The Red Cross then sounds the alarm the blowing up of the Nova Kahovka dam in Khersonas in addition to all the other disasters and property damage caused, the flood now also prevents the detection of land mines.

The area was mined mainly by the Russian forces, who as soon as they occupied Kherson took care to fortify their positions.

According to the BBC, a Red Cross official warned that the mines are now undetectable and pose a threat not only to the people of Kherson, but also to those who come to help.

“We knew where the danger was, but now we don’t know,” he told the AFP news agency. “All we know now is that they are where the water has taken them,” he added.

A spokesman for Ukraine’s military Southern Command told Ukrainian television: “Many mines have been dislodged and become floating. They are a big danger,” he said, explaining that they are likely to explode if they hit an obstacle.

Great disaster

When the Soviet-built giant dam in Ukraine’s Nova Kahovka broke last Tuesday, the water held by the country’s largest reservoir flooded streets and homes along the banks of the Dnieper River where tens of thousands of people lived despite the ongoing shelling. at this point on the map as of February 2022.

So far over 30,000 cubic meters of water is leaking every second from the dam’s reservoir. The fauna and flora on both sides of the Dnieper River have been destroyed and the environmental impacts are creating new, social impacts while the area is also at risk of contamination.

Ukrainian authorities, among their many warnings, call on citizens to drink only bottled water and not to eat fish from the river.

In addition, all the animals in the Nizhnedniprovsky National Nature Park drowned except for the swans and ducks.