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 Kyiv and Moscow called an act of war
that Kyiv and Moscow 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. Officials said that parts of the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv and Kherson regions in the south and southeast of Ukraine would suffer from disrupted water supplies.
Residents blamed the disaster on Russian troops who controlled the dam from their positions on the opposite bank."They hate us," Reva said."They want to destroy a Ukrainian nation and Ukraine itself. And they don't care by what means because nothing is sacred for them." Targeting dams in war is explicitly banned by the Geneva Conventions. Neither side has presented public evidence demonstrating who was to blame.
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