Nova Kakhovka dam destruction: Ukraine's Zelensky visits flooded region of Kherson

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00:00 Seeing first-hand the scale of the damage,

00:02 Volodymyr Zelensky met officials in charge of rescue efforts in Kherson.

00:06 Ukraine's president also visited a crossing point,

00:09 where people rescued from towns and villages along the Dnipro River

00:13 had been brought to safety.

00:15 These satellite pictures show the extent of the devastation,

00:19 in towns like Oleshki, completely submerged by floodwaters.

00:23 The collapse of the Novokrakovka dam

00:26 has triggered fears of an environmental catastrophe.

00:29 President Zelensky accused Moscow of detonating an environmental bomb of mass destruction.

00:34 And campaigners say some species may never recover.

00:38 It will take from three to ten years for different species to recover,

00:44 if some of them will be able to recover,

00:46 but probably some species will not be able to recover to the previous numbers,

00:52 or will not recover at all, unfortunately.

00:55 But aid agencies are also warning about another, more hidden danger.

01:00 The threat of landmines.

01:02 The Red Cross says the breach meant it was impossible

01:05 to locate some landmines that had been swept downstream.

01:09 A Ukrainian military spokesperson said anti-infantry mines

01:12 in Russian-occupied territory had been dislodged,

01:15 making them floating mines,

01:17 meaning they could explode as soon as they hit any debris.

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