More than a thousand houses have already been freed from the water spilled by the Kakhovka dam in the area occupied by Russian troops in the annexed Kherson region of Ukraine. As reported today by the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations, 1,659 people are still in reception centers.
The Russian-imposed acting governor of Jerson, Vladimir Saldo, confirmed today that “the climactic moment of the flooding has already passed”.
“The water continues to recede,” he said, noting that in some of Kherson’s districts its level has fallen below a meter and a half. In turn, he announced that the specialists from the Ministry of Defense have already begun disinfection work in the area affected by the floods.
The Russian hydroelectric company, RusHydro, calculates that the water of the Dnieper river will return to its normal course next Friday, at least in the lower part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, where the dam that collapsed last Tuesday was located, causing the displacement of almost 9,000 people in the south of ukraine.
In total, more than 7,000 people have been evacuated so far in the towns of New Kakhovka, Oleskhi and Hola Pristan, cities all occupied by Russia, including 410 children.
Russian authorities raised the number of people killed in the floods to eight on Friday, a figure that volunteers put at several dozen, according to media such as The Insider. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine reported that five people died in the north of Kherson and another thirteen are missing.
As with Kakhovka, Kiev accused Moscow on Sunday of blowing up a new dam on the Mokri Yaly river in the Donetsk region, with the aim of preventing an enemy counteroffensive.
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