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Russia-Ukraine war: Drinking water rushed to those stranded after dam rupture

Streets are flooded in Kherson, Ukraine, June 7, 2023 after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed. [AP Photo]

Ukrainian authorities rushed drinking water to the southern part of the country on Wednesday to help thousands of people left stranded or fleeing the region a day after the rupture of the Kakhovka dam.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said hundreds of thousands of people were "without normal access to drinking water."

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