The massive Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine was blown up overnight on Tuesday, flooding large parts of the territory with torrents of water ahead of an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive, according to Ukrainian and Russian forces, who blamed each other to attack.
Oleksandr Prokudyn, governor of Ukraine’s Kherson region, said Russian forces blew up the dam, straddling frontlines across the Dnipro river, and ordered the evacuation of several villages along the Ukrainian-controlled west. bank.
Videos posted on social media showed water pouring into a large hole in the dam.
Vladimir Leontiev, Russian-appointed mayor of the occupied town of Nova Kakhovka, claimed that Ukrainian forces shelled the dam and caused it to collapse, according to Tass.
