Flooding turns Odesa’s coastline into ‘garbage dump and animal cemetery’ after dam collapse
CNN — Beaches in the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa have been closed off after filthy waters from a collapsed dam washed downstream, posing a “genuine threat” to local residents. The disease control center also warned that ammonia levels in the Dnipro-Buh Estuary “exceeded the maximum permissible concentrations.” Homes are seen underwater in a flooded neighborhood in Kherson, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for international support to help rescue victims of the dam collapse in Russian-occupied territory and accused Moscow of not providing “any real help to the people in the flooded areas.” Russia-backed officials in occupied parts of Ukraine have said the government will provide “maximum” support to the areas affected, and that humanitarian aid was being distributed. A flooded residential area following the Nova Kakhovka dam collapse in the town of Hola Prystan, in the Kherson region, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on June 8. A neighborhood of Kherson, Ukraine, remains flooded Saturday, June 10, following the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam days earlier.
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