• Around 700,000 people living in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region now urgently need access to drinking water after a major dam breach this week, the UN has said. Western intelligence officials said that record low water levels in the Kakhovka Reservoir after its dam burst on Tuesday have dried up a canal that supplies occupied Crimea with fresh water.The warnings come as Ukraine’s army pushes its counteroffensive, aimed at recapturing Crimea, which the Kremlin annexed in 2014.  Source:  sott.net