A torrent of water burst through a massive dam on the Dnipro River that separates Russian and Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, flooding a swathe of the war zone, forcing villagers to flee and prompting finger-pointing from both sides.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video address that his prosecutors had already approached the International Criminal Court about the dam incident. Earlier, he claimed on Telegram that Russian forces blew up the power plant from inside.
Ukrainian officials reported well over 1,000 people rescued from Kherson city along with residents evacuated from flooded towns and villages. It was not immediately clear if anyone died but U.S. spokesman John Kirby said it had probably caused “many deaths”.“Our local school and stadium downtown were flooded,” Lidia Zubova, 67, told Reuters as she waited for a train out of Ukrainian-controlled Kherson city after abandoning her inundated village of Antonivka. “The road was completely flooded, our bus got stuck.”
Residents in Russian-controlled Nova Kakhovka told Reuters that some had decided to stay despite being ordered out. 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. “Russian terrorists. The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam only confirms for the whole world that they must be expelled from every corner of Ukrainian land,” Zelenskiy wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
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