The destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine caused flooding in surrounding areas on Tuesday (June 6th) The Kakhova hydroelectric power plant is a strategic location that supplied water to the annexed peninsula of Crimea. The situation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, located 150 kilometres upstream, is also worrying.
"The world is once again on the brink of a nuclear disaster," says a nuclear researcher at Lyon 1 University, because the plant has lost its source of cooling.