State Emergency Service: 2,339 residents evacuated from Kherson Oblast.

According to the State Emergency Service, 2,339 people, including 120 children, were evacuated[1] from the flooded areas of Kherson Oblast by June 8, 8:45 local time. Some 563 people, including 28 children, were saved from immediate danger. On the right bank of the Dnipro River, the area that is under Ukrainian control, a total of 32 settlements and 3,625 houses were affected by the flood.

About 1,817 people are involved in the liquidation of the consequences. Russian forces destroyed the Kakhovka dam [2] on June 6, causing massive floods in southern Ukraine. Earlier on June 8, Kherson Oblast Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said that 600 square kilometers[3] of the oblast had gone underwater, and the average water level had reached 5.61 meters.

Rescue and evacuation services in flooded areas of Kherson Oblast on June 8, 2023. (Photo: State Emergency Service/Telegram)

Martin Fornusek

News Editor

Martin Fornusek is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent.

He has previously worked as a news content editor at the media company Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press.

He also volunteers as an editor and translator at the Czech-language version of Ukrainer.

Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, holding a bachelor's degree in security studies and history and a master's degree in conflict and democracy studies.

References

^ evacuated (t.me)
^ destroyed the Kakhovka dam (kyivindependent.com)
^ 600 square kilometers (kyivindependent.com)