the rupture of the Kakhovka dam floods the entire Kherson region

Hundreds of people remain trapped by the flooding caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Oleshky, a town under Russian control in the province of Kherson, and in nearby towns, according to the Ukrainian authorities. A 90% of the surface of the town is still floodedas he declared to the station radio freedom the Ukrainian mayor of Oleshky displaced by the Russian invasion, Yevgen Ryshchuk.

Nails 300 people have been rescued in that town, including 120 who are being treated for hypothermia. Ukrainian representatives have identified at least three deadalthough the number is expected to increase.

The authorities installed by the Russian forces have “abandoned the population to their luck,” said Ryshchuk, according to whom most of the rescue operations have been carried out by the inhabitants of the town themselves who have come to the aid from their neighbors. Although in Oleshky there are volunteers dedicated to this task, it is possible that the situation is much more difficult in neighboring towns those who cannot reach, warned the mayor.

In addition, salvage is made difficult by the fact that Russian forces have confiscated numerous boats of local residents over the past few months, according to the mayor and various members of the Oleshky Evacuation Telegram group. This channel, to which more than 8,000 members have already joined, continues to be flooded with messages with calls for help.

In most of them, users publish the addresses of flooded houses of relatives who have been waiting for help for three days now in their apartments or in attics and rooftops. To date, they are counted almost 1,400 addresses in Oleshky and its surroundings.

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Communication with survivors is complicated, but according to some messages on the channel, some have been rescued and, according to the volunteers who created it, on Thursday morning, 170 had already been visited of the addresses indicated.

“My parents were saved by chance. They waited all day to be rescued. A man was passing by in a boat and saw them,” he told efe Anna, a member of the group. “My family’s houses began to collapse after being rescued, after waiting more than 24 hours. I have no idea who helped them, I only know that they are alive, “said Lesya, for her part.

Some of the rescued were transported yesterday by Russian forces to the occupied city of Genicheskhe stated in statements to efe Anna, another channel member, whose 76-year-old grandmother was saved with her cat after waiting for a day on the top floor of their apartment block.

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