🔴 Breaking: Forces have blown up the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine, unleashing flooding across war zone Ukraine and Russia have blamed each other for the destruction of the dam, although neither accounts have been independently verified
has also accused Ukraine of destroying the Kakhovka dam, with a representative for the country describing it as a terrorist attack.Unverified videos on social media showed a series of intense explosions around the Kakhovka dam. Other videos showed water surging through the remains of the dam with bystanders expressing their shock.
It holds an 18 km3 reservoir which also supplies water to the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, and to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which is also under Russian control. President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram: “Russian terrorists. The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam only confirms for the whole world that they must be expelled from every corner of Ukrainian land.”The head of Ukraine’s presidential administration said on Tuesday that Russia’s destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine represents an “ecocide”.
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