Ukraine and the West blame Russia for the drama at the Kakhovka dam. Aerial photographs show the extent of the disaster..
Area. Dozens of villages and tens of thousands of people are now threatened by flooding – on both sides of the Dnieper. Kiev accuses the Russian government of deliberately blowing up the building for strategic reasons and speaks of an act of terrorism. Moscow, on the other hand, blames Ukrainian rocket fire for the explosion. The exact cause is still unclear, but one thing is certain: the reservoir holds around 18 billion cubic meters of water.