A huge Soviet-era dam in southern Ukraine has been breached, sending water across the war zone.
Ukraine said Russia had destroyed it, while Russian officials gave conflicting accounts, some saying it was destroyed by Ukrainian shelling and others saying it collapsed due to earlier damage.
The dam - 30m tall and 3.2km long - was built in 1956 on the Dnipro River as part of the Nova Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant.
The reservoir also supplies water to the Crimean peninsula, which Russia claims to have annexed in 2014, and to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which is also under Russian control.
It holds water equal to the Great Salt Lake in the US state of Utah.
What happened at the dam?
Ukraine, which commented first, said Russia was responsible.
"Russian terrorists. The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam only confirms for the whole world that they must be expelled from every corner of Ukrainian land," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
"The Kakhovka (reservoir) was blown up by the Russian occupying forces," the south command of Ukraine's Armed Forces said.
"The scale of the destruction, the speed and volumes of water, and the likely areas of inundation are being clarified."
Some Russian-installed officials blamed Ukraine.
The Russian-installed Kherson administration said Ukraine shelled the dam at around 11pm last night, damaging the hydraulic valves.
"On Tuesday, June 6, the Ukrainian armed forces hit the Kakhovsky hydroelectric dam, as a result of which the upper part of the hydraulic structure was damaged," it said.
Other Russian-installed officials said no attack took place.
Vladimir Rogov, a Russian installed official in Zaporizhzhia, said the dam collapsed due to earlier damage and the pressure of the water.
Russia's state news agency TASS carried a report to the same effect.
What is the human impact?
With water levels surging higher, many thousands of people are likely to be affected and evacuations began on both sides of the frontline.
Around 22,000 people living across 14 settlements in Ukraine's southern Kherson region are at risk of flooding, Russian installed officials said. They told people to be ready to move.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that up to 80 settlements were at risk of flooding.
Crimea water supply at risk
The Russian-backed governor of Crimea said there is a risk that water levels in the North Crimea Canal, which carries fresh water to the peninsula from the Dnipro River, could fall after rupture of the dam.
The Crimean peninsula is dependent for fresh water on the canal.
Ukraine previously blocked water supplies to Crimea after Russia annexed the peninsula in 2014, causing water shortages in the region.
Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant 'not at risk'
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, gets its cooling water from the reservoir. It is located on the southern side, now under Russian control.
The United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on Twitter that it was closely monitoring the situation, but that there was "no immediate nuclear safety risk at (the) plant".
Russia's state nuclear energy company Rosatom said there was no threat to the Moscow-controlled nuclear plant.
