Drone footage published by The Guardian shows the scale of the disaster caused by the breach of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric dam across the Dnipro River in Ukraine’s Kherson region, flooding entire villages.
It will be recalled that on Tuesday morning, the dam of the Nova Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, built in 1965, which is of great importance for the energy infrastructure of Ukraine, collapsed. Floodwaters inundated villages and towns, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people, as well as entire fields.
Today we were in the village of Bilozerka, west of Kherson, where two dozen houses were under water. The flood came after 24 hours, but some were submerged within an hour and a half. Lost property for life, many pets and animals pic.twitter.com/wUf8lu7iKa
— Dan Sabbagh (@dansabbagh) June 8, 2023
Ukraine blamed Russia, which has controlled the facility since the February 2022 invasion, for undermining the dam.
Russia, in turn, accused Ukraine of destroying the dam to hide the “failure” on the battlefield.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday reacted for the first time to the destruction of the Novaya Khakovka dam, calling it an “ecological and humanitarian disaster” and accusing Kyiv of a “barbaric act”, writes Reuters.
Source: Hot News
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