Ukraine accuses Russia of shelling rescuers amid dam evacuations
1 year, 6 months ago

Ukraine accuses Russia of shelling rescuers amid dam evacuations

Al Jazeera  

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russian forces of shelling Ukrainian emergency workers who are trying to rescue people from floodwaters caused by the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam. “Our military and special services are rescuing people as much as it is possible, despite the shelling.” Zelenskky described conditions in Russian-occupied parts of the Kherson region as “absolutely catastrophic” and called on international humanitarian organisations, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, to immediately deploy to and help people abandoned in occupied areas now hit by flooding from the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam on Tuesday. “It is even impossible to establish for sure how many people in the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson region may die without rescue, without drinking water, without food, without medical care,” he added. Addressing the issue of the dam’s destruction as Kyiv and Moscow trade blame, the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington, DC-based think tank, said Russia has “a greater and clearer interest in flooding the lower despite the damage to their own prepared defensive positions”. Believing that Ukraine had already begun its counteroffensive, the ISW said, Russian forces may have thought breaching the dam could cover their possible retreat and delay Ukraine’s advance.

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Russia’s explosion of a huge Ukrainian dam had surprising effects
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Russia’s explosion of a huge Ukrainian dam had surprising effects

The Economist  

Europe | Après le déluge Russia’s explosion of a huge Ukrainian dam had surprising effects A year after the blast and flood, Ukrainians disagree over whether to rebuild Kakhovka Your browser does not support this video. 10 km Nuclear power plant Zaporizhia ↙ Kakhovka dam After the dam’s collapse the former lake bed, an area of 1,870 square km, resembled …

Thousands are evacuated after floods break a dam in the Russian city of Orsk
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Thousands are evacuated after floods break a dam in the Russian city of Orsk

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Floods caused by rising water …

Residents of Russia’s Orenburg forced to evacuate as ‘critical’ flooding causes dam burst
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Residents of Russia’s Orenburg forced to evacuate as ‘critical’ flooding causes dam burst

The Independent  

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Russia evacuates 4,000 people after dam bursts, floods near Kazakh border
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Russia evacuates 4,000 people after dam bursts, floods near Kazakh border

Al Jazeera  

Authorities warn of dangerous water levels on the Ural river and open an investigation into the dam breach. Russia said it has evacuated more than 4,000 people in the Orenburg region near the Kazakhstan border due to flooding after a dam burst. The Orenburg governor’s office said on Saturday that “4,208 people, including 1,019 children” had been evacuated and more …

Demining Ukraine after two years of war
10 months ago

Demining Ukraine after two years of war

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “When you go outside, there is danger waiting for …

Ukraine says it now has a foothold on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River near Kherson city
1 year, 1 month ago

Ukraine says it now has a foothold on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River near Kherson city

Associated Press  

KYIV, Ukraine — A top Ukrainian official said its troops have established a beachhead on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River near Kherson, an important advance in overcoming one of Russia’s most significant strategic barriers in the war. Ever since Russian forces left the city of Kherson and the territory around it in November 2022, the only area they …

Ukraine says it’s gained a foothold on eastern bank of Dnipro River near Kherson
1 year, 1 month ago

Ukraine says it’s gained a foothold on eastern bank of Dnipro River near Kherson

LA Times  

Ukrainian marines move along the Dnipro River at the front line near Kherson, in southern Ukraine, in October. A top Ukrainian official said Ukrainian troops have established a beachhead on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region, an important advance in bridging one of Russia’s most significant strategic barriers in the war. Ever since Russian forces …

Russia blocks UN aid for Kakhovka dam collapse victims
1 year, 6 months ago

Russia blocks UN aid for Kakhovka dam collapse victims

Al Jazeera  

Massive flooding caused by dam breach has contaminated drinking water and led to bans on swimming and eating seafood. The dam was breached on June 6, unleashing a wave of water from the Dnipro River on communities across southern Ukraine including Russian-occupied parts of the Kherson region. “The UN will continue to do all it can to reach all people …

Russia had means, motive and opportunity to destroy Ukraine dam, drone photos and information show
1 year, 6 months ago

Russia had means, motive and opportunity to destroy Ukraine dam, drone photos and information show

Associated Press  

BERISLAV, Ukraine — Russia had the means, motive and opportunity to bring down a Ukrainian dam that collapsed earlier this month while under Russian control, according to exclusive drone photos and information obtained by The Associated Press. “Better for us, because it would have ended very badly for them, attacking there.” In the days leading up to the dam’s destruction …

Ukraine claims recapture of fourth village as counteroffensive operations roll on
1 year, 6 months ago

Ukraine claims recapture of fourth village as counteroffensive operations roll on

The Hindu  

Ukrainian military officials said on June 12 that their troops had retaken another southeastern village from the Russian forces, as part of a stepped-up counteroffensive campaign against Moscow's more than 15-month invasion of Ukraine. Russian authorities, meanwhile, have said their troops have largely held their ground along the over 1,000-km arc of front line area along the southern and eastern …

Ukraine claims recapture of seven villages in early stages of counteroffensive
1 year, 6 months ago

Ukraine claims recapture of seven villages in early stages of counteroffensive

Associated Press  

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian troops have retaken seven villages spanning 90 square kilometers from Russian forces in the past week, the deputy defense minister said Monday as the early stages of Kyiv’s counteroffensive notched small successes. “The battles are tough, but our movement is there, and that is very important,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address.” He …

Ukraine’s dam collapse is both a fast-moving disaster and a slow-moving ecological catastrophe
1 year, 6 months ago

Ukraine’s dam collapse is both a fast-moving disaster and a slow-moving ecological catastrophe

Associated Press  

KHERSON, Ukraine — The destruction of the Kakhovka Dam was a fast-moving disaster that is swiftly evolving into a long-term environmental catastrophe affecting drinking water, food supplies and ecosystems reaching into the Black Sea. “All this territory formed its own particular ecosystem, with the reservoir included,” said Kateryna Filiuta, an expert in protected habitats for the Ukraine Nature Conservation Group. …

Ukraine’s dam collapse is both a fast-moving disaster and a slow-moving ecological catastrophe
1 year, 6 months ago

Ukraine’s dam collapse is both a fast-moving disaster and a slow-moving ecological catastrophe

LA Times  

Kherson, Ukraine, remained flooded Saturday. The destruction of the Kakhovka dam is swiftly evolving into a long-term environmental catastrophe, affecting drinking water, food supplies and ecosystems reaching to the Black Sea. The destruction last week of the Kakhovka dam was a fast-moving disaster that is swiftly evolving into a long-term environmental catastrophe affecting drinking water, food supplies and ecosystems reaching …

Ukraine's dam collapse is both fast-moving disaster and slow-moving ecological catastrophe
1 year, 6 months ago

Ukraine's dam collapse is both fast-moving disaster and slow-moving ecological catastrophe

The Hindu  

The destruction of the Kakhovka Dam was a fast-moving disaster that is swiftly evolving into a long-term environmental catastrophe affecting drinking water, food supplies and ecosystems reaching into the Black Sea. “All this territory formed its own particular ecosystem, with the reservoir included,” said Kateryna Filiuta, an expert in protected habitats for the Ukraine Nature Conservation Group. “The canal that …

Ukraine hails first territory recaptured in counteroffensive
1 year, 6 months ago

Ukraine hails first territory recaptured in counteroffensive

Al Jazeera  

‘First results’ of counterattack praised as Ukraine’s troops claim to take back villages in the eastern Donetsk region while Russia denies gains. “We’re seeing the first results of the counteroffensive actions, localised results,” Valeriy Shershen, spokesperson for Ukraine’s “Tavria” military sector, said on television. The occupied southeast is seen as a probable priority for Kyiv’s forces because recapturing territory there …

UN aid chief says Ukraine faces `hugely worse’ humanitarian situation after the dam rupture
1 year, 6 months ago

UN aid chief says Ukraine faces `hugely worse’ humanitarian situation after the dam rupture

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The humanitarian situation in Ukraine is “hugely worse” than before the Kakhovka dam collapsed, the U.N.'s top aid official warned Friday. Undersecretary-General Martin Griffiths said an “extraordinary” 700,000 people are in need of drinking water and warned that the ravages of flooding in one of the world’s most important breadbaskets will almost inevitably lead to lower grain …

Ukrainians trapped by Nova Kakhovka dam floods forsaken by Russian occupiers, as fingers point to saboteurs
1 year, 6 months ago

Ukrainians trapped by Nova Kakhovka dam floods forsaken by Russian occupiers, as fingers point to saboteurs

ABC  

There's a tidal mark on Viktoria's trousers and tears in her eyes. "The Russian occupiers don't even make an effort to help these people, they have left them to perish," Denys Shmyhal said in a video message to the UN and Red Cross posted on social media. "We appeal to you to take charge of evacuating people from the territory …

Families scramble for food and dry places to sleep after a dam collapses in Russian-occupied Ukraine
1 year, 6 months ago

Families scramble for food and dry places to sleep after a dam collapses in Russian-occupied Ukraine

Associated Press  

KYIV, Ukraine — Alyona Shkrygalova’s family kept a rubber boat for their daily needs along the broad Dnieper River. “Russian soldiers are standing at the checkpoints, preventing from approaching the most-affected areas and taking away the boats,” said one volunteer, Yaroslav Vasiliev. Russian President Vladimir Putin “has no plans at the current moment” to visit affected Moscow-occupied areas, Kremlin spokesman …

Ukraine War: Deadly shelling in flood-hit region after Zelensky visit
1 year, 6 months ago

Ukraine War: Deadly shelling in flood-hit region after Zelensky visit

Firstpost  

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the area on Thursday after floods inundated dozens of villages and parts of the regional capital, Kherson. Ukraine and Russia accused each other of shelling rescuers and evacuees in the flood-hit Kherson region as Moscow said its forces fought off a Ukrainian offensive in another part of the front line. US President Joe Biden said …

In Russia-occupied Kherson, flood aid slow to come: Residents
1 year, 6 months ago

In Russia-occupied Kherson, flood aid slow to come: Residents

Al Jazeera  

Those in occupied areas are reportedly trapped in floodwaters as Ukrainians in Kyiv-controlled Kherson receive help. “Russian soldiers are standing at the checkpoints, preventing from approaching the most affected areas and taking away the boats,” said one volunteer, Yaroslav Vasiliev. “They are afraid of saboteurs, they suspect everyone.” So 19-year-old Yektarina But and the three elderly people with her simply …

Russia shells Ukrainian city inundated by dam collapse after Zelenskyy visit
1 year, 6 months ago

Russia shells Ukrainian city inundated by dam collapse after Zelenskyy visit

Associated Press  

KHERSON, Ukraine — Russian forces Thursday shelled a southern Ukrainian city inundated by flooding in a catastrophic dam collapse, Ukrainian officials said, forcing a suspension of some rescue efforts hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went to the area to assess the damage. Upriver from the dam, a supply of water used to cool Europe’s largest nuclear power plant was nearing …

Deadly shelling in flood-hit Ukraine region after Zelensky visit
1 year, 6 months ago

Deadly shelling in flood-hit Ukraine region after Zelensky visit

The Hindu  

Ukraine and Russia accused each other of shelling in the flood-hit Kherson region on Thursday even as rescuers raced to save people stranded after the destruction of a Russian-held dam unleashed a torrent of water. Shortly after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the southern city of Kherson, Kyiv said a Russian strike there injured eight people. The Dnipro has steadily …

Before-and-after satellite images show profound toll of Ukraine dam collapse
1 year, 6 months ago

Before-and-after satellite images show profound toll of Ukraine dam collapse

Associated Press  

KHERSON, Ukraine — Before-and-after images of the area downstream from a dam that collapsed Tuesday vividly show the extent of the devastation of a large, flooded swathe of southern Ukraine. Paired with exclusive drone footage of the Ukrainian dam and surrounding villages occupied by Russia, the before-and-after satellite images illustrate the profound changes wrought by the disaster. Ukraine has warned …

AP Exclusive: Drone footage of collapsed dam shows devastation, no evidence to back Russian claims
1 year, 6 months ago

AP Exclusive: Drone footage of collapsed dam shows devastation, no evidence to back Russian claims

Associated Press  

KHERSON, Ukraine — Exclusive drone footage of the collapsed Ukrainian dam and surrounding villages under Russian occupation showed the ruined structure falling into the flooded river, hundreds of submerged homes, greenhouses, even a church — and no evidence of an attack from above, as Russia alleges. Ukraine has warned since last October that the hydroelectric dam was mined by Russian …

Deluge from ruptured Ukrainian dam is latest tragedy for Kherson residents since Russian invasion
1 year, 6 months ago

Deluge from ruptured Ukrainian dam is latest tragedy for Kherson residents since Russian invasion

Associated Press  

KHERSON, Ukraine — Yurii, a former Ukrainian soldier, knows all too well about living in his rickety attic: It was here, during Russia’s eight-month occupation of the southern city of Kherson, that he hid to avoid capture by the invaders. Like many other determined and defiant Ukrainians, Yurii has faced disaster after disaster since Russian forces swept into Ukraine over …

Flooding from dam break strands hundreds and leaves thousands with no drinking water in Ukraine
1 year, 6 months ago

Flooding from dam break strands hundreds and leaves thousands with no drinking water in Ukraine

Associated Press  

KHERSON, Ukraine — Authorities rushed to rescue hundreds of people stranded on rooftops and supply drinking water to areas flooded by a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, in a growing humanitarian and ecological disaster along a river that forms part of the front line in the 15-month war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with officials on how to …

Russians shooting at rescuers in flooded areas following dam collapse, Zelensky says
1 year, 6 months ago

Russians shooting at rescuers in flooded areas following dam collapse, Zelensky says

CNN  

CNN — Russian forces have been shooting at Ukrainian rescuers trying to reach flooded areas in the Kherson region that are under Russian control, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday. He said residents in occupied areas of Kherson “have been abandoned by the Russians” and “left to perish” as homes “vanish beneath the water.” A neighborhood of Kherson, Ukraine, remains …

Russia-Ukraine war: Satellite images show damage to critical dam in southern Ukraine
1 year, 6 months ago

Russia-Ukraine war: Satellite images show damage to critical dam in southern Ukraine

India Today  

Satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies and Planet Labs show critical infrastructures, port facilities and industrial areas in the southern city of Kherson before and after they were flooded on Tuesday. Maxar has captured satellite images covering more than 2,500 km square between Nova Kakhovka and the Dniprovska Gulf southwest of Kherson city on the Black Sea, illustrating numerous towns …

Zelenskyy visits area flooded by destroyed dam as five reported dead in Russian-occupied city
1 year, 6 months ago

Zelenskyy visits area flooded by destroyed dam as five reported dead in Russian-occupied city

India Today  

Five residents of a Russian-occupied city next to a breached dam have died in massive flooding triggered by the catastrophe, its Kremlin-appointed mayor said Thursday, the first official report of deaths from one of the largest environmental crises since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than 15 months ago. Vladimir Leontyev, the Russian-appointed mayor of Nova Kakhovka, told Russian state TV …

Nova Kakhovka dam disaster aftermath leaves about 600 square kilometres of Ukraine's Kherson underwater
1 year, 6 months ago

Nova Kakhovka dam disaster aftermath leaves about 600 square kilometres of Ukraine's Kherson underwater

ABC  

Russia has shelled Ukraine's Kherson region where about 600 square kilometres is underwater after the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam. Key points: Ukraine says 68 per cent of the flooded territory is on the Russian-occupied left bank of the Dnipro River Evacuations are continuing "despite the immense danger and constant Russian shelling" Russian media reports about 14,000 houses have …

Russia shells Ukrainian city inundated by dam collapse after Zelensky visits area
1 year, 6 months ago

Russia shells Ukrainian city inundated by dam collapse after Zelensky visits area

LA Times  

People ride in a boat through a neighborhood in Kherson, Ukraine, that was flooded after a dam was breached. Russian forces Thursday shelled a southern Ukrainian city that was inundated in a catastrophic dam collapse, Ukrainian officials said, forcing a suspension of some rescue work hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky went to the area to assess flood damage. Kyiv accused …

Stunning before-and-after satellite images show toll of Ukraine dam collapse
1 year, 6 months ago

Stunning before-and-after satellite images show toll of Ukraine dam collapse

LA Times  

This combination of satellite photos shows Oleshky, Ukraine, before and after flooding. Before-and-after images of the area downstream from a dam that collapsed Tuesday vividly show the extent of the devastation of a large, flooded section of southern Ukraine. A satellite image shows Kakhovka dam and station in southern Ukraine on June 5, before its collapse. Paired with exclusive drone …

Vladimir Putin calls destruction of dam a catastrophe, Ukraine says it's made advances in Bakhmut
1 year, 6 months ago

Vladimir Putin calls destruction of dam a catastrophe, Ukraine says it's made advances in Bakhmut

ABC  

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the destruction of the Kakhovka dam an "environmental and humanitarian catastrophe" during a call with Turkish counterpart Tayyip Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Kremlin cited him as saying on Wednesday. Key points: Ukraine and Russia trade blame for the destruction of the dam Tens of thousands at risk from flooding in Russian and Ukrainian controlled areas …

Maps and satellite images show Ukraine villages flooded after Nova Kakhovka dam collapses
1 year, 6 months ago

Maps and satellite images show Ukraine villages flooded after Nova Kakhovka dam collapses

ABC  

The water in Ukraine's Nova Kakhovka dam has surged downstream, flooding villages, threatening food and water supplies, and changing Russia's war. The section of the Dnipro River where the dam wall was destroyed has become an important part of the front of Russia's war — a line that stretches for more than 1,000 kilometres. Maxar said imagery of more than …

Bodies found floating after Kakhovka dam collapse: Zelenskyy
1 year, 6 months ago

Bodies found floating after Kakhovka dam collapse: Zelenskyy

Al Jazeera  

The Ukrainian president paints a bleak picture of destruction and says Russian forces are shooting at rescuers. Dead bodies are floating in flooded areas after the Nova Kakhovka dam was destroyed, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Speaking to the US-based news site Politico on Wednesday, Zelenskyy also accused Russian forces of shooting at Ukrainian rescuers as they attempted to …

Ukrainian dam breach: What’s happening and what’s at stake
1 year, 6 months ago

Ukrainian dam breach: What’s happening and what’s at stake

Associated Press  

KYIV, Ukraine — The fallout from the breach of a dam in southern Ukraine is wreaking havoc on lives, livelihoods and the environment amid the war. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said nearly 12,000 bottles of water and 10,000 water purification tablets were distributed to five municipalities in Kherson and in Mykolaiv, where most of evacuees are staying. The office of …

Explained: How destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam puts more than 40,000 people at risk
1 year, 6 months ago

Explained: How destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam puts more than 40,000 people at risk

Firstpost  

The destruction of the Soviet-era Nova Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine has put over 42,000 people at risk of flooding. As Ukraine accused Moscow’s forces of committing “ecocide,” the UN Secretary-General warned of “grave and far-reaching consequences.” Both sides blame each other Ukraine and Russia blame each other for the collapse of the massive dam on …

Floodwaters engulf more areas of southern Ukraine after dam breach as hundreds evacuated
1 year, 6 months ago

Floodwaters engulf more areas of southern Ukraine after dam breach as hundreds evacuated

The Hindu  

Floodwaters from a collapsed dam kept rising in southern Ukraine on June 7, forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes in a major emergency operation that brought a dramatic new dimension to the war with Russia, now in its 16th month. Ukraine and Russia accused each other of blowing up a dam and causing widespread flooding in southern Ukraine, …

Ukrainians make desperate escape from floods after dam collapse as shelling echoes overhead
1 year, 6 months ago

Ukrainians make desperate escape from floods after dam collapse as shelling echoes overhead

Associated Press  

KHERSON, Ukraine — As shelling from Russia’s war on Ukraine echoed overhead, dozens of evacuees on an island in the Dnieper River scurried onto the tops of military trucks or into rafts to flee rising floodwaters caused by a dam breach upstream. The scrambled evacuation by boat and military truck from an island neighborhood off the southern Ukrainian city of …

‘It’s a nightmare’: Ukrainians decry the Kakhovka dam blast
1 year, 6 months ago

‘It’s a nightmare’: Ukrainians decry the Kakhovka dam blast

Al Jazeera  

Already at risk of the threat of an escalating war, Ukrainians in the south on either side of the Dnipro river are now facing flooded villages, homelessness and exposure to infections after a huge dam collapse. “If the water rises for another metre, we will lose our house,” said Oleksandr Reva said, who was moving family belongings into the abandoned …

Ukraine says Nova Kakhovka dam blast will not stop military plans
1 year, 6 months ago

Ukraine says Nova Kakhovka dam blast will not stop military plans

Al Jazeera  

Ukrainian president Zelenskyy called the destruction of the Kakhovka dam an act of ‘mass environmental destruction’ by Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called the collapse of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine an act of “mass environmental destruction” and said the attack on such critical infrastructure would not alter Ukraine’s plans to retake territory from occupying Russian forces. Russian …

Ukraine dam collapse: 42,000 at risk from flooding, several make desperate escape; UN warns of 'grave consequences'
1 year, 6 months ago

Ukraine dam collapse: 42,000 at risk from flooding, several make desperate escape; UN warns of 'grave consequences'

India Today  

Hours after a major dam and hydroelectric power plant in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine suffered a collapse early Tuesday, a mass evacuation process began for around 42,000 people who were at risk from flooding. As Ukraine accused Moscow’s forces of committing an act of “ecocide”, the United Nations aid chief warned of "grave and far-reaching consequences." Ukraine said Russia committed a …

Satellite images show Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam after destruction
1 year, 6 months ago

Satellite images show Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam after destruction

Al Jazeera  

On Tuesday, footage captured water gushing from the Nova Kakhovka dam in a Russian-controlled area of southern Ukraine. The dam’s reservoir also supplied water to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to cool its six nuclear reactors. The International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said the plant should have enough water to cool its reactors for “some months” from a …

Ukraine has endured months of artillery. Now a destroyed dam has sent many residents fleeing
1 year, 6 months ago

Ukraine has endured months of artillery. Now a destroyed dam has sent many residents fleeing

ABC  

On the morning the Nova Kakhovka dam was blown up in southern Ukraine, Hanna Zarudnia woke to both shelling and flooding. They have dealt with the horrors of the Russian occupation, an almost constant shelling since the city's liberation, and now being flooded out of their homes after the Nova Kakhovka dam was blown up. The Kremlin says it had …

Nova Kakhovka dam blast: Is Russia trying to freeze the war?
1 year, 6 months ago

Nova Kakhovka dam blast: Is Russia trying to freeze the war?

Al Jazeera  

Russia could have blown up the dam in an effort to stall Ukraine’s counteroffensive, experts say. “Unsurprisingly, Ukraine took a time out in the offensive.” ‘A Poem of the Sea’ Seven decades ago, the emergence of the Nova Kakhovka dam and a sea of fresh water behind it was hailed as a “great construction project of Communism”. The dam’s collapse …

Floodwaters swamp more areas of Ukraine as hundreds flee after dam breach
1 year, 6 months ago

Floodwaters swamp more areas of Ukraine as hundreds flee after dam breach

LA Times  

A woman is evacuated from a flooded neighborhood in Kherson, Ukraine, after the Kakhovka dam upstream was breached. Authorities on Wednesday rushed supplies of drinking water to flooded areas from a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine as officials weighed where they might have to resettle thousands of residents who relied on the breached reservoir on the Dnipro River that forms …

Major dam collapses in southern Ukraine, flooding villages as Moscow and Kyiv trade blame
1 year, 6 months ago

Major dam collapses in southern Ukraine, flooding villages as Moscow and Kyiv trade blame

Associated Press  

KHERSON, Ukraine — A major dam in southern Ukraine collapsed Tuesday, flooding villages, endangering crops and threatening drinking water supplies as both sides in the war scrambled to evacuate residents and blamed each other for the destruction. Russian and Ukrainian officials used terms like “ecological disaster” and “terrorist act” to describe the torrent of water gushing through the broken dam …

'Environmental bomb of mass destruction': Ukraine's Zelensky on dam attack
1 year, 6 months ago

'Environmental bomb of mass destruction': Ukraine's Zelensky on dam attack

Hindustan Times  

President Volodymyr Zelensky described the bursting of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine on Tuesday as "an environmental bomb of mass destruction" and said only liberating the entire country could guarantee against new "terrorist" acts. Read here: Hundreds of thousands at risk from Ukraine's Kakhovka dam destruction: UN "Such deliberate destruction by the Russian occupiers and other structures of the …

Hundreds of thousands at risk from Ukraine's Kakhovka dam destruction: UN
1 year, 6 months ago

Hundreds of thousands at risk from Ukraine's Kakhovka dam destruction: UN

Hindustan Times  

The UN warned Tuesday that the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine could spark an environmental disaster and have dire humanitarian consequences for hundreds of thousands of people. Read here: Russian-occupied Ukraine city 'flooded' after Nova Kakhovka dam breach An attack on the major Russian-held dam in southern Ukraine unleashed a torrent of water that flooded a small city, …

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