Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine is blown, unleashing flood of water-VIDEO

Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine is blown, unleashing flood of water-VIDEO
# 06 June 2023 09:05 (UTC +04:00)

A vast Soviet-era dam in southern Ukraine was blown on Tuesday, unleashing a flood of water across the war zone, according to both Ukrainian and Russian forces, APA reports citing Reuters..

Unverified videos on social media showed a series of intense explosions around the Kakhovka dam. Other videos showed water surging through the remains of the dam with bystanders expressing their shock.

The dam, 30 metres (yards) tall and 3.2 km (2 miles) long, was built in 1956 on the Dnipro river as part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant.

It holds an 18 km3 reservoir which also supplies water to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.

"The scale of the destruction, the speed and volumes of water, and the likely areas of inundation are being clarified," the Ukrainian military said on Facebook.

The Russian installed head of the Kherson region said evacuation near the dam has begun and that water would reach critical levels within five hours.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called an emergency meeting to deal with the crisis.

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