Floods after the destruction of a dam: six dead and 35 missing on the Ukrainian side

The Ukrainian authorities on Sunday gave an multiplied toll of human losses caused by the floods after the destruction of a dam, with six lifeless and 35 humans lacking inside the regions underneath their control.

In the territories occupied by means of the Russians, officials established via Moscow said this week eight dead and 13 lacking in connection with this identical tragedy.

 

Tuesday’s destruction of the Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper induced a torrential downpour on cities and villages close to the river, inclusive of the nearby capital Kherson, recaptured in November through Ukrainian infantrymen. Both sides blame every other for this disaster, which affected each banks of the Dnieper, every controlled by means of one of the belligerents.

According to Interior Minister Igor Klymenko, 77 localities have been flooded, which includes 14 inside the territories underneath Russian profession. He furnished in a message on Telegram a total death toll of six lifeless and 35 missing, consisting of seven kids, in two areas. In regions under Ukrainian manipulate, 3,seven hundred people were evacuated. In those occupied through the Russians, nearby authorities say they have got evacuated greater than 7,000.

According to Igor Klymenko, 162,000 people also are without jogging water upstream of the destroyed hydroelectric dam. In Kherson, reporters referred to that the water had commenced to recede, with early citizens of that city returning domestic to look the damage, at the same time as evacuations keep in other regions.

 

Owner of a flooded grocery store in the middle of this metropolis, Oleksiï Guessine, 60, turned into capable of go back there for the first time on Sunday. Wearing rubber boots and in the rain, he shovels out the waste and earth which have been added in via the water. “The harm is considerable. In the shop, I had water as much as my chest, the whole lot beneath turned into broken,” he says.

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According to an employee of the Kherson meteorological center, Laura Moussian, the water degree has decreased domestically through 1.7 meters. “There might be heavy rain once more, which could extensively gradual the tempo of the decline,” she stated.

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriï Kostine described Sunday the destruction of the dam as “the worst environmental disaster because (the coincidence in 1986 at the nuclear strength plant) Chernobyl” in Ukraine, denouncing an “ecocide”.

According to him, as a minimum 3 cemeteries, oil storage terminals and landfills have been flooded. Nearly 450 tons of turbine oil additionally spilled into the waters of the Dnieper and then the Black Sea, he delivered.