Russia has blown up major Ukrainian dam, says Kyiv

Ukraine's military has accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam in the Moscow-seized Kherson region, in the south of the country, and has warned thousands of houses downstream will now be flooded.

The military said "the scale of the destruction" of the Kakhovska Hydroelectric Power Plant on the Dnipro River was now being analysed.

A Russian-installed local official said only the upper part of the plant had been destroyed by shelling - but not the dam itself.

Neither of the claims has yet been verified.

The Soviet-era Kakhovska HPP is located in the city of Nova Kakhovka in Ukraine's Kherson region.

The city and other areas on Dnipro's left (eastern) bank are currently under Russian occupation.

(BBC)