Ukraine has accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam and hydroelectric power station in a part of southern Ukraine that Moscow controls, threatening what officials called an 'ecological disaster.'
Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam and hydroelectric power station in a part of southern Ukraine that Moscow controls, threatening what officials called an "ecological disaster" due to possible massive flooding. Russian officials countered that the Kakhovka dam was damaged by Ukrainian military strikes.
Russian officials countered that the Kakhovka dam, on the Dnipro river, was damaged by Ukrainian military strikes in the contested area. Ukraine's nuclear operator Energoatom said in a Telegram statement that the blowing up of the dam "could have negative consequences" for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is Europe's biggest, but wrote that for now the situation is "controllable."
A total collapse in the dam would wash away much of the left bank and a severe drop in the reservoir has the potential to deprive the nuclear plant of crucial cooling, as well as dry up the water supply in northern Crimea, according to the Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Working Group, an organization of environmental activists and experts documenting the war's environmental effects.
Videos posted online began testifying to the spillover. One showed floodwaters inundating a long roadway; another showed a beaver scurrying for high ground from rising waters.Evacuations reportedly underway
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