In a flooded area in the Kherson region on the left bank of the Dnieper, which is controlled by Russia, the fate of 374 people is unknown. This is reported by the publication “Agency” with reference to the volunteers.
The publication writes that two of the missing, as indicated by the volunteers, probably died. Another person, according to volunteers, just died.
According to the coordinator of volunteers, on June 9, several dozen people were able to get out of the flooding sites. The “Agency” adds that 315 applications are marked as evacuated on the map of volunteers.
Volunteers also said that access to the largest flooded settlement, the city of Oleshki, is closed to them. There is a checkpoint at the entrance to the city, through which only employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and “military” volunteers pass, the rest can only get on the water, eyewitnesses say.
More than 1,700 requests for evacuation remain in the volunteer database, for each of which several people can expect rescue.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, as of June 10, 27 people are considered missing. Five people died. In the Kherson region, 47 settlements are located in the flood zone, of which 33 are in the territory controlled by Kyiv, 14 are in the territory occupied by Russian troops. More than two and a half thousand people were evacuated.
31 settlements are flooded in the Nikolaev area. About a thousand people were evacuated from there.
The breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station occurred on the night of the sixth of June. It is located above Kherson along the Dnieper in the village of Novaya Kakhovka.
Ukraine, the EU and the UK blamed Russia for what happened, Kyiv believes that we are talking about “undermining structures from the inside” in the hope of stopping the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Russian side denies the accusations and calls the breakthrough of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station “a deliberate sabotage of Ukraine.”
According to the New York Times, citing a senior official from the US presidential administration, Joe Biden, satellites equipped with infrared sensors recorded a heat signature from a powerful explosion that occurred immediately before the collapse of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric dam.
US analysts believe that this explosion caused the collapse of the dam, although they do not rule out that previous damage or increasing water pressure could also have contributed to the dam failure. So far, US intelligence agencies do not know who is responsible for this incident, but they suspect Moscow.
Earlier, NORSAR also discovered that on the day of the collapse of the dam, an explosion occurred in the area of the Kakhovskaya HPP.
