Today, the peak of rising waters of the Dnieper River is expected to be reached after the explosion of the Jazorvir wall of Nova Kakhovka.

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About 42,<> people are at risk of flooding from both Ukrainian-controlled and Russian-controlled territories. The Security Council met on the situation, and Kiev and Moscow exchanged recriminations.

Satellite images show the scale of the devastation after the explosion of the Nova Kakhovka dam and how entire villages were flooded by the tidal wave along the Dnieper River.

Ukraine has accused Russia of committing a war crime, while Russia has accused Kiev of trying to distract from a failed start to the counteroffensive.

The U.S. fears the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam has killed many people.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the bombing of the Nova Cahovka dam was "another devastating consequence of Russia's invasion of Ukraine."

In the city of Kherson, 60 kilometers from the dam downstream of the Dnieper River, the water level is 3 and a half meters. People from 80 settlements were evacuated by buses, trains and private cars. Last night in Kherson there was shelling right at the areas from which civilians are being evacuated.

Residents of Nova Kakhovka in Russian-controlled territories have decided to stay in their homes despite the evacuation order. The Zaporizhian nuclear power plant said there was no danger of cooling the reactors because there was water in the tanks for months to come.

It is unclear who was responsible for the dam being blown up, but a U.N. official said it made no sense for Ukraine to want to harm its own people. The Geneva Convention prohibits dams from being the target of hostilities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian prosecutors were already in contact with the International Criminal Court about blowing up the dam.

"The whole world will know about the Russian war crime. Such deliberate destruction of the dam by the Russian occupiers is an ecological bomb of mass destruction. For the sake of our own security, the world should know that Russia cannot get away with such terror," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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