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The destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River that separates Russian and Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine has sent a torrent of water gushing through the breached facility, creating a new humanitarian disaster at the heart of the war zone and stoking fears of a nuclear escalation.

Water from the river is used to help cool Europe’s largest nuclear power station

But IAEA says damage to Nova Kakhovka dam raises long-term concerns for power station’s future

It was immediately unclear who was responsible for the the damage of the dam and power station on the Dnipro River. The damage risked to flood areas where hundreds of thousands of people live.

The destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine poses a threat to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, but the situation at the facility is under control, Ukraine's state atomic power agency said on Tuesday.

‘This situation cannot continue,’ UN nuclear watchdog warns

The Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has been cut off from its external power supply.

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog says Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has switched to emergency diesel generators after losing its external power supply for the seventh time since Russia’s full-scale invasion

Vladimir Rogov, a Russia-installed local official in the Moscow-controlled part of the region, has said the Zaporizhzhia plant was "completely" disconnected from the external power supply

Ukraine’s state-owned power generating company Energoatom blamed the outage on Russian shelling

Russian forces targeted the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro overnight with missiles and attack drones, wounding at least eight people, Ukraine's army said on Monday. Kyiv has denied involvement in an attack in the Russian border region of Belgorod that Moscow blamed on Ukrainian "sabotage". Read our live blog for…