'The sheer magnitude of the catastrophe will only become fully realized in the coming days,' UN aid chief Martin Griffiths says.
KHERSON, Ukraine – About 42,000 people are at risk from flooding in Russian- and Ukrainian-controlled areas along the Dnipro River after a dam collapsed, as the UN aid chief warned of “grave and far-reaching consequences.”on Tuesday, June 6, which sent floodwaters across a swath of Ukraine’s war zone and forced thousands to flee.
No deaths were initially reported, but US spokesperson John Kirby said the flooding had probably caused “many deaths”. Buses, trains and private vehicles were marshalled to carry people to safety in about 80 communities threatened by flooding. The Kazkova Dibrova zoo on the Russian-held riverbank was completely flooded and all 300 animals were dead, a representative said via the zoo’s Facebook account.
The dam supplies water to a wide area of southern Ukrainian farmland, including the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula, as well as cooling the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
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