President Zelensky visits Kherson to see the scale of the disaster and oversee rescue efforts. Photo: MYKOLA TYMCHENKO/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
The boy can later be seen hugging one of the soldiers who helped rescue him.
The footage is similar to videos released by Ukraine of drones dropping grenades on Russian positions.< /p>
The Nova The collapse of the Kakhovka dam occurred on Tuesday as Ukraine prepared for a major counter-offensive to retake territory occupied by Russian troops.
The incident is likely to be the biggest man-made disaster in Ukraine since during the Chernobyl nuclear crisis.
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About 600 sq. km of southern Kherson region of Ukraine remained under water on Thursday, 68 percent of which are located on the Russian-occupied left bank of the Dnieper, the regional governor said on Thursday.
Oleksandr Prokudin wrote in the Telegram messenger that the average water level on Thursday morning was 5.61 meters.
< p>Ukraine said the flood would leave hundreds of thousands of people without access to drinking water, flood tens of thousands of hectares of agricultural land, and turn at least 500,000 hectares of irrigated land into «deserts.»
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