Water level at Nova Kakhovka up by over 10 metres after dam breached -TASS

The water level at Nova Kakhovka has increased by over 10 metres after a blast breached a major dam at the town overnight on Tuesday, Russian state-owned news agency TASS cited local Russian-backed authorities as saying.

RIA, another Russian state-owned news agency, local officials as saying that evacuations had begun in a number of settlements in the Nova Kakhovka district.