The extent of the damage from a Tuesday explosion that damaged a major dam in southern Ukraine is still unclear, but thousands have already been forced out of their homes.
Russian and Ukrainian leaders have accused one another of launching the attack that punctured the Nova Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River near Kherson. Massive waves poured through the damaged structure, which once held 18 billion cubic meters of water, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"Massive flooding. Large-scale evacuations. Environmental devastation. Destruction of newly planted crops," Guterres added. U.N. relief chief Martin Griffiths noted that “the sheer magnitude of the catastrophe” in Kherson is not yet known, though there will be “grave and far-reaching consequences for thousands of people in southern Ukraine, on both sides of the frontline, through the loss of homes, food, safe water, and livelihoods.
The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday that the “entire eastern portion of the dam and much of the hydro and utilities infrastructure was swept away,” while the dam’s “structure is likely to deteriorate further over the next few days, causing additional flooding.”
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