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00:00 Seeing first-hand the scale of the damage,
00:02 Volodymyr Zelensky met officials in charge of rescue efforts in Kherson.
00:06 Ukraine's president also visited a crossing point,
00:09 where people rescued from towns and villages along the Dnipro River
00:13 had been brought to safety.
00:15 These satellite pictures show the extent of the devastation,
00:19 in towns like Oleshki, completely submerged by floodwaters.
00:23 The collapse of the Novokrakovka dam
00:26 has triggered fears of an environmental catastrophe.
00:29 President Zelensky accused Moscow of detonating an environmental bomb of mass destruction.
00:34 And campaigners say some species may never recover.
00:38 It will take from three to ten years for different species to recover,
00:44 if some of them will be able to recover,
00:46 but probably some species will not be able to recover to the previous numbers,
00:52 or will not recover at all, unfortunately.
00:55 But aid agencies are also warning about another, more hidden danger.
01:00 The threat of landmines.
01:02 The Red Cross says the breach meant it was impossible
01:05 to locate some landmines that had been swept downstream.
01:09 A Ukrainian military spokesperson said anti-infantry mines
01:12 in Russian-occupied territory had been dislodged,
01:15 making them floating mines,
01:17 meaning they could explode as soon as they hit any debris.