Putin ‘blows up huge dam on Ukraine frontline’ posing threat to nuke plant and risking mass flooding as locals flee | The Sun

RUSSIAN forces have blown up a huge dam on the frontline risking mass flooding and sending residents fleeing, Ukraine has claimed.

Kyiv has accused Vladimir Putin's troops of destroying the Kakhovka dam, located in the Russian-occupied part of southern Ukraine, on the Dnieper River, and called for locals to evacuate the area.

The Ukrainian Interior Ministry wrote on Telegram that the Kakhovka dam, had been blown up, and called for residents of the ten villages on the sides of the river and parts of Kherson to flee.

"The Kakhovka (dam) was blown up by the Russian occupying forces," the South command of Ukraine's Armed Forces said on its Facebook page.

"The scale of the destruction, the speed and volumes of water, and the likely areas of inundation are being clarified."

Footage circulating on social media shows a big part of the dam missing as water is surging through the remains.

The Head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Prokudin said on a Telegram video that the Russian army has committed yet another act of terror, and warned that water will reach critical levels within five hours.

Zelenskyy moved to convene an emergency meeting of the country's security and defense council following the dam explosion, the councils secretary, Oleksiy Danilov, wrote on Twitter.

The damage to the dam poses a massive threat to the nearby Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.

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