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Evening Standard
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Rachael Burford and Nicholas Cecil

Ukraine war: 40,000 may lose homes after ‘grave’ breach of dam

More than 40,000 people are at risk of losing their homes to flooding after a giant Soviet-era dam was blown up in eastern Ukraine, officials in the country warned on Wednesday.

Thousands more are expected to lose access to food and safe drinking water following the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River.

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