In the Kherson region, rescuers evacuated residents under mortar fire from the armed forces of Ukraine
photo: frozen video from Telegram channel https://t.me/aakherson
AFU conducts targeted fire on rescue boats evacuating residents from the flooded area of Kherson region. This was announced by the Prime Minister of the region, Andrey Alekseenko, in his Telegram channel. The fact that there were no deaths is a great success, he said.
By the morning of June 9, more than five thousand people had been evacuated to safe areas by the Ministry of Emergency Situations. In the Kherson region, more than 190 rescuers work on 66 units of high-speed equipment, including vessels. The grouping of the ministry for emergency situations is still growing.
On the night of June 6, VE Kakhovskaya was damaged, after which the dam was destroyed in cascade and the territory began to flood. According to the authorities of the Kherson region in Russia, more than 22,000 houses in 17 settlements were flooded. At the same time, the Ministry of the Interior of Ukraine talks about the flooding of 34 settlements.
Vladimir Putin described the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power plant as an illustrative example of the war crimes of the Zelensky regime. . According to him, these are barbaric actions that led to a large-scale ecological and humanitarian disaster.