Dam breach flooding leaves thousands in Ukraine with no water

Updated On: 09 June, 2023 08:13 AM IST | Kherson | Agencies

Many left homeless, crops ruined, land mines displaced

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Rescue workers evacuate an elderly woman in Kherson, Ukraine. Pic/AP

Authorities rushed to rescue hundreds of stranded people and supply drinking water to areas flooded by the collapsed Kakhovka hydroelectric dam in southern Ukraine, amid a growing humanitarian and ecological disaster along a river on the front line in the war. With humanitarian and ecological disasters still unfolding, it’s already clear that tens of thousands of people have been deprived of drinking water, many are homeless, crops are ruined, land mines have been displaced, and the stage is set for long-term electricity shortages.

5 reported dead in Russia-occupied city

Five residents of a Russian-occupied city next to a breached dam have died in massive flooding triggered by the catastrophe, its Kremlin-appointed mayor, Vladimir Leontyev said on Thursday in the first official report of deaths from one of the largest environmental crises since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Officials say at least 4,000 people have been evacuated from both the Russian and Ukrainian-controlled sides of the Dnieper River.

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