Ukraine blames Russia for critical dam collapse
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Who blew up that dam, the lead starts right now. |
| 0:07.0 | An explosion destroys a dam swapping an entire region of Ukraine under Russian control |
| 0:11.8 | with devastating flooding, and now thousands of people are being evacuated as Ukraine |
| 0:17.5 | and Russia blame each other for the apparent sabotage. |
| 0:20.8 | Then, a flood of a different kind raising more questions about the legal web enveloping |
| 0:28.0 | Donald Trump, how the drained pool at Mar-a-Lago in the flooded server room could play into |
| 0:34.0 | the special counsel's investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents as a witness |
| 0:39.0 | prepares to go before a grand jury that is meeting in Florida. |
| 0:43.6 | Plus, Prince Harry fighting two legal battles on both sides of the pond. |
| 0:48.8 | What the estranged member of the royal family was grilled about during cross-examination |
| 0:53.0 | in the UK and the case here in the United States that you might not have heard about yet. |
| 1:03.6 | Welcome to the Lina Jektapper, and we start with our world lead and the catastrophic |
| 1:07.0 | deluge on the southern front lines in Ukraine overnight. |
| 1:09.9 | Water gushed from the breached ANOVA KAKOVA, KAKOVA KADAM, washing away entire homes. |
| 1:16.1 | Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, ordered more than 80 towns and villages in the critical |
| 1:20.3 | flood zone to evacuate with thousands already displaced in, quote, many deaths likely, according |
| 1:25.9 | to the White House. |
| 1:27.2 | The dam supplies vital drinking water to large swaths of Ukraine and also cools the |
| 1:32.4 | reactors at the nearby Zaparija nuclear power plant. |
| 1:36.0 | The dam holds back roughly the same amount of water that exists in the Great Salt Lake |
| 1:41.1 | in Utah. |
| 1:42.4 | Russia is blaming Ukraine for sabotaging the dam. |
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