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Volunteers evacuate local residents from a flooded area after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, in Kherson
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The Nova Kakhovka dam on Ukraine’s Dnieper river was breached, leading to disastrous flooding in downstream cities that displaced thousands of people. Ukraine said Russia had blown it up, and America promised to release evidence backing that claim. Russia denied the accusation.

Ukraine strikes back

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