Kyiv and Moscow accuse each other’s troops of shelling evacuation areas
Ukrainian officials said about 600 sq km of the Kherson region – famous throughout the country for its melons and other produce – was now under floodwater, most of it on the Russian-occupied eastern bank of the Dnipro.
The ministry said it expected tens of thousands of hectares of farmland near the Dnipro to be flooded as water pours through the destroyed dam, and for dozens of vast irrigation systems that relied on the now emptying reservoir above the dam to be left dry. “Without the Kakhovka reservoir, not only farmers and water users will suffer, but also sources of drinking water supply in populated areas ... The death of fish, both young and adult, is [also] already being recorded. The spawning period has just ended, and due to the drop in the water level, the spawn will dry out.”
The dam breach also threatens to disrupt water flow to Crimea, the Black Sea peninsular that Russian occupied in 2014, which relies on supplies from a canal connected to the Dnipro. Moscow-installed governor Sergei Aksyonov said the region did not face a water crisis, but some 3,200 hectares of rice fields could be affected.
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