Russian troops ‘swept away’ by flooding from Ukraine dam collapse

Russian troops were seen being swept away by raging floodwaters and running for their lives after the Nova Khakovka dam collapsed, according to a Ukrainian officer.

Capt. Andrei Pidlisnyi told CNN that at the time of the dam breach early Tuesday, “no one on the Russian side was able to get away. All the regiments the Russians had on that side were flooded.”

The officer suggested that Vladimir Putin’s soldiers may not have received an advance warning of what he claimed to be a Russian attack.

According to Pidlisnyi, the flooding killed or injured many enemy troops stationed on the east bank of the Dnipro River, which is under Russian control.

Russia and Ukraine blamed each other for the destruction of the dam, with the Kremlin calling it an act of “sabotage by the Kyiv regime,” and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky leveling an accusation of “ecocide” — or ecological genocide — at Moscow.

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