captions by vitac www.vitac.com ukraine and russia accusing each other of blowing up a critical dam leading to massive flooding and evacuations. now calling for a u.n. security council meeting and new sanctions against moscow. and the pga tour changing course after a area of insults and lawsuits, the tour and liv golf are changing courses. some are livid. we re following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. we do begin in ukraine with these pictures of a dam breach. you can see water gushing through the dam. this is a critical spot on the
drinking glass to zero in on a man they say sexual assaulted four women more than ten years ago. that story and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. we begin with a major dam breach in ukraine. you can see water gushing through the dam, which is in a critical spot on the dnipro river and on the front lines of the war. officials confirmed more than a thousand homes in the region have been flooded. one ukrainian official saying 16,000 people on the west bank of the river are in a critical zone. russia on the other hand is telling residents that there is no threat in the area. new satellite photos show the dam had just been damaged days before the breach. these pictures actually show the road that ran across the dam, and it was fully intact on may
more critical point in the war. plus the pga tour is joining forces with saudi backed liv golf. the just announced partnership has shaken up the sporting world with many from golfers to lawmakers livid that this is moving forward. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. we are beginning with a major dam breech in ukraine. you can see water gushing through this dam here located in a critical area along the dnipro river. more than a thousand homes have flooded. a ukrainian official says 16,000 people on the river s west bank are in what he is calling a critical zone. russian officials on the other hand are telling residents there is no threat. both sides are blaming each other. ukraine says this was blown up
to begin our coverage in the flooded region. reporter: masses of water gushing from the gaping hole in the destroyed nova kakhovka dam in russian controlled territory here in south ukraine. massive flooding quickly inundating both shores of the mighty dnieper river impacting areas controlled by ups and. about the russians. as you can see, there s a massive rescue effort going on here. local authorities are using heavy trucks and boats to get as many people out of the zone as they can. this 65-year-old was stranded in her home with her cat for hours, fearing for her life. now, i m not scared, she says, but there it was scary. why, i ask. because of the water, the water came, and you don t know from where it comes and where it will go. the authorities here say they ve evacuated hundreds of people
myself in and i just stayed there for hours. hours. with the wind blowing and the water gushing over my head. it was just a long time. and then the wind shifted back, so it started, the surge was the other way so it was starting to get lower. so i don t know how many hours it was, but i was able to get down and get across, get to the building, get up to the second floor, found myself a spot where it was where the wind wasn t and the rain and i got into a corner and i stayed there all night. stan, what was going through your mind as you were spending hours clinging to a palm tree or a bush. just alone clinging to this. what was going through your mind? everything.