Kherson
The Kakhovka dam’s failure could unleash 4.8 billion gallons of water and flood Kherson and dozens of other areas where hundreds of thousands of people live.
Videos online show residents chanting “glory to the Armed Forces” and greeting Ukrainian soldiers as they arrive to help free the city.
While attention has focused on the fighting around Kyiv and the east, Russia captured and has held onto swaths of Ukraine’s southern territory for two months.
