NEW: Satellite images show the sheer scale of the destruction caused by the collapse of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine. 📷 Maxar Technologies / Planet Labs
Huge swaths of land are underwater in a largely rural part of Ukraine, with entire towns now isolated and facing dangers, including dislodged land mines and waterborne diseases.
“The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station will lead to the fact that fields in the south of Ukraine may turn into deserts next year,” the Ukrainian Agriculture Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.A granary close to the burst dam in Nova Kakhovka on Monday, left, and Wednesday, right.Fields and settlements in the town of Krinky on May 15, left, and Wednesday, right.Some 231 square miles of the Kherson region is flooded, according to the regional governor, Oleksandr Prokudin.
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