Dam Ukraine | At least seven missing after destruction of Jershon Dam

2023-06-07 08:47:29

At least seven people have disappeared after the floods caused by the destruction of the New Kakhovka damin the river Dnieper and 60 kilometers from the Ukrainian city of Kherson.

“Now we are looking for information about the missing, but preliminarily these people were also evacuated from the floodplains that ceased to exist. There were shepherds there… About seven people we know for sure,” said the pro-Russian mayor of the town, Vladimir Leontiev. , according to the Russian agency Interfax.

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According to the mayor, the rescue teams are “circling” these territories and, although the water level is still “very significant”, the water level in the city has started to drop.

Some 900 people have been evacuated from these territories and 17 have been rescued from rooftops, because the water has reached 12 meters high. Authorities have predicted that the water level will begin to drop within three days.

This Tuesday, the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenskidescribed the destruction of the dam of “bomb of mass environmental destruction”and confirmed that kyiv has already denounced Russia for it before international justice.

“The deliberate destruction of the dam and other infrastructure of the (New Kakhovka) hydroelectric power station by the Russian occupiers is an environmental bomb of mass destruction,” Zelensky said in his address to the nation on Tuesday.

In his daily address to his citizens, the Ukrainian head of state also reported that “the (Ukrainian) attorney general has already asked the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to involve international justice in the investigation of the explosion in The prey”.

About the consequences of the disaster, which It has caused the flooding of dozens of towns and is forcing the evacuation of thousands of people from the areaZelensky highlighted the problems of drinking water supply that the overflow could cause for several regions of the south and south-east of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian president assured that authorities are “doing everything possible” to supply drinking water to provinces such as Krivói Rog, Dnipropetrovsk, Jerson, Mykolaiv and Zaporiyia.