KHERSON: Floodwaters in southern Ukraine were expected to crest on Wednesday (Jun 7), with tens of thousands of civilians fleeing in peril from the destruction of a vast dam that both sides called an act of wartime sabotage. Residents waded through flooded streets carrying children on their shoulders, dogs
KHERSON: Floodwaters in southern Ukraine were expected to crest on Wednesday , with tens of thousands of civilians fleeing in peril from the destruction of a vast dam that both sides called an act of wartime sabotage.
Ukraine says 42,000 people are at direct risk from flooding and hundreds of thousands will be left without access to drinking water.“If the water rises for another metre, we will lose our house," said Oleksandr Reva, in a village on the bank, who was moving his family's belongings into the abandoned home of a neighbour on higher ground.
Russia imposed a state of emergency in the parts of Kherson province it controls, where many towns and villages lie in the lowlands below the dam. Residents there have told Reuters by telephone that Russian troops patrolling the streets in waders were threatening civilians who approached.The consequences of the disaster will be felt for decades in southern Ukraine.
"The whole world will know about this Russian war crime," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address, calling it"an environmental bomb of mass destruction".
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