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“The Ukrainian counteroffensive has begun,” its daily note said. However, behind the dramatic headlines and simple, powerful images, a more complex – but far more significant – development in the war was taking place. The story jolted the rumbling Ukraine-Russia war back onto the front pages and the top of the news bulletins, leaving humanitarian agencies scrambling to step up to this new trial. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was quickly on the scene, deploring what he deemed a cruel act of Russian sabotage – a war crime – even as Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov levelled the same charge back at him. Social media was laden with heart-rending images of bedraggled pet cats and dogs.Ī flooded petrol station in Kherson, Ukraine, after the Kakhovka dam collapse. Tens of thousands in Kherson province had to flee as their homes went under. Within hours, houses, fields, roads and whole villages on both banks were inundated. On Tuesday, in circumstances still unclear – but widely assumed in Ukraine and the West to be at Russia’s hand – the Nova Kakhovka dam disintegrated, unleashing its unusually over-brimming reservoir into the Dnipro (or Dnieper) River, a front line in the conflict with Russia. But somehow, there is always another depth to plumb. The misery of Ukraine’s war – bombed-out apartment blocks, ruined bridges, untended fields – has been relentless.

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