The situation in Kherson, Ukraine, has escalated into a humanitarian crisis as the region grapples with devastating flooding compounded by Russian aggression. Amid the chaos of people fleeing their inundated homes, Vladimir Putin’s forces have reportedly targeted residential areas and evacuation points, leaving civilians injured and at least one person dead. The flooding, triggered by the destruction... 

Russia has mined a huge hydroelectric dam in southern Ukraine in a plot to unleash a devastating flood, officials in Kyiv have warned. Moscow’s ‘nuclear blackmail’ had failed and the Kremlin was now resorting to new scare tactics, the head of the Ukrainian presidential office Andriy Yermak said last night. ‘Ukraine will not succumb to peace by coercion,’ he added. ‘They won’t break us....