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Al Jazeera
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Mansur Mirovalev

Nova Kakhovka dam blast: Is Russia trying to freeze the war?

An overview of Nova Kakhovka dam in the Kherson region of Ukraine before its destruction [Maxar Technologies/AFP]

Kyiv, Ukraine – Lilya Pshenichnaya’s old apartment building in Kherson has not been flooded.

It stands high above the right bank of the Dnipro river in the administrative centre of the eponymous southern Ukrainian region that was occupied by Russia days after the war began more than a year ago.

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