Volunteers rescue cats and dogs from the flooded streets of the Ukrainian city of Kherson, after a major breach at a nearby dam caused significant flooding.
A satellite image shows Nova Khakovka Dam in Kherson region, Ukraine June 5, 2023.A section of a strategically vital Ukrainian dam and hydroelectric powerplant under Russian control has been blown up.The Nova Kakhovka dam, which was built in 1956 and traverses the enormous Dnipro River in southern Ukraine, suffered an explosion overnight at approximately 2 a.m.
Zelenskyy said crews are working hard to save as many people from the nearby areas and provide drinking water to those who received it from the Kakhovka reservoir.A local resident makes her way through a flooded road after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed overnight, in Kherson, Ukraine, June 6, 2023. Ukraine accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam and hydroelectric power station in a part of southern Ukraine that Russia controls, risking environmental disaster.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy holds an emergency meeting with top state and regional officials concerning the Kakhovka dam destruction, in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 6, 2023."If and when the level goes below 12.7 metres, the ZNPP will no longer be able to pump water from the reservoir to replenish the reserves at the site.
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