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Sergiy Yablonsky, a farmer from Novosofiivka in the southern Ukrainian area of Mykolaiv, keeps harvesting his crops even though it's no longer profitable. Yablonsky's barley field was flooded, due to the damage caused by the collapse of the Kakhovka dam on June 6, and he lost 63 hectares out of the 300 hectares planted.
The Kremlin's spokesman said Monday that UN aid workers who want to visit areas ravaged by the recent Kakhova dam collapse in southern Ukraine can’t go there because fighting in the war makes it unsafe.
Ukraine warned of the danger of floating mines unearthed by flooding and the spread of disease and hazardous chemicals on Wednesday as senior officials inspected damage caused by the collapse of the vast Kakhovka hydro-electric dam. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg was in Kherson, Ukraine. He tells us what he saw.
Equipped with inflatable boats, Ukrainian military and police forces evacuate Kherson residents from the flooded areas of the city, following the collapse of Russian-held Kakhovka dam in the Kherson region. Ukraine is evacuating thousands after the dam's destruction unleashed a torrent of water, inundating two dozen villages and the city of Kherson. Both Moscow and Kyiv blame each other for the incident. IMAGES
"Inefficient" and bad for the environment – some environmentalists are arguing against the reconstruction of the Kakhovka Dam, despite the widespread devastation caused by its breach.
U.S.-led air strikes hit 10 units of Islamic State fighters in Syria in recent days as well as militants with the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan Group. Jillian Kitchener reports.