JUST IN: Ukraine has accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam in southern Ukraine — alerting residents along the Dnipro River to evacuate due to potential flooding.
Ukrainian soldiers fire at the Russian air target on the frontline near Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, June 5, 2023. Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam in a part of southernthey control, alerting residents further along the Dnipro River to evacuate and warning of flooding downstream. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called an emergency meeting to deal with the crisis.
Footage from what appeared to be a monitoring camera overlooking the dam that was circulating on social media purported to show a flash, explosion and breakage of the dam. Zelenskyy moved to convene an emergency meeting of the country’s security and defense council following the dam explosion, the council’s secretary, Oleksiy Danilov, wrote onUkraine and Russia have previously accused each other of targeting the dam with attacks, and last October Zelenskyy predicted that Russia would destroy the dam in order to cause a flood.
In February, water levels were so low that many feared a meltdown at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, whose cooling systems are supplied with water from the Kakhovka reservoir held up by the dam.
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