Ukraine's Dam Rupture Sparks Humanitarian Crisis and Political Tensions.

The UN's top aid official, Martin Griffiths, has warned that the humanitarian situation in Ukraine is "hugely worse" than before the Kakhovka dam collapsed, leaving 700,000 people in need of drinking water. The flooding in one of the world's most important breadbaskets will almost inevitably lead to lower grain exports, higher food prices around the world, and less to eat for millions in need. The UN has reached 30,000 people in flooded areas under Ukrainian control, but Russia has not given access to areas it controls for the UN to help flood victims. Griffiths said that because of the wide-ranging consequences, it's almost inevitable that the UN will launch a special appeal for more aid funds for Ukraine to deal with "a whole new order of magnitude" from the dam's rupture.