 Environmentalists have said that blowing up the dam would create an 'atomic bomb' of water crashing through towns and villages. The Kremlin previously issued threats saying it would mine the area and unleash a 'grandiose water apocalypse' to prevent a counter-offensive. The Antonivsky Bridge, the main crossing over the Dnipro River in the city of Kherson, was also blown up on Friday just before Ukraine's forces entered the city. The damage to the Nova Kakhovka dam ( Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Tech) The Institute Study of War said that satellite imagery corroborates statements made by both Ukrainian and Russian sources that Russian troops destroyed the "Antonivsky Bridge and Railway Bridge (near Kherson City) and the Nova Kakhovka dam bridge (east of Kherson City near Nova Kakhovka) over the Dnipro River and the Darivka Bridge (){kind=link}
Ukrainian forces raised their flag in central Kherson city on Friday and Ukrainians have been flocking to the streets to celebrate victory against the odds after Russia claimed all its troops had retreated
Footage shows the shocking moment explosions rocked a dam near Kherson as fleeing Russian forces threatened to leave major destruction in their wake.
A huge blast hit the Nova Kharkova dam near Kherson, in a move that environmentalists have warned could cause catastrophic flooding across Kherson and put hundreds of thousands of lives in danger.
The shocking CCTV footage is seen as evidence of deliberate destruction by the Russians as they withdraw from Kherson city, with panicked troops reportedly dressing as civilians to escape.
The US-based Institute for the Study of War said in October that Russia may plan to blow up the Nova Kharkova dam to flood Kherson.