KYIV — About 600 square kilometers, or 230 square miles, of the Kherson region in southern Ukraine was under water on Thursday following the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, the regional governor said. Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said 68% of the flooded territory was on the Russian-occupied left bank of the Dnipro River. The 'average level of flooding' in the Kherson region on Thursday morning was 5.61 meters (18.41 ft), he said. 'We're already working. We will help everyone that has ended up in trouble,' he said in a video statement of the flooding caused by the collapse of the dam, which is about 60 km upstream from Kherson.

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