On Tuesday, Ukraine accused Moscow of spreading misinformation to civilians in the Kherson region to persuade them to evacuate.
Russian troops are reportedly intimidating Ukrainian civilians into evacuating by threatening to blow up a hydroelectric dam on the Dnipro River, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday.
Both sides have accused each other of planning to blow up the plant, a dam that pumps water into the North Crimean canal and couldVolodymyr Zelensky "The dam of this hydroelectric power plant holds a volume of about 18 million cubic meters of water," Zelensky said in an address."If Russian terrorists blow up this dam, more than 80 settlements, including Kherson, will be in the zone of rapid flooding. Hundreds of thousands of people could be affected."
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