Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine is blown, unleashing flood of water

By Reuters: An huge Soviet-era dam throughout the Russian-controlled part of southern Ukraine was blown on Tuesday, unleashing a flood of water all through the wrestle zone, consistent with every Ukrainian and Russian forces.

Both sides blamed the other for destroying the dam.

Unverified motion pictures on social media confirmed a group of intense explosions throughout the Kakhovka dam. Other motion pictures confirmed water surging by way of the stays of the dam with bystanders expressing their shock, sometimes in sturdy language.

The dam, 30 metres (yards) tall and three.2 km (2 miles) prolonged, was in-built 1956 on the Dnipro River as part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric vitality plant.

It holds an 18 km3 reservoir which moreover offers water to the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014, and to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which will be beneath Russian administration.

Ukraine’s military said that Russian forces blew up the dam.

“The Kakhovka (dam) was blown up by the Russian occupying forces,” the South command of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said on Tuesday on its Facebook net web page.

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

Russian data companies said the dam, managed by Russian forces, had been destroyed in shelling whereas a Russian-installed official said it was a terrorist assault – Russian shorthand for an assault by Ukraine.

Reuters was unable to immediately affirm the battlefield accounts from each side.