Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said on Saturday that at least 16 people had died and 31 were missing in the floods,
The death toll from the floods caused by the explosion of the Nova Kahovka dam last week has risen to 45 after authorities on both sides were informed.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine said yesterday Saturday that at least 16 people lost their lives and 31 missing from the floodswhile on the same day a Russian-backed Kherson official, Andrei Alekseenko, posted on Telegram that the toll had risen to 29.
The Ukrainian ministry also said 3,614 people were evacuated from flooded areas “including 474 children and 80 people with reduced mobility”.
The Nova Kahovka dam in southern Ukraine collapsed on June 6. As the largest water reservoir in Ukraine, it has a volume equal to the Great Salt Lake in the US state of Utah.
The collapse of the dam has implications for both nations. For Ukraine, it has destroyed villages, flooded farmland, left thousands of homes without electricity and clean water, and caused massive environmental damage. For Russian forces, it has flooded trenches and taken away the natural defenses they relied on along the Dnipro River.
Source :Skai
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