Black Sea beaches that before the war attracted thousands of tourists around the world are now animal cemeteries and garbage dumps due to the bursting of a dam in Ukraine.
The southern reaches of the Dnieper River are likely to return to their banks by June 16 after large floods caused by bursting Kahovka Dam in Ukraine this Sunday, an official appointed by Moscow said on Saturday. The flood hit towns and villages below the dam, trapping residents and destroying entire homes on both sides of the river, which separates the Kherson region into two parts controlled by Ukraine and of Russia.
Vladimir Saldo, who manages the Russian-controlled part, said it was the water level in Nova Kahovka, a town next to the dam, has dropped by three meters since Tuesday when it was at its peak. “Water was pumped out and garbage was removed from the streets,” he said, adding that more than 6,000 people were evacuated from the flooded parts of Nova Kahovka and from the towns of Oleški and Gola Pristanj, which are located near the mouth of the river.
He said that the preliminary calculations of the Russian electricity producer RusHidro show that it will Return the Dnieper below the destroyed Kahovka thermal power plant to its normal flow by June 16. Saldo also accused Ukraine of shelling temporary shelters for people displaced by the floods, saying one woman had died in the attacks. He announced photo of the destroyed building, stating that it is a hotel.
Reuters could not independently confirm the shelling allegations, which echo similar claims made in recent days. Kiev, which has accused Moscow of shelling civilians in flooded territory under its control, did not immediately comment on the Russian allegations. Ukraine has accused Russia of destroying the hydroelectric plant and dam, which has been under Russian control since the first weeks of the war, in what Moscow calls a “special military operation” that began more than a year ago. Moscow, on the other hand, accused Ukraine, writes Jutarnji list.
The governor of Crimea, which Moscow seized and annexed from Ukraine in 2014, specifically said that Russian air defenses shot down two Ukrainian ballistic missiles and that there were no damage or casualties.
In Odesa region Border Guards keep track of the aftermarh of Russian ecocide: the sea is turning into a landfill and a cemetery for animals from Kherson region. Buildings, furniture, appliances, cars are floating in the sea after the destruction of Kakhovka dam. Fish are…pic.twitter.com/fVGC4yYsjP
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During that time, Odessa was hit by an environmental disaster. Beaches in the Black Sea that before the war attracted thousands of tourists around the world are now animal cemeteries and garbage dumps. Buildings, furniture, appliances and cars are floating in the sea after the collapse of the Kahovka dam. Fish are dying en masse, and worst of all is that they are mines floated in from the Kherson region.
(WORLD)