'Conducting operations in that whole area will be much more difficult,' Andriy Zagorodnyuk told Newsweek.
Kremlin-installed officials in the occupied region claimed several Ukrainian attacks on the dam overnight, though did not initially say the structure had been destroyed.
The dam's destruction poses a threat to hundreds of thousands of people, homes, and business in affected regions, including on the Russian-occupied side. The subsequent fall in water levels in the Kakhovka Reservoir may imperil theThe reservoir is also the source for the North Crimean Canal, a vital manmade waterway used to supply fresh water to the occupied Russian peninsula to the south. Securing this water supply was a key early goal of Russia's full-scale February 2022 invasion.
A Ukrainian soldier stands guard in a trench on January 7, 2023 in positions near Kherson, Ukraine. A potential attack across the Dnieper River to the east now looks highly unlikely after the destruction of the Nova Kakovka dam.The collapse comes amid conflicting reports that Ukraine's next counteroffensive has begun.
On Monday, Russia claimed to have defeated a Ukrainian push in Donetsk Oblast, and several officials and prominent military bloggers reported an intensification of fighting at several points along the 800-mile front.
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