Special correspondent AlexCrawfordSky reports on the implications of the major dam breach in dam in a Russian-controlled part of southern Ukraine. Read more:
Falling water levels could have 'scary' consequences for nuclear power plantThis morning we reported how the UN's nuclear watchdog said there was"no immediate nuclear safety risk" at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which is cooled by water from the breached Kakhovka dam.
"This is as scary as it is important," said the analyst, adding the water level was 16.4 metres at 8am today.The water also serves six reactors and while all but one is in cold shutdown to limit risk,"they still pose a very significant threat", Dr Dorfman added. "So far, we've been very lucky - but luck's not a workable strategy when dealing with catastrophic nuclear risk."A zoo located on the bank of the Dnipro River said its 300 animals were killed after it was flooded following the dam blast."The park was mined and it was impossible to evacuate the animals," it said.
Shoigu also called the dam blast a"terror attack" and claimed Ukraine blew up the dam"in order to redeploy units from Kherson to [an] offensive zone". Evgeny Popov, a politician in the Russian parliament, told BBC Radio 4's World At One that Ukraine would"profit" from the damage to the dam and said Russia is evacuating 22,000 people from the area.
Ukraine has"no material interest in blowing the dam" because it could flood 80 cities, displace hundreds of thousands of people and damage its electricity supply, the ISW said previously. But Russian forces"continue to shell the territory where evacuation measures are being carried out," the interior minister said.Dam breach could be 'on a scale like Chernobyl', Ukrainian official says, as he calls Russian claims 'nonsense'
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