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October 21, 2022

Ukraine Warns of Flood Risk from Hydroelectric Dam Rigged by Russia to Explode
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of mining a
massive hydroelectric dam upstream from Kherson with explosives, and is
calling for international monitors to ensure the security of the site.
Ukraine has warned a breach of the dam could lead to catastrophic
flooding downstream, impacting hundreds of thousands of people. It could
also disrupt critical cooling systems at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power
plant, which relies on water from a reservoir created by the
hydroelectric dam. 


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