Russian forces have occupied the dam for months. Russian soldiers have used a dam on the Dnieper River as a weapon once before, in an attempt to slow the advance of the German army in 1941.

The dam had held back the Dnieper River - a long stretch of which has become a front line - in a Russian-occupied area in the south.

Before the Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper River broke, farm fields appear green and crossed by peaceful streets and farm roads and dotted with trees.

KHORTYTSIA ISLAND, Ukraine -- The mighty Dnieper River flowed steadily past this ancient island for decades -- until the breach of a major dam downstream sucked the water away last month, exposing ...

The collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam sent torrents of water flooding through Ukraine’s southern Dnieper River basin, prompting evacuations and inundating thousands of hectares of land. Among ...

Russian and Ukrainian-controlled settlements along the Dnieper River were engulfed in floods, which forced mass evacuations and left dozens of people dead.

The Dnieper River dam collapse this week caused a major humanitarian crisis in southern Ukraine, but who, if anyone, was behind the breach is still shrouded in mystery. Both Ukrainian and Russian o… ...

The 98-foot-high dam and associated hydroelectric power station sit in Russian-controlled territory along the Dnieper River about 44 miles east of the city of Kherson - a flashpoint of Russia’s ...