president zelensky has warned the destruction of the dam risks leaving hundreds of thousands of people without healthy water. extensive damage has been caused to buildings and farmland. the united nations has said the breach of the dam is one of the most significant incidents of damage to civilian infrastructure since the start of the russian invasion, and will have grave and far reaching consequences. moscow has denied destroying the dam, which it controls, instead blaming ukrainian shelling. the pictures you can see there are from one of the towns, these are coming to us live as a sum of the residents look on and i think one of the rescue boats, dinghies, hasjustarrived, and i think one of the rescue boats, dinghies, hasjust arrived, and and i think one of the rescue boats, dinghies, hasjustarrived, and i presume this is part of the evacuations that have been taking place for hours. our first report comes from jon donnison. breached, the nova kakhovka dam, now almost unreco
dnipro river and into the black sea and causing devastation as it goes, notjust in those communities where people are living but also agricultural, we are getting briefings now from the ukrainian government saying that they anticipate a really catastrophic impact on agriculture in what is the breadbasket of ukraine, with irrigation systems completely reflect as a result of what has happened. so much depended on the dam, on the reservoir, the drinking supplies, the agricultural water supplies, the agricultural water supplies, that all of that system was in control of, and all of that has been destroyed, and it is likely that we will be seeing the consequences of all of that for a long while to come. find consequences of all of that for a long while to come. consequences of all of that for a long while to come. and there has been devastation long while to come. and there has been devastation and long while to come. and there has been devastation and you - long while to come. and th
devastation as it goes, notjust in those communities where people are living but also agricultural, we are getting briefings now from the ukrainian government saying that they anticipate a really catastrophic impact on agriculture in what is the breadbasket of ukraine, with irrigation systems completely reflect as a result of what has happened. completely wrecked as a result of what has happened. so much depended on the dam, on the reservoir, the drinking supplies, the agricultural water supplies, that all of that system was in control of, and all of that has been destroyed, and it is likely that we will be seeing the consequences of all of that for a long while to come. as far as the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, obviously it is europe s largest, is that still stable? well, most of it is off line, but it is vitally important