June 7 (Reuters) - The Russian-installed mayor of Nova Kakhovka, a southern Ukrainian town controlled by Moscow, said on Wednesday that claims by a local private zoo that all of its 300 animals ...

but Russian claims denying that any animal died — or that no zoo existed in the first place — are false. The city of Nova Kakhovka, directly below the dam, experienced extreme flooding shortly ...

According to the Nova Kakhovka zoo, 300 animals died Tuesday in the collapse’s aftermath. Ukrainian troops witnessed Russian soldiers being swept up in flood waters and fleeing the east bank of ...

Floodwaters are rising in two cities in Russia’s Ural Mountains after Europe’s third longest river burst through a dam, flooding at least 6,000 homes and forcing thousands of people to flee.