Ukrainian dam breach: What’s happening and what’s at stake

By JAMEY KEATEN
Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The fallout from the breach of a dam along a front line of Russia’s war in Ukraine is wreaking havoc on lives, livelihoods and the environment. The dramatic rupture of the Kakhovka dam on Tuesday unleashed a torrent of water from Ukraine’s largest reservoir into streets and homes downstream on the Dnieper River in an area where shelling regularly takes place. It’s not clear what caused the breach of the dam, which was already damaged in the war, but both Russia and Ukraine blamed each other of the Soviet-era facility.