ALBAWABA - Russian-occupied Nova Kakhovka dam collapse caused floods in several villages on the Dnipro River.
According to Ukrainian officials, floods engulfed several villages on the Dnipro River following the dam collapse which Ukraine accused Russia of attacking.
Russian RIA Novosti Agency reported that the water level rose 5 meters in the Nova Kakhovka Dam.
"About 16,000 people are in the critical zone on the right bank of the Kherson region," Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson military administration, said on social media.
Earlier on Tuesday, Ukrainian forces claimed that Russians blew up the Nova Kakhovka water dam. On the other hand, The upper part of the key infrastructure was “destroyed as a result of a strike,” the Russian-installed mayor of Novaya Kakhovka, Vladimir Leontyev, confirmed to RIA Novosti.
Ukrainian Prime Minister mentioned that about 80 villages are threatened with flooding after the explosion of the Nova Kakhovka Dam.
Furthermore, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy commented on the Khakovka dam collapse and said: "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."
