A major Soviet-era dam in the Russian controlled part of southern Ukraine has been breached, unleashing floodwaters across the war zone in what both Ukraine and Russia said was an intentional attack by the other’s forces.
Unverified videos on social media showed water surging through the remains of the dam with bystanders expressing their shock, sometimes in strong language.
Water levels raced up by metres in a matter of hours.
The dam, 30 metres long and which holds water equal to the Great Salt Lake in the U.S. state of Utah, was built in 1956 on the Dnipro river as part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant.