INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kyiv said Wednesday the destruction of the Russian-held Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine earlier this month caused an estimated $1.5 billion
in damages to the environment.The breach of the dam on June 6 caused devastating floods in the Kherson region under Russian and Ukrainian
Soviet-era dam on the Dnipro River, while Russia has blamed Ukraine."Every day Russia is inflicting new losses on Ukraine," Ukrainian Prime
$411 billion by the World Bank, "will grow, especially after the Russians blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant."He said the
"preliminary estimates" of $1.5 billion in environmental damages following the dam breach do not include "losses to agriculture,
infrastructure, housing, and the cost of rebuilding the plant itself."
