The death toll has risen since flooding in Ukraine following the destruction of the Kachovka dam on the Dnieper River last week. On the one hand, the Ukrainian authorities reported, on Saturday June 17, 16 dead and 31 people missing. “Sixteen people died: fourteen in the Kherson region and two in the Mykolaiv region. Thirty-one people are still missing,” said the Ukrainian Interior Minister.
Russia, for its part, has recorded 29 deaths in the areas it controls, in the south of Ukraine, announced Andrei Alekseïenko, the person in charge of the Russian occupation in the region of Kherson. The previous report communicated by the authorities installed by Russia reported 17 dead.
The Kachovka hydroelectric dam, located in an area under Russian control in the Kherson region, was destroyed on June 6. Hundreds of square kilometers downstream were flooded, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents and raising fears of both a humanitarian and environmental catastrophe. Moscow and kyiv blame each other for this destruction.
Two days after the destruction of the dam, civilians in the Kherson region were already the target of several bombardments, which Kyiv and Moscow mutually accuse.
