"People are sitting on the roofs of houses.
"The orcs abandoned the city," said Yevhen Rischuk, Oleshky's mayor in exile.
Politico reported that Russian forces blocked people who tried to flee immediately after the dam's destruction, forcing them to wait at home for an official list of evacuees that would be bussed out of the area. Numerous people even reported being fired upon when they tried to escape the flooded areas. The victims' attempts to escape by boat or otherwise were thwarted by Russian forces, who wouldn't let anyone leave if they didn't have a Russian passport. Many people are sitting on the upper floors, while some residents are trying to rescue their loved ones. The water rose in a matter of hours, said Serhiy. She said Russian troops set up checkpoints in the less-flooded areas to "prevent" locals from escaping the disaster area or saving others, and she heard of people drowning. This woman, who did not reveal her name, said the situation in the town is critical, with many children, elderly and disabled people stuck on their roofs for many hours. Serhiy, whose parents are trapped in Oleshky, shared a voice message from one of his acquaintances with the Kyiv Independent. Boats are passing by, but no one has picked them up yet." A photograph published by a local Telegram channel shows people escaping the flooding on a rooftop in a Russian-occupied settlement in Kherson Oblast. "They're sitting there waving some red rag. People helped to carry the son upstairs, and they did not take anything with them," he said. He described what they had been doing until their eventual rescue. "Right now, many people are sitting on the roofs in Oleshky," said Oleh – he has an aunt and a nephew with disabilities in the town. Russia's top collaborator in Kherson Oblast, Volodymyr Saldo, stated that people who endured material losses will get financial aid and that children are being transported to occupied Kherson Oblast and Crimea to "good holiday camps."īut people in the area or their relatives said there was no evacuation to speak of whatsoever. on June 7 claimed that 1,300 people were evacuated. They spoke of being trapped, either lacking the vehicles or fuel to escape or being blocked from leaving by the Russian occupying forces. The Kyiv Independent spoke with family members of people living under Russian occupation in Oleshky and collected accounts that residents posted on social media from the affected occupied areas. Occasional boats pass between the roofs and treetops that break through the surface. A woman pulling a small, frightened dog out of the murky floodwaters before trying to save what things she could. Social media is flooded with photos and videos of people sitting on rooftops as the water laps around them, with dwindling supplies and no way to escape. Many lost all their belongings, including their legal documents. It's expected to be days before the waters recede, letting people take stock of the damage.
Oleshky, a city with a pre-invasion population of 24,000 people, is likely to be completely submerged as well. There were 6,000 people in the city when the dam was blown up. The town of Hola Prystan was 85% flooded by mid-afternoon and was expected to be completely flooded by the end of the day, with the water reaching 3.5 meters, according to the city's military administration director Svitlana Linnik. The lower eastern bank of the Dnipro, occupied by Russia, suffered the worst of the damage. For their safety, they are identified by first name only.Īfter destroying the Nova Kakhovka dam and stranding thousands of Ukrainians in the catastrophic flood zone, Russians prevented people in occupied territories from fleeing or rescuing others, multiple accounts revealed on June 7.Ībout 80 settlements and 16,000 people were estimated to be in the critical areas. Editor’s note: For this story, we spoke to people living or having family in the Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine.
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