{"id":1074808,"date":"2023-06-08T19:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2023\/06\/1137487"},"modified":"2023-06-08T19:00:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T19:00:38","slug":"ukraine-dam-disaster-flooding-poses-grave-risk-to-families-impacted-unicef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/08\/ukraine-dam-disaster-flooding-poses-grave-risk-to-families-impacted-unicef\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine dam disaster: flooding poses \u2018grave risk\u2019 to families impacted: UNICEF\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flooding stemming from the Ukraine dam disaster near Kherson poses a grave risk to families, and threatens safe water and power supplies, said the UN Children\u2019s Fund\u2019s (UNICEF) communications chief in the country.\u00a0<\/p><p lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\">Damian Rance said around 1,700 people have had to evacuate from flooded homes in the major southern city, and one of most direct threats is a doubling or even tripling of the threat posed by landmines, being swept away to new locations. \u00a0<\/p><p lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\">Oleksandra Burynska\u00a0began by asking him what the latest was on the ground in the disaster area:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2023\/06\/1137487\">UN News - Global perspective Human stories<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flooding stemming from the Ukraine dam disaster near Kherson poses a grave risk to families, and threatens safe water and power supplies, said the UN Children\u2019s Fund\u2019s (UNICEF) communications chief in the country.\u00a0Damian Rance said around 1,700 peo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":397,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075388,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074808\/revisions\/1075388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}