Washington warned there would be “likely many deaths” as Moscow and Kyiv traded blame for ripping a gaping hole in the Kakhovka dam. theSun theSundaily conflict Kakhovka Kyiv Ukraine Russia
A local resident stands with his bicycle in a flooded street in the town of Kherson, following flooding caused by damage sustained at the Kakhovka HPP dam, on June 6, 2023. AFPPIX: Ukraine was evacuating thousands of people from flooded areas Wednesday after an attack on a major Russian-held dam unleashed a torrent of water, inundating two dozen villages and sparking fears of a humanitarian disaster.
“There is shooting, now there is flooding,“ said Lyudmyla, who had loaded a washing machine onto a cart attached to an old Soviet car. “The evacuation will continue tomorrow and in the coming days -- by bus and train,“ presidential adviser Oleksiy Kuleba said late Tuesday.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of detonating an “environmental bomb of mass destruction”, saying authorities expected up to 80 settlements to be flooded and urging the world to “react”.
The United States “cannot say conclusively what happened at this point,“ National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters.
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