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agency, citing emergency services, said about 2,700 houses were
flooded after the destruction of the dam on Tuesday and almost
1,300 people had been evacuated. At least seven people were
missing, Moscow-backed officials said.
The destruction of the Moscow-controlled Nova Kakhvovka dam on
the Dnipro River flooded a large part of the frontline in the
Kherson region. Ukraine and Russia have blamed each other for
the dam collapse.
About 42,000 people were at risk from flooding in Russian and
Ukrainian controlled areas along the Dnipro River, said
Ukrainian officials, as the United Nations aid chief warned of
"grave and far-reaching consequences".
TASS cited Nova Kakhvovka mayor Vladimir Leontiev as seven
people were known to be missing. More than 900 people were
evacuated on Tuesday from the Russian-controlled city of some
45,000 people on the left bank of the Dnipro River.
Ukrainian officials said that some 80 communities in the overall
Kherson region were at risk of flooding.
The governor of the Kherson region, Oleksandr Prokudin, said on
Wednesday that 1,582 houses had been flooded on the right bank
of the river and some 1,457 people had been evacuated overnight.
Earlier, Prokudin said that one civilian person was killed and
one injured as a result of Russia's shelling of the region and
the city of Kherson itself.
The Kremlin on Tuesday accused Ukraine of sabotaging the dam to
cut off a key source of water for Crimea and distract attention
from a "faltering" counter-offensive against Russian forces.
Ukraine said Russia committed a deliberate war crime in blowing
up the Soviet-era Nova Kakhovka dam, which powered a
hydroelectric station.
(Reporting by Olena Hamash in Kyiv and Lidia Kelly in Melbourne;
Editing by Himani Sarkar and Michael Perry and Guy
Faulconbridge)
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