Ukraine has accused Russia of blowing up a major dam on the Dnieper River in the southern region of Kherson and ordered the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from areas threatened by massive flooding downstream.
Finland will expel nine diplomats from the Russian Embassy in Helsinki for "acting in an intelligence capacity," the Finnish president's office said on June 6.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the bursting of the Nova Kakhovka dam as "an environmental bomb of mass destruction" and said only liberating the entire country could guarantee protection against new "terrorist" acts.
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