Ukraine battle: Flooding fears after main dam hit by shelling in Russia-controlled Kherson area

A dam within the Russian managed a part of southern Ukraine has been broken by shelling, resulting in flooding within the space already hit by months of battle.

Both Ukrainian and Russian officers blamed one another for destroying the Kakhovka dam within the Kherson area.

Ukraine’s army mentioned that Russian forces blew up the dam.

“The Kakhovka (dam) was blown up by the Russian occupying forces,” the South command of Ukraine’s Armed Forces mentioned on Tuesday on its Facebook web page.

“The scale of the destruction, the speed and volumes of water, and the likely areas of inundation are being clarified.”

The Ukrainian Interior Ministry referred to as for residents of 10 villages on the Dnipro River’s proper financial institution and components of the town of Kherson to assemble “essential documents and pets, turn off appliances and leave”.

Oleksandr Prokudin, the top of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, mentioned in a video posted to Telegram that “the Russian army has committed yet another act of terror”, and warned that water will attain “critical levels” inside 5 hours.

Russian news companies mentioned the dam, managed by Russian forces, had been destroyed by Ukrainian shelling whereas a Russian-installed official mentioned it was a “terrorist attack”.

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The dam was in-built 1956 on the Dnipro river as a part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric energy plant and provides water to the Crimean peninsula and to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which can be underneath Russian management.

Russia’s TASS state news company cited a Moscow-backed official within the Zaporizhzhia area saying there was no “critical danger” but to the nuclear plant.