Three people have been confirmed dead in floods caused by the collapse of the Novaya Kakhovka dam, and Zelenskyi said it was impossible to predict how many people would die in Russian-occupied territories, calling for a “clear and swift world response” to support victims Ukraine said the disaster would leave hundreds of thousands people without access to drinking water, will flood tens of thousands of hectares of agricultural land and turn at least 500,000 hectares without irrigation into “desert”.

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 470, LIVETEXT:

07:41 The Russians prevented civilians in the occupied territories from fleeing the flood or rescuing others, writes the Kyiv Independent, which spoke to several people in the areas controlled by Moscow’s troops.

Not only that the evacuation of civilians announced by Moscow did not take place, most of those who want to escape by waterways have been stopped. Only people with Russian passports were allowed to leave, many people confirmed.

According to estimates, about 80 settlements and 16 thousand people were in dangerous zones. The lower eastern bank of the Dnieper, occupied by Russia, was the most affected.

07:02 Five ambassadors of the USA, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania (special representative) and Ukraine visited Alexandroupolis. For what reason? Official port visitor. Unofficially and according to some data, it is reported about the “vertical corridor”.

01:13 VIDEO Zelenskyi: The situation in the occupied part of the Kherson region is truly catastrophic. The occupiers simply threw people – no rescue, no water, on the roofs of flooded settlements

00:16 Austria supports UN atomic energy missions for 1 million euros: “Russian roulette with the safety of Ukrainian nuclear power plants must stop immediately”

A brief summary of recent events:

• NATO members may send troops to Ukraine, the ex-head of the alliance warns. A group of NATO countries may show a desire to send troops to Ukraine if member states, including the United States, do not provide tangible security guarantees to Kyiv at the summit in Vilnius, former secretary general of the alliance Anders Rasmussen said.
• Michael Kofman, director of the Russian studies program at the American think tank CNA, expressed doubts that the destruction of the dam would have “a significant impact on Ukraine’s military operations.”
• In an interview with HotNews.ro, the director of the Institute of Green Economy in Ukraine and the representative of the National Institute of Strategic Studies in Kyiv, Vyacheslav Potapenko, told how toxic substances could get into the Black Sea as a result of the Nova explosion. Dam Kakhovka.
• The British Prime Minister says that it is not clear whether Russia is to blame for the Kakhovskaya Dam breach. Rishi Sunak said he could not say “definitively” whether Russia was responsible for the blast, but British security services were “working on it”.
• Mines are more dangerous than ever after the destruction of the Novaya Kakhovka dam / Red Cross: “This is a disaster. We used to know where the dangers were, now we don’t know anymore.”
• Zelenskyi accuses the UN and the Red Cross of hasty intervention in Ukraine. The president of Ukraine said he was “shocked” by what he said was no help from the UN and the Red Cross after the dam collapsed.
• Erdoğan called Zelensky and Putin and offered them to create an international investigative commission in the case of the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam.
• Ukraine called the destruction of the Kakhovskaya dam a disaster for agriculture: tens of thousands of hectares are flooded, more than 500 thousand hectares will be abandoned due to lack of irrigation.
• A Russian official says that destroying the dam gives them a military advantage. Volodymyr Saldo, the Russian-appointed governor of occupied Kherson, said that the flood “worked in such a way that operationally and tactically it is in favor of the Russian troops.”
• The Ministry of Defense of Russia announced on Wednesday that “Ukrainian saboteurs” blew up a section of the Tolyatti-Odesa ammonia pipeline in the Kharkiv region on Monday, which supplies fertilizers from Russia to Ukraine.
• President of the Republic of Moldova Maia Sandu: “The Chisinau government no longer humiliates itself in front of the Kremlin, as before”
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that US F-16 fighter jets could be armed with nuclear bombs and warned that giving them to Kiev would escalate the conflict.

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• Wednesday’s events related to Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro