accused Russian forces of blowing up the major dam and hydroelectric power station in a part of southern Ukraine they control, threatening a massive flood that could displace hundreds of thousands of people, and ordered residents downriver to evacuate. Russian news agency Tass ...
Ukraine accused Russian forces of blowing upthe Kakhovka damand hydroelectric power station, which sits on the Dnieper River in an area Moscow has controlled for more than a year. Russian officials blamed Ukrainian bombardment in the contested area, where the rive...
Ukraine’s agriculture ministry warned, “The fields in the south of Ukraine next year can turn into deserts.” In the Moscow-controlled city of Oleshky, Lera, 19, told The Associated Press the first floor of her home was flooded.
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In this image taken from video released by the Ukrainian Presidential Office, water runs through a breakthrough in the Kakhovka dam in Kakhovka, Ukraine, on June 6, 2023.Ukrainian Presidential Office via AP Zelenskyy earlier wrote on the Telegram messaging app that the Russians were "terrorists"...
Ukraine said the deluge would leave hundreds of thousands of people without access to drinking water, swamp tens of thousands of hectares of agricultural land and turn at least 500,000 hectares deprived of irrigation into "deserts". Bjerde said the new damage assessment wou...
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The dam, part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, is in the city of Nova Kakhovka in Ukraine's Kherson region, currently occupied by Russia. It is 30 metres (98 feet) tall and 3.2 km (2 miles) long. Construction was started under Soviet leader Josef Stalin and finished under Niki...
The wall of a major dam in a part of southern Ukraine has collapsed, triggering floods, endangering Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and threatening drinking water supplies.
The destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine is swiftly evolving into long-term environmental catastrophe. It affects drinking water, food supplies and ecosystems reaching into the Black Sea. Experts say the long-term consequences will be gene