Hundreds thousands of Ukrainians have difficulties in accessing drinking water, three days after a dam collapsed causing significant flooding in the south Ukraine, as the president stated today Volodymyr Zelensky.
“For hundreds of thousands of people in many cities and villages, access to drinking water is very difficult,” he told Telegram the day after his visit to the zone. Meanwhile, at least five people have been killed and 13 are reported missing in the floods caused by the collapse of the Kahovka dam, Interior Minister Ihor Klimenko said today.
Citing the same source, Reuters talks about four dead and 13 missing.
In total 48 communities have been flooded14 of which in Russian-occupied zones and 2,412 people have been removed from their homes on the Ukrainian side, the Ukrainian clarified Minister of the Interior on Telegram.
For their part, the Russian occupation authorities said that eight people died in the floods in the occupied Russia part of the Chersona region, and that the rise of the water level may last another 10 days.
“In total, 22,273 houses in 17 communities have been flooded. According to the forecasts, the rise of the water level may last another 10 days,” Vladimir Saldo, head of the occupied department of the Kherson region, said on Telegram, clarifying that the flood report “rose to eight” deaths.
According to him, 5,800 people have been evacuated since Tuesday from flooded Russian-held zones and 4,000 people face each other with the risk of water supply interruptions. He also accused the Ukrainian army of shelling the area, “which makes the work of rescue teams difficult.”
THE Russia, for its part, it bombed the city of Kherson and the part of the region under Ukrainian control, according to AFP journalists on the ground.
Source: News Beast
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