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Politico (6 June 2023)

BY GABRIEL GAVIN, NICOLAS CAMUT AND VERONIKA MELKOZEROVA

Those living near the Nova Kakhovka hydroelectric plant — approximately 16,000 people — have been urged to leave their homes.

Explosions at a major hydroelectric plant in eastern Ukraine have unleashed flooding across the war-torn region, threatening the lives of civilians, officials in Kyiv said early Tuesday.

In a statement posted Tuesday morning, Ukraine's Southern Operational Command said "Russian occupation troops blew up the dam" at Nova Kakhovka, in the Kherson region. "The scale of destruction, speed and amount of water, and likely areas of flooding are being determined."

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