Kherson residents flee flooded homes after Nova Kakhovka dam attack

Thousands of people have been fleeing their flooded homes after the collapse of a major hydroelectric dam on the Dnipro River. People were seen wading through knee-deep water as they carried their belongings and pets. The governor of the Kherson region, Oleksandr Prokudin, said evacuated people would be taken to Kherson city and then by train to Mykolaiv and other Ukrainian cities, including Khmelnytskyi, Odesa, Kropyvnytskyi and Kyiv. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, declared the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam an ’environmental bomb of mass destruction’. The disaster will have a catastrophic effect on the ecology of the region and will sweep mines from the banks of the Dnipro into villages and farmland downstream