Seven weeks after a dam collapsed in a Russian-controlled area of Kherson province in southern Ukraine, thousands of Ukrainians are still struggling to access clean water and aid workers say the situation is dire.
Ukrainian health officials have detected cholera-like vibrio bacteria in the cities of Mykolaiv and in Odesa, key Black Sea port towns near the dam that ship grain and are in the midst of repeated Russian bombings in the nearly 18-month-old war. Russia is targeting key grain infrastructure as part of its declared “retribution” for the attack on a critical 12-mile bridge that connects the occupied Crimean Peninsula with southern Russia.
