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
has been shelled all these months. the situation clearly in the city is critical, there are some parts of it which are a lot worse than the pictures that you are looking at now. i have seen scenes from an area where the dnipro and kakhovka rivers join, which are basically underwater, the water has reached rooftop levels, so there are neighbourhoods of kherson that are completely submerged. and that very much echoes the scene elsewhere along the dnipro, where, in these little communities on either side of the river, you are seeing similar scenes, with the river suddenly massively expanded as a result of this huge volume of water that is flooding down from what was a vast reservoir above the dam. that reservoir above the dam. that reservoir is emptying and sending great quantities of water down the
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 unrecognisable. water, seemingly the latest weapon in the war in ukraine. and it s downstream on the dnipro river where the damage has been done. in ukrainian controlled territory to the west, officials say 17,000 people need to flee their homes. another 25,000 in the russian occupied east. in kherson, under ukrainian control, there are fears the flooding could become catastrophic. and it s not the only worry. it s dangerous, says catalina. she s not wrong. bomb blast. russia pulled out of
bridge that went over it and thought that that was a problem for them. and that may be why the dam and the road over it were destroyed. paul adams, road over it were destroyed. paul adams. we road over it were destroyed. paul adams, we will road over it were destroyed. paul adams, we will leave road over it were destroyed. paul adams, we will leave it road over it were destroyed. paul adams, we will leave it there for now. forviewers adams, we will leave it there for now. for viewers who are joining us there, the live scene of rescue workers are in kherson and that is part of the operations to evacuate residents. we have been told that around 42,000 people are now at risk of flooding on both sides of the dnipro river following the destruction of the dam, and just to put this into context for you and to remind you why the un security council have been commenting on this, the geneva convention explicitly, or part of the geneva conventions explicitly ban targeting dams in war due t
just going live to ukraine and this is kherson, part of the region flooded by the dam on monday night into tuesday. it has wide implications, it supplied cooling water for the nuclear plant and i had a hydropower station there and we have had power loss, oil leak through the flood waters and affecting up to 42,000 people. we are still trying to get a hold of the communities and towns affected. we also know that a huge impact that will have, follow on consequences for europe and possibly the rest of the world is the impact on agriculture and the crops. of