Extensive flooding inundated villages and swept away structures after a dam was destroyed in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, according to local officials and imagery of the aftermath.
In the town of Antonivka, about 40 miles downriver from the Kakhovka dam, residents looked on in horror at the roiling coffee-colored floodwaters released by its destruction.
About 4,000 residents remained there before the flooding on Tuesday, out of a prewar population of about 13,000.
Ukraine and Russia blamed each other for the attack on the dam, which is in Russian-held territory.
In Nova Kakhovka, the city immediately next to the destroyed dam, the City hall and the Palace of Culture were inundated.
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