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At least 29 people are missing and dozens of communities lack access to clean water in southern Ukraine. The authorities are grappling with the disaster as a Ukrainian counteroffensive gets underway.
Burst dam threatens humanitarian, environmental disaster By Matthias Williams, Mark Trevelyan and Gloria Dickie The breach of a huge dam on the front-line Dnipro river has muddied the picture for a much-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russian invaders and threatens an environmental disaster for civilians living in the war zone. Kyiv…
Animals are most vulnerable to the fast-moving water, as rescue efforts are largely focused on people. The flooding is likely to make arable lands unfit for agriculture for years to come due to increased salinity in the soil, as well as contamination of irrigation canals.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that counteroffensive and defensive actions were underway against Russian forces.
The civilian population of the Kherson region, which first survived the brutal Russian occupation and later lived alongside daily shelling and air attacks, is now bound to face what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described as "an environmental bomb of mass destruction."