Water begun receding in occupied Nova Kakhovka, coffins float in Korsunka

In occupied Nova Kakhovka, the water level began to fall after the flooding caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant dam, all the while the city remains without electricity. Source: Volodymyr Kovalenko, mayor of the city on the air of Radio Svoboda (Liberty) Quote from Kovalenko: "As for Nova Kakhovka, the water is receding, it now remains only in the park area, in the lower part of the city, that were flooded in the first few hours, and where the biggest wave was, with the water reaching up to six metres: in the area of the Kazkova Dibrova.

This part is still flooded, but there is no housing stock." Details: Kovalenko also noted that the Russian military personnel remains in Nova Kakhovka.

"According to eyewitnesses, they occupy vacant apartments on Dniprovsky Avenue, and people said that on the last non-flooded street in [the village of] Dnipriany, there are facts of what was done two or three months ago: forced eviction," Kovalenko said. The situation in the village of Korsunka, which is part of Nova Kakhovka, is "much more difficult and terrible", the official reports.

"It [the village of Korsunka] is situated in a much lower area. I just spoke with a resident of Korsunka: no one informed the residents that there was flooding. Evacuation was not organised at all, and the water level in this village reached three metres.

Today, some of the flooded houses collapsed, they were made of clay. The gymnasium was flooded, the monastery, the library, the club, and the cemetery was washed out. I don't want to believe it, but this woman says: 'I saw dead people and coffins floating around the city'," said the mayor of Nova Kakhovka.

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According to him, most people left Korsunka on their own, local residents organised and took them out by boat. At the same time, according to Kovalenko, representatives of the occupation administration asked people if they had Russian passports and offered to "go to Chelyabinsk". Currently, according to the mayor, the water in Korsunka has gradually begun to subside: "Out of those 3 metres, 80 centimetres are already gone."

Background:

• On the morning of 6 June, Ukraine's Operational Command Pivden (South) reported that Russian occupation forces had blown up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP), completely destroying the dam and the power plant's turbine hall. The draining of the Kakhovka Reservoir threatens the safety of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
• The destruction of the Kakhovka HPP has caused an ecological catastrophe. Water from the reservoir has begun to flood towns and villages, and evacuations of local residents from dangerous areas have begun.

  As a result of the explosion, there are also problems with the drinking water supply in the towns of Kryvyi Rih, Marhanets and Nikopol.

• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasised that the recent disaster at the Kakhovka HPP created by the Russians will not stop Ukraine from liberating its own territory and has not increased the occupiers' chances of staying on this land..
• After the explosion of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, the Kazkova Dibrova Zoo in Nova Kakhovka, where about 300 animals lived, was flooded.

  Most of them died.

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