territory to the north. the dam is a significant resource, supplying water to a host of communities as well as to europe s largest nuclear power station at zaporizhzhia. this dam is over the dnieper river, between areas controlled by russian and ukrainian armies in the south of ukraine. this video tweeted by ukraine s president zelensky shows the breached kakhovka hydro electric dam. russia claims ukraine is behind the damage, while president zelensky blames russia. translation: the whole world will know about this russian - war crime, the crime of genocide. such deliberate acts by the russian occupiers of the dam and other structures such as the power plant is an environmental bomb of mass destruction. for the sake of its own security the world should know now that russia cannot get away with such terror. our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse has spent the day travelling to the affected area. a breach of a barrier designed to protect. this is the major kakhovka dam, fai
in this trial. hello, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we start with that major development in ukraine where thousands of people have been told to evacuate their homes after kyiv accused russian forces of blowing up a major dam, threatening a catastrophic flood. this video tweeted by ukraine s president zelensky shows the breached kakhovka hydro electric dam. he has accused russia of blowing up the dam to slow its offensive by making it harder to cross the dnipro river. russia says ukraine is to blame. this dam is over the dnieper river, between areas controlled by russian and ukrainian armies in the south of ukraine and there are fears for the cooling capacity at the nearby zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant the biggest one in europe. regardless of who or what caused the breach it has potentially deadly consequences for towns and villages in the path of the water. bbc verify has established there was already s
the dam is a significant resource, supplying water to a host of communities as well as to europe s largest nuclear power station at zaporizhzhia. this dam is over the dnieper river, between areas controlled by russian and ukrainian armies in the south of ukraine. this video tweeted by ukraine s president zelensky shows the breached kakhovka hydro electric dam. according to the newspaper the kyiv independent, the ukrainian government has announced it will allocate more than $40 million for constructing new water mains after the dam breach. russia claims ukraine is behind the damage, while president zelensky blames russia. translation: the whole world will know about this russian - war crime, the crime of genocide. such deliberate acts by the russian occupiers of the dam and other structures such as the power plant is an environmental bomb of mass destruction. for the sake of its own security the world should know now that russia cannot get away with it stacked x. thes
Well, today, we heard from the russian defence minister, sergei shoigu, who came out and claimed that the ukrainian counteroffensive that actually started three days ago, and he made a bold claim, saying that russia had thwarted the counteroffensive, and came up with all kinds of figures, claiming that more than 3000 ukrainian soldiers had been killed, he said that 71 russian soldiers had been killed over the last three days. we cannot confirm those figures and we have to be very careful about figures. we are not sure how accurate those are. but russian officials claimed that the ukrainian counteroffensive has got bogged down, but they provided no evidence for that, so i think we should be cautious about those claims. the destruction of the dam comes as reports of the long awaited ukrainian counter offensive entering its initial stages.
Territory to the north. the dam is a significant resource, supplying water to a host of communities as well as to europe s largest nuclear power station at zaporizhzhia. this dam is over the dnieper river, between areas controlled by russian and ukrainian armies in the south of ukraine. this video tweeted by ukraine s president zelensky shows the breached kakhovka hydro electric dam. russia claims ukraine is behind the damage, while president zelensky blames russia. translation: the whole world will know about this russian - war crime, the crime of genocide. such deliberate acts by the russian occupiers of the dam and other structures such as the power plant is an environmental bomb of mass destruction. for the sake of its own security the world should know now that russia cannot get away with such terror. our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse has spent the day travelling to the affected area.