The consequences may turn out to be catastrophic. Several towns and villages in both Russian-occupied and Ukrainian-controlled parts of the Kherson area are now at acute risk of flooding
in the early morning were so strong that windows trembled a full 80km away. By daybreak on June 6th the impact was clear: blasts had punched a large hole in the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern, and there had also been severe damage to the hydro-electric station that it powers. The bridge alongside the dam was gone; and the fierce waters of the Dnieper were racing downstream. The consequences may turn out to be catastrophic.
Western military sources say they believe the Russians were “almost certainly” responsible. A breach of this size would require the pre-positioning of explosives, and the Russians have been in control of the dam since the early days of the war. Eyewitnesses say that much of Nova Kakhovka, the Russian-occupied settlement immediately downstream from the dam, has already been flooded. Mass evacuations carried out by the Russians in the lead-up to Ukraine’s long-awaited counter-offensive meant that few civilians were living there at the time of the incident. It is unclear how many civilians remain in the most vulnerable sections further downstream.
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