Latvia allocates another $460,000 of aid to Ukraine after Kakhovka dam disaster.

????The Latvian government agreed on June 13 to grant additional humanitarian aid to Ukraine of around 430,000 euro (£464,000) to mitigate the consequences of the bombing of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant. The package will include electricity generators, compressors, pumping stations, life jackets, sleeping bags, pipes, motor pumps, diving gloves, boots, quadricycles, and other equipment. Transportation could cost around 20,000 euro, according to Latvia's public broadcaster[1].

Humanitarian aid will be granted from the State Fire and Rescue Service, while blankets and rubber boots will be provided from the State's material reserves. "Our support to Ukraine is firm, victory is the only road to peace," Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins said[2] on his Twitter following the announcement. The collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine on June 6 is one of the biggest industrial and ecological disasters Europe has witnessed in decades.

The catastrophe has destroyed entire villages, flooded farmland, deprived tens of thousands of people of power and clean water, and caused massive environmental damage.

Kakhovka dam destruction disrupts water, power supply but offers sustainable reset In the early morning of June 6, Russia blew up a major dam in the occupied part of southern Ukraine, causing a humanitarian and ecological crisis. The Kakhovka dam, located on the Dnipro River, is a major waterway running through southeastern Ukraine and the last of a series of six

Development manager, Canadian correspondent

Olena Goncharova is a development manager and Canadian correspondent for the Kyiv Independent.

She first joined the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper, as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper's Canadian correspondent in June 2018. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Olena has a master's degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv.

Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months.

The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia.

References

1. ^ public broadcaster (eng.lsm.lv)
2. ^ said (twitter.com)
3. ^ Kakhovka dam destruction disrupts water, power supply but offers sustainable resetIn the early morning of June 6, Russia blew up a major dam in the occupied part of southern Ukraine, causing a humanitarian and ecological crisis.

   The Kakhovka dam, located on the Dnipro River, is a major waterway running through southeastern Ukraine and the last of a series of six (kyivindependent.com)