FILE PHOTO: Destroyed Antonivskyi bridge is seen over the flooded Dnipro river after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near Kherson, Ukraine June 8, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The southern reach of the Dnipro river is likely to return to its banks by June 16 following a vast flood unleashed by the breach of Ukraine's Kakhovka dam this week, a Russian-installed official said on Saturday.
The flood has inundated towns and villages below the dam, trapping residents and sweeping away entire houses on both sides of the Dnipro, which separates Ukrainian-controlled Kherson province from the southern section that Russian forces control.
