FEARS are growing that fleeing Russian troops “deliberately destroyed” the Kherson dam in order to release an “apocalyptic” wall of water over the city. Satellite images appear to show sections of …
The bursting of the dam, built during the Soviet era, would inflict catastrophic destruction to Kherson and put hundreds of thousands of lives in danger to the people living downstream due to extensive flooding.as Putin’s troops withdrew from Kherson to the East bank of the Dnipro river.
's forces triumphantly swept into Kherson, a strategically important city seized by Putin's forces after they invaded Ukraine at the beginning of the war.said Kherson was "ours" as footage showed troops being greeted by jubilant civilians in a highly symbolic moment. Russia would leave the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine, which were annexed by Russia after sham referendums earlier this year.
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