Drone images of the collapsed Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine and surrounding villages under Russian occupation show hundreds of homes and buildings along the Dnieper River inundated by floodwater.
The hydroelectric dam’s reservoir was breached in the early hours of June 6 and sent millions of liters of water bursting through a gaping hole causing widespread flooding in the Kherson region and prompting tens of thousands of people to flee.
In the newly released images, most of the dam—which holds a similar amount of water as the Great Salt Lake in Utah—was submerged by the rushing water. Two nearby villages under Russian occupation—Dnipryany and Korsunka—were also underwater up to the rooftops of homes….