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STORY: Officials in Ukraine said the death toll from flooding following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam has risen to 16. And Russian officials said 29 people have died in territories that Moscow controls. The breaching of the Kakhovka Dam on June 6 unleashed floodwaters across a large area of land in southern Ukraine and in Russia-occupied parts of Ukraine, destroying farmland and cutting off supplies to civilians. More than 3,600 people have been evacuated from the flooded areas in the Kherson and Mykolaivregions, while 31 people were still missing and some 1,300 houses remained flooded That's according to Ukraine's interior ministry. Here in Hola Prystan, a city in Russian-controlled Ukraine, volunteers were seen pumping floodwater out of homes on Saturday. This woman says her only hope is God. We don't put our hopes in any of the authorities, she says. Ukraine accuses Russia of blowing up the Soviet-era dam, under Russian control since early days of its invasion in 2022. A team of international legal experts assisting Ukraine's prosecutors in their investigation said in preliminary findings on Friday it was "highly likely" the collapse in Ukraine's Kherson region was caused by explosives planted by Russians. The Kremlin accuses Kyiv of sabotaging the hydroelectric dam, which held a reservoir the size of the U.S. Great Salt Lake, to cut off a key source of water for Crimea and distract attention from a quote "faltering" counter-offensive against Russian forces.

STORY: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying the plan was "difficult to realise". Peskov said Putin had shown interest in the plan, whose 10 points South African President Cyril Ramaphosa laid out in his presentation, and Russia would continue dialogue with the African countries. Lavrov said they had not brought the Russian leader any message from Zelenskiy. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday (June 18) gave African leaders seeking to mediate in the conflict in Ukraine a list of reasons why he believed many of their proposals were misguided, pouring cold water on a plan already largely dismissed by Kyiv. The African leaders were seeking agreement on a series of "confidence-building measures", even as Kyiv last week began a counteroffensive to push back Russian forces from the swathes of southern and eastern Ukraine that they occupy.

VIDEO SHOWS: STORY: Experts with the international human rights law firm Global Rights Compliance, which is implementing Western-back efforts to support accountability for atrocities in Ukraine, visited the Kherson region from June 10-11 with Ukraine's prosecutor general and a team from the International Criminal Court. They dismissed the theory that a catastrophic dam breach could have been caused by mismanagement alone. "There's a number of different war crimes and international crimes that would come into play in this incident. The the ones that we've been looking at most closely are the war crimes of starvation, and which is part and parcel of the investigative focus that we have on this particular team. And the other possible war crimes that which we believe would fall within this frame, would be attacks on civilian objects," Murdoch added. Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of destroying the Kakhovka dam as a Western-backed tactic to escalate the conflict. Ukraine is investigating the blast as a war crime and possible criminal environmental destruction, or "ecocide". The vast Soviet-era Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, under Russian control since the Feb. 24 invasion, was breached in the early hours of June 6, unleashing floodwater across a swathe of the battleground in southern Ukraine, destroying farmland and cutting off water supplies to a large part of the population.

The water unleashed by the burst Kakhovka Dam cut off the island of Afanasiivka from the mainland. (June 16) (AP video/Sam McNeil)

Seven African leaders arrived in Kyiv on Friday on a mission to help broker an end to the war, as both Moscow and Kyiv court developing nations for support. The trip began at the site of a mass grave of Ukrainian civilians killed in the town of Bucha. Photo: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters

Ukraine said it regained control of 38 square miles since it started a counteroffensive to oust Russian forces, but Kyiv acknowledged its forces faced strong resistance on the battlefield. Photo: Sergey Bobok/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Oleksandr Vinkovkyi directs a business in Kyiv where visually impaired people worked until Russian missiles struck the office. He is also blind and is part of a population that experts say is disproportionally affected by the war in Ukraine. (June 15)

At a meeting Thursday in Brussels, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urged allies to supply more arms to Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukraine is pushing ahead with its counteroffensive against Russia, and there are growing concerns about a Ukrainian nuclear plant under the control of Russian forces. CBS News foreign correspondent Ian Lee has more.

Russian forces fired cruise missiles at the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa and shelled the eastern Donetsk region early Wednesday, killing at least six people and damaging dozens of homes, regional Ukrainian officials said. (June 14)

ABC News' Marcus Moore reports on American neurosurgeon Dr. Rocco Armonda as he steps up to save lives working side by side with Ukrainian doctors as the relentless war rages on.

Russia launched a barrage of missiles and drones in southern and eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, including the city of Odesa, killing at least six people. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Kyiv lost up to 30% of its Western military equipment. Photo: Oleksandr Gimanov/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

At least six people were killed across Ukraine in Russia's latest overnight strikes on the country. The latest attack comes as the U.S. announced a new $325 million military aid package for Ukraine that will include air defense systems. BBC News correspondent Mayeni Jones has more.

Ukrainian officials say Russian missiles rained down in a central Ukrainian city overnight, killing at least 11 people and wounding more than two dozen in a warehouse and an apartment building. (June 13)

STORY: On this dusty road in southeast Ukraine, Reuters journalists have made the first independent confirmation that the Ukrainian military's counteroffensive is gaining ground... ...now in its early stages, although Russia's government hasn't officially acknowledged the loss of this village or several others. This is the village of Neskuchne, in the Donetsk region. It once had a population of several hundred. Now its streets are silent except for artillery fire in the distance. Not a single building is undamaged. Artem is a soldier with Ukraine's territorial defense forces and is telling us the place was under Russian occupation for a year and half. The Russians were chased out three days ago, he says, and "these are Ukrainian lands." It's not clear how much momentum Ukraine's assault is carrying right now, or the losses for each side. This video released by Russia's military on Tuesday is said to show American-made Bradley Fighting Vehicles and German-made Leopard tanks captured from Ukraine elsewhere on the frontline. Reuters couldn't immediately confirm the account, or the location, or when it was filmed. But Russia has made other claims in recent days of destroying Western armored vehicles that were donated to Ukraine. In Neskuchne, three bodies litter the ground said to be Russian forces. Artem says his unit watched how one of them died on a drone camera. The Russians were carrying their comrade and left him here. These are still the early days of the counteroffensive. Tens of thousands of fresh Ukrainian troops and hundreds of Western armored vehicles are yet to be committed to the fight. But Russia has also had months to prepare, with multiple defensive lines and fallback positions, meaning Ukraine's advance doesn't necessarily mean its breached through.