A local resident packs his belongings in a car after a night missile attack on the city of Kramatorsk, on July 9, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Ukrainian servicemen walk past a house damaged by a Russian military strikes in the village of Vremivka near a front line in Donetsk Region, Ukraine, July 8, 2023.
The city of Nikopol near the front line in the south is also regularly hit by Russian forces and half of its pre-war population of 100,000 people has left. The region has already been badly hit by an explosion at the Kakhovka dam on June 6 which caused significant flooding and killed dozens of people. Upstream from the dam, the Kakhovka reservoir – 100km long and up to 10km wide – is running low. Local residents fill their bottles with non-potable water at a water distribution centre in Nikopol.
Nadiya Efremova 86, resident of Afanasiyivka village, Mykolaiv region sits in her damaged house due to flood following damage sustained to the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam. July 5, 2023.
The destroyed Nova Kakhovka dam, Beryslav town and Dnipro River bank, dried-up after water level sharply dropped following the collapse of the dam, seen from the town of Nova Kakhovka in Kherson Region, Russian-controlled Ukraine, July 5, 2023.