Debris of buildings destroyed by the collapse of the Novaya Kakhovka dam in Ukraine’s Kherson region has reached the shore of the Black Sea in Odesa, People’s Deputy of Ukraine Oleksiy Goncharenko said, CNN reports, News.ro reports. .

streets of Kherson were floodedPhoto: LIBKOS / AP / Profimedia

Goncharenko shared the video on social networks, which, according to him, was filmed on the Dolphin beach near the city university.

“There is the port of Odesa. And look: this is a house. The house was washed ashore,” he said in the video.

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This roof of an ordinary peaceful house from Novaya Kakhovka or Kherson, which ended up on the beach in Odessa! Look at the scale of the disaster! This is the destruction of the civilian population, this is genocide! This is the destruction of nature and ecology, this is ecocide! pic.twitter.com/xXXuShxx2Q

— Oleksiy Goncharenko (@GoncharenkoUa) June 9, 2023

The deputy showed pieces of the house, including the roof and a wall, saying they were “brought in by the sea”. It is approximately 100 kilometers from the Kherson HPP to the port city on the Black Sea.

The collapse of the dam is one of the biggest industrial and environmental disasters in Europe in recent decades. An area of ​​at least 600 square kilometers in the south of the Kherson region was flooded. The natural disaster destroyed entire villages, flooded agricultural lands, deprived tens of thousands of people of electricity and drinking water, and caused enormous damage to the environment.

It is not yet possible to say whether the dam collapsed because it was deliberately targeted, or whether the breach could have been caused by a structural fault. Russia and Ukraine blame each other for causing this disaster.

On Friday, Ukraine’s Internal Security Service said it had intercepted a phone conversation that proves Russian forces blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant and dam in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine.

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