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  • Mass evacuations continue in southern Ukraine after the partial destruction of the Kakhovka Dam, which caused flooding in many localities along the Dnieper and of which Moscow and Kiev accuse each other.
  • In Geneva, the UN humanitarian agency OCHA warned that the destruction of the dam could cause an environmental disaster and "have a severe impact on hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the front line".
  • Ukraine said Monday it had gained ground near Bakhmut in the east, while relativizing the scale of "offensive actions" carried out elsewhere on the front. Russia, for its part, says it is repelling the large-scale attacks, while acknowledging Tuesday that 71 of its soldiers have died and 210 have been wounded in recent days. And this while the Russian army rarely reports its losses.

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06:30: Evacuations continue after partial destruction of dam

Mass evacuations continue on Wednesday in southern Ukraine after the partial destruction of the Kakhovka dam, which caused flooding in many localities along the Dnieper.

"The most difficult situation is in the Korabelny district of Kherson city. So far, the water level has risen by 3.5 meters, more than 1,000 houses are flooded" in this city retaken from the Russians by the Ukrainians in November 2022, said in a statement the deputy chief of staff of the Ukrainian presidency, Oleksiy Kuleba. According to him, evacuations will continue on Wednesday and in the coming days by bus and train.

"More than 40,000 people are at risk of being in flooded areas. Ukrainian authorities evacuate more than 17,000 people. Unfortunately, more than 25,000 civilians are on Russian-controlled territory," Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said on Tuesday. "At this stage, 24 localities in Ukraine have been flooded," Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said.

The authorities installed by the Russians in the regions they occupy said they had begun the evacuation of the population of three localities, mobilizing about fifty buses. Vladimir Leontiev, the mayor set up by Moscow in Nova Kakhovka, where the dam is located, said his city was under water and that 900 of its inhabitants had been evacuated.

06:20: IAEA reassures Zaporozhye plant

The partial destruction of the Kakhovka Dam has raised new concerns for the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. Located 150 km upstream, it is cooled by the water retained by the dam. But there is "no immediate nuclear danger," the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.

06h10 : Welcome to this new Live

Hello everyone. As every day, the editorial staff of 20 Minutes is mobilized to give you the latest information on the conflict. Yesterday was mainly marked by the partial destruction of the Kakhovka dam, which caused flooding in many localities along the Dnieper. For Kiev, the Russians are responsible because they wanted to "slow down" the coming counter-offensive. The Kremlin, for its part, denounced an act of "deliberate sabotage" and "firmly" rejected the Ukrainian accusations, calling on the international community to "condemn" Kiev for this destruction.

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