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Image source, Reuters A huge dam in the Russian-controlled area of southern Ukraine has been destroyed, unleashing a flood. Ukraine's military and Nato have accused Russia of blowing up the dam, while Russia has blamed Ukraine. Thousands of people have been evacuated from low-lying areas either side of the river…

KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities rushed to rescue hundreds of people stranded on rooftops and supply drinking water to areas flooded by a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, in a growing humanitarian and ecological disaster along a river that forms part of the front line in the 15-month…

Kyiv, Ukraine. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Every military action communicates something. The recent drone strikes in Moscow during which three residential and high-rise buildings were targeted certainly did so. This unprecedented attack arguably communicated to Muscovites that Vladimir Putin's "special military operation" is nothing but a euphemism for a war…

ANKARA — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held separate phone calls with Ukrainian and Russian counterparts on Wednesday, offering to set up a joint mechanism to investigate a Ukrainian dam collapse.  The Nova Kakhovka dam, one of the largest in the country, lies on the Dnipro River in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine.…

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This general view shows a partially flooded area near The Antonovskiy Bridge (REAR) on the outskirts of Kherson, on June 6, 2023, following damage sustained at Kakhovka hydroelectric dam. ― AFP pic Follow us on Instagram, subscribe to our Telegram channel and browser alerts for the latest news you need…

By MICHELLE NICHOLS, Reuters Published June 7, 2023 6:47am UNITED NATIONS - The United States said on Tuesday it was "not certain" who was to blame for a burst dam in Ukraine, but it would not make sense for Ukraine to have done this to its own people and territory,…

The destruction of the dam in southern Ukraine has put thousands of homes at risk. Photo: Libkos/Associated PressBy Matthew Luxmoore and Bojan Pancevski Updated June 6, 2023 3:37 pm ET MYKOLAIV, Ukraine—A major dam and power station in a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine were destroyed Tuesday, narrowing Ukraine’s options for…

Satellite images taken on Tuesday afternoon by Maxar Technologies showed extensive flooding in southern Ukraine with the region's Nova Kahkovka dam and hydroelectric station largely destroyed. The critical dam, which lies along the Dnipro River in the parts of Ukraine's Kherson region now held by Russia, collapsed on Tuesday, flooding…

Troops’ use of patches bearing Nazi emblems risks fueling Russian propaganda and spreading imagery that the West has spent a half-century trying to eliminate. An image of a Ukrainian soldier wearing a patch containing the Totenkopf symbol, an example of Nazi iconography, that was posted on the Twitter account of…