Ukrainian authorities are rushing supplies of drinking water to areas affected by flooding from a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine. They also are weighing where they might resettle residents who r…
KHERSON, Ukraine — Authorities rushed drinking water to areas flooded by a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine on Wednesday as they managed a growing humanitarian and ecological disaster along a river that forms part of the front line in the 15-month war.
About 3,000 people have been evacuated from both the Russian and Ukrainian-controlled sides of the river, officials said, with the true scale of the disaster yet to emerge in an affected area that was home to more than 60,000 people. Russian-appointed authorities in the occupied parts of the Kherson region reported 15,000 flooded homes.
A day after the dam’s collapse, it remained unclear what caused it, with both sides blaming each other. Some experts said it might have been due to wartime damage and neglect, although others argued that Russia might have destroyed it for military reasons. Either way, concluded analyst Michael Kofman, “Russia is responsible, either by virtue of action or by virtue of the fact that it controlled the dam.
“The destruction of the dam and the reservoir is a man-made strike on the environment, after which nature will have to recover for decades,” Zelenskyy said in English in a video posted on YouTube. He said it was impossible to predict how much of the chemicals and oil products stored in flooded areas will end up in rivers and the sea.
In the Moscow-controlled city of Oleshky, a 19-year-old named Lera told The Associated Press that the first floor of her home was flooded. Civilians in the city of Kherson clutched personal belongings as they waded through knee-deep water or rode rubber rafts. Video on social media showed rescuers carrying people to safety, and what looked like the triangular roof of a building floating downstream.
In a call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Putin alleged that Kyiv authorities had escalated “war crimes, openly using terrorist methods and staging acts of sabotage on the Russian territory,” the Kremlin said in its account of the call.
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