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Ukrainian officials say floodwaters could rise another metre in Kherson before peaking today after the destruction of a dam that both sides called an act of wartime sabotage.

Thomson ReutersStreets are shown flooded in Kherson, Ukraine on Wednesday after the Kakhovka dam was blown up. Residents of southern Ukraine, some who spent the night on rooftops, braced for a second day of swelling floodwaters.Residents waded through flooded streets carrying children on their shoulders, dogs in their arms and belongings in plastic bags while rescuers used rubber boats to search areas where the waters reached above head height.

Rescuers evacuate local residents from a flooded area on Wednesday after the Nova Kakhovka dam was breached in Kherson, Ukraine. A resident named Valery, 53, who didn't give his family name, shows his house submerged in water following the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka, on Wednesday in the Kherson region, Ukraine.

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