A drone video released later on the 5th showed “a huge gap in the Nova Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine and a large amount of flood water gushing out.”
CNN reported that Ukraine’s Southern Operational Command (Operational Command South) confirmed the damage to the dam in a post on its official Facebook on the 6th, saying that it was “assessing the scale of the damage and calculating possible flooding areas.”
Vladimir Leontiev, the mayor of Novokhovka supported by Russia, also said in an interview with Russian state media on the 6th that “the upper part of the dam was damaged due to 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 outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, there has been fear of discovery such events.
Both 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 operation against Kiev.
It is not yet clear who is responsible for the damage caused by the dam.
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2023-06-06 04:18:09
