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Firefighters protected other buildings with sandbags, and urged people to avoid the area

Images supplied by Maxar technologies cover more than 2,500 square km and give some idea of the scale of the flooding and destruction in Kherson

Ukrainian president calls the destruction of the Kakhovka dam an act of ‘mass environmental destruction’ by Russia.

Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council dismisses claim counteroffensive has begun; up to 42,000 people at risk following destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam

Dozens of evacuees on an island in the Dnieper River scurried onto the tops of military trucks to flee rising floodwaters caused by the breach of a dam upstream, as shelling in a war zone separating Ukrainian and Russian forces echoed overhead

Thousands of people are being evacuated after the largest dam in Ukraine was blown up, unleashing catastrophic floodwaters downstream.

After the attack on the Nova Kakhovka dam, people downstream survey the damage

Hundreds of thousands of mines and debris are flowing into towns downstream, while lack of water upstream will hit food production