The victims of the flood caused by the destruction of the Kakhovsky hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region of Ukraine were 18 people. This was announced by the so -called acting head of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo.
“Unfortunately, the number of those killed during the flood reached 18 people,” he wrote on Thursday, June 15 in a telegram channel.
According to him, more than 7.5 thousand people have been evacuated from the beginning of the rescue operation, 93 people were delivered to medical institutions.
The water level in the flooded territories continues to decline, Saldo noted.
Earlier, Saldo said that the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station is subject to restoration and, as soon as the water is leveled, experts will conduct measurements.
In the meantime, on the telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, it is reported that after the breakthrough of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, “27 settlements (1923 houses) remain flooded on the right bank of the Dnieper and 17 settlements in the temporarily occupied territory.”
In total, 2782 people were evacuated in the Kherson region, including 309 children and 78 sedentary citizens. “714 people were rescued, including 30 children and 40 low-mobility. Psychological assistance was provided to 391 people. The work of 14 evacuation points was deployed,”- follows from the message.
On June 12, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Igor Klimenko said that as a result of flooding due to the undermining of the Dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in the Kherson and Nikolaev regions of Ukraine, ten people were killed, 42 people, including seven children, are considered missing, ”- noted in the message.
Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region of Ukraine was destroyed on the morning of June 6.
The parties impose responsibility for each other for the breakthrough of the dam.