Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes and an ecological disaster has been unleashed on southern Ukraine by the collapse of a major hydroelectric dam on the Dnipro River, which Kyiv said was blown up by Russia in a desperate attempt to ward off a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, declared the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam as an act of terrorism and the “largest man-made environmental disaster in Europe in decades”.
Video. Appears confirmed. This could be catastrophic for both Russian and Ukrainian settlements along the Dnipro river. It may also cause problems with cooling for the ZPP Nuclear plant.
Water levels behind the damn were reportedly at a 30-year high. https://t.co/vQ8S7DXsQc pic.twitter.com/jvT6exHr6U
— Tommy Liberty (@RucksackRadio) June 6, 2023
