The chaos continued in southern Ukraine Friday as security forces, emergency workers and regular citizens risked life and limb to evacuate people from a vast area flooded by the destruction of a crucial dam in Russian held territory.
in Russian held territory. At least several square miles along a southern stretch of the Dnipro river, lined by industry and farmland, have been inundated by floodwater that's swirling with debris, fuel and other contaminants.of blowing up the Nova Kakhovka hydro-power plant and dam"from inside" early Tuesday morning, unleashing a torrent of water from the massive reservoir it held back onto the surrounding Kherson region.
"In more than 40 settlements, life is broken," said the president, who's top diplomat earlier this week accused Russia of blowing up the dam in a"Russia, whose forces had occupied the key piece of infrastructure for months, claimed it was Ukrainian troops that damaged the dam, but Moscow has offered no evidence to back up the claim.
In the city of Kherson, which Ukraine reclaimed from Russian forces last year, and the flooded areas around it, rescue efforts in the disaster zone have been severely hampered by the fact that it is also an active war zone.
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