FOG BLOG WORLD LOG: DAM BLOWN UP IN UKRAINE, 'ACT OF TERROR' , 'RUSSIANS WITHIN, RESPONSIBLE'!

Kyiv, Ukraine — Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russian forces of blowing up a major Soviet-era dam and hydroelectric power station in a part of southern Ukraine that Russia controls, sending water gushing from the breached facility and risking massive flooding. Ukrainian authorities ordered thousands of residents downriver to evacuate.

Russia claimed it was Ukraine's military that damaged the Nova Kakhovka Dam — something Ukraine's president tersely rejected, arguing it was impossible to destroy the facility, which has been under Russian control for months, from the outside.

A local Moscow-installed official said there was "no threat" to major population centers from the floodwaters, but Ukrainian officials warned the breach could have broad consequences, flooding homes, streets and businesses downstream, depleting water levels upstream that help cool Europe's largest nuclear power plant, and draining drinking water supplies for the south in Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.