As aerial footage circulated on social media, showing most of the damn and hydroelectric infrastructure on it washed away and a massive surge of water heading downstream, the Ukrainian army’s Southern Operational Command on Facebook accused ‘Russian occupation troops’.
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The Ukrainian army called for people living downstream to evacuate in the face of catastrophic flooding.
The Nova Kakhovka dam is 30 metres high, holding back a vast reservoir of 18m cubic metres of water. It sits about 20 miles upstream from Ukrainian-held Kherson, but modelling suggests if blown it would affect the islands in the Dnipro River delta and the Russian-held southern bank.
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