UKRAINIAN President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday (June 8) visited Kherson hospital, which has been treating people escaping floods caused by the destruction of a huge dam.

Earlier on Thursday, he met local officials to discuss emergency operations.

Moscow, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and Kyiv blamed each other for the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station and dam on Tuesday, which unleashed flood water from the Dnipro River.

Kherson lies on the Dnipro, about 60 km (37 miles) downstream from the Kakhovka dam.

Kherson's governor had said earlier on Thursday that 600 square kilometers, or 230 square miles, of the region was under water - most of it on the Russian-occupied side of the river - and that nearly 2,000 people had already left affected areas.

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