Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for international help to rescue people from parts of the southern Kherson region occupied by Russian forces, amid pleas from flood victims that there is no sign of relief. emergency response from Kremlin-backed officials after the area was subsequently flooded. dam fall
Zelensky said in his night speech that dozens of Ukrainian-controlled towns have been evacuated under Russian artillery fire. He said the conditions in residential areas were “absolutely terrible” – with people abandoned on rooftops, without water. An official posted in the Kremlin denied the allegations, saying the situation in the flood zone is “under control.” Ukraine and Russia have blamed each other for the collapse of the Kakhovka dam, and it is not clear why.
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Rescue, destruction in the flooded area of Ukraine: As the streets of Kherson became rivers after the Kakhovka dam failed, the residents of this front town once again began the sad and familiar process of leaving their homes with few belongings and their pets, not knowing when they could return, Heidi Levine and Ruby Mellen reported.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called the flooding a “humanitarian, economic and environmental disaster” that was a direct result of Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine.
