Ukraine warfare: Flooding fears after main dam breach in Russia-controlled Kherson area

A dam within the Russian managed a part of southern Ukraine has been broken by an explosion, resulting in flooding within the space already hit by months of battle.

Both Ukrainian and Russian officers blamed one another for destroying the Kakhovka dam within the Kherson area.

Ukraine’s navy mentioned that Russian forces blew up the dam.

“The Kakhovka [dam] was blown up by the Russian occupying forces,” the South command of Ukraine’s armed forces mentioned on Tuesday on its Facebook web page.

“The scale of the destruction, the speed and volumes of water, and the likely areas of inundation are being clarified.”

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blamed “Russian terrorists” in a Telegram put up, saying “the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam only confirms for the whole world that they must be expelled from every corner of Ukrainian land.”

“Not a single meter should be left to them, because they use every meter for terror. It’s only Ukraine’s victory that will return security. And this victory will come. The terrorists will not be able to stop Ukraine with water, missiles or anything else,” he wrote.

The Ukrainian Interior Ministry known as for residents of 10 villages on the Dnipro river’s proper financial institution and elements of town of Kherson to assemble “essential documents and pets, turn off appliances and leave”.

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Oleksandr Prokudin, the top of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, mentioned in a video posted to Telegram that “the Russian army has committed yet another act of terror”, and warned that water will attain “critical levels” inside 5 hours.

Russian state information company TASS mentioned the dam, managed by Russian forces, had been destroyed after being struck reportedly by firing from an Olkha a number of missile launcher whereas a Russian-installed official mentioned it was a “terrorist attack”.

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The dam was inbuilt 1956 on the Dnipro river as a part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric energy plant and provides water to the Crimean peninsula and to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which can also be beneath Russian management.

Ukraine’s state atomic company mentioned the dam’s destruction posed a menace the nuclear plant however that the state of affairs on the facility was presently beneath management.

TASS additionally cited a Moscow-backed official within the Zaporizhzhia area saying there was no “critical danger” but to the nuclear plant, and that specialists from the International Atomic Energy Agency have been monitoring the state of affairs.