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Jun 2023
48m 21s

Zelensky visits Kherson after dam destru...

Bbc World Service
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has gone to the Kherson region to see the scale of the chaos unleashed by the destruction of a dam. Ukraine says more than two-thirds of the flooded land is in Russian-occupied territory on the left bank of the Dnipro river. We get the latest from Kherson and an assessment of the cost of the damage. Also in the program ... Show More
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