World Bank to conduct rapid assessment of damages after destruction of Ukraine dam, and President Zelenskyy urges aid groups to help with burst dam aftermath as Russia-Ukraine conflict enters its 471st day Follow our live coverage👇
A view shows a flooded area after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, in Kherson / Photo: ReutersThe World Bank will support Ukraine by conducting a rapid assessment of damages and needs after the destruction of a huge hydroelectric dam on frontlines between Russian and Ukrainian forces, a top bank official has said.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, also writing onTwitter, said he spoke with Bjerde about the impact of the dam's collapse, and she assured him the World Bank would carry out a rapid assessment of the damages and needs.President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that international aid groups must take immediate action to tackle the aftermath of the destruction of a hydropower dam in Ukraine and any group not on the spot helping is simply incapable.
"If an international organisation is not present in the disaster zone, it means it does not exist at all or is incapable."
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