Kakhovka dam disaster
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Thousands flee floods as Ukraine and Russia blame each other for dam break.
The BBC’s international editor, Jeremy Bowen, is in the studio to discuss what could have happened to the dam, why anyone would attack it, and what impact this could have on the wider conflict. Also, we get through to one man living and working in one of the flooded areas. Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producers were Arsenii Sokolov and Clare Williamson. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producers are Tim Walklate and Tom Smithard. Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, it's 468 days since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and we have |
| 0:11.6 | witnessed what appears to be another really significant development in this conflict. |
| 0:17.8 | Ukraine has accused Russia of destroying a dam in the Moscow Sea's region of Heson |
| 0:24.1 | in the south of the country. |
| 0:26.4 | Thousands of villages, towns, houses, buildings are threatened by flooding, and evacuations |
| 0:31.7 | are already underway, officials say with at least 16,000 people at risk from the flood |
| 0:36.6 | waters. |
| 0:37.6 | And there's some really striking footage, isn't there, Vitaly? |
| 0:40.3 | Yeah, I've spent most of this morning looking at it, and it's truly apocalyptic. |
| 0:46.8 | Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. |
| 0:48.8 | Trans, trans, ripadets. |
| 0:55.0 | Things like whole houses floating down the river NEPA swans swimming about in the central |
| 1:02.9 | square of Novakahovka, the Roshakupite town. |
| 1:08.3 | Roads being flooded, streets and water, people being evacuated, and we're talking a lot |
| 1:15.0 | of people. |
| 1:16.9 | It's truly heartbreaking. |
| 1:18.5 | This part of Ukraine has suffered a lot now this. |
| 1:23.3 | And you know this area really well, don't you? |
| 1:25.7 | Can you, for anybody around the world who's listening, get your Google Maps out, and can |
| 1:30.0 | you just pinpoint it for us, Vitaly? |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah, that's where I grew up. |
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