The enormous devastation of Russia’s suspected blowing up of a Ukrainian dam emerged yesterday, with mounting misery poured on thousands and entire towns near-submerged in floodwater.
President Zelensky called the aftermath an “environmental bomb of mass destruction”, as fears grew of an environmental disaster from polluted waters, partly caused by oil leaking from the dam’s machinery.
The breaching of the dam on the Russian-controlled side shortly after 2am on Tuesday is Ukraine ’s worst ecological atrocity since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant carnage.
