Ukraine is dealing with a humanitarian and ecological disaster as flooding engulfs much of Kherson after major damage to the Kakhovka dam.

US National Security Council says burst dam likely to have caused ‘many deaths’. Zelenskiy: 'evacuation of people' and 'urgent provision of drinking water' top priorities in flooded Kherson 10:51 Volodymyr Zelenskiy has given a read-out on Telegram of his latest meeting with ministers and officials over the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam,

A torrent of water burst through a massive dam on the Dnipro River that separates Russian and Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, flooding a swathe of the war zone and forcing villagers to flee.

Ukraine and Russia blame each other for the collapse of the massive dam on Tuesday, which sent floodwaters across a swathe of the war zone and forced thousands to flee. Ukraine said Russia committed a deliberate war crime in blowing up the Soviet-era Nova Kakhovka dam,

A major Soviet-era dam in the Russian controlled part of southern Ukraine was breached on Tuesday, unleashing floodwaters across the war zone in what both Ukraine and Russia said was an intentional attack by the other's forces.