About 600 square kilometers of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, are under water – Residents wade through flooded streets carrying their children and pets in their arms
Facing housing problem and the risk of serious diseases are now hundreds of Ukrainians who were forced to leave their homes after severe flooding which caused the blowing up of the Nova-Kahovka damaccording to Reuters.
Residents wade through flooded streets carrying their children and their pets in their hands while at the same time placing in plastic bags as many personal items as they can spare. at the same time, the rescuers used rubber boats to search the areas where the waters even exceeded 2 meters.
About 600 square kilometers of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, they are under water and of this area 68% is on the Russian-occupied left bank of the Dnieper River, as the governor of that region said today.
As he wrote on the Telegram messaging app, Alexander Prokudin, the average water level this morning was 5.61 meters.
Nearly 14,000 homes have been flooded and about 4,300 residents have been evacuated, the state-run TASS news agency reported today, citing the country’s security services.
According to the Ukrainian authorities, the floods will leave hundreds of thousands of people homeless and without access to drinking water after the waters have destroyed tens of thousands of hectares of agricultural land. In addition, at least 500,000 hectares of land will face severe drought once the waters recede.
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky he said in a speech that it was impossible to predict how many people would die in Russian-held areas from the floods, urging a “clear and swift response from the world” to support the victims.
The UN humanitarian affairs office said a team was in Kherson to coordinate aid efforts. Access to drinking water was a major concern and so far around 12,000 bottles of water and 10,000 purification tablets had been distributed.
Ukraine expects the waters to stop rising by the end of Wednesday after reaching about five meters overnight, deputy head of the presidency Oleksiy Kuleba said.
Source :Skai
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