Drone video released later on the 5th showed “a huge breach in the Nova Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine and a huge amount of floodwater gushing out.”
CNN reported that Ukraine’s Southern Executive Command (South Executive Command) confirmed the damage to the dam in a post on its official Facebook on the 6th, saying it was “assessing the extent of the damage and calculating possible flood areas.”
Vladimir Leontiev, the Russian-backed mayor of Novokhovka, also said in an interview with Russian state media on the 6th that “the upper part of the dam was damaged because of the attack.”
Analysts pointed out that the torrent flowing from the dam in the film has the potential to cause major damage to the city of Kherson (Kherson) and other populated areas along the Dnipro River (Dnipro River), and revealed that since the beginning of the Russia. -Ukrainian war, was afraid to discover such events.
Russia and Ukraine have repeatedly accused each other of planning to use explosives to damage the dam since October 2022. civilian deaths”, Ukraine in turn claimed that Russia had been planning to blow up the dam in a false flag campaign against Kiev.
It is not yet clear who is responsible for the damage caused by the dam.
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