Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmigal appealed to the leadership of the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international humanitarian organizations regarding the blowing up of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station by Russian troops. He announced this in his Telegram channel..

According to him, dozens of settlements were flooded as a result of this terrible terrorist attack.. The Ukrainian authorities organized the evacuation from the territory of the Kherson region controlled by it. However, on the left bank, under temporary occupation, people are abandoned by the Russians to their fate: hundreds of houses literally disappeared under water, people are forced to leave flooded houses on their own, and those who are not able to find themselves trapped in the elements.

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“International humanitarian organizations must intervene immediately. We urge to take upon ourselves the evacuation of people from the territories of Kherson occupied by Russians. It is necessary to save the lives of people whom the occupiers doomed to death,"

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky also criticized the reaction to the undermining of the hydroelectric power station by international organizations that should take care of people's lives..

The mayor of the temporarily occupied Oleshek Kherson region, Evgeny Ryshchuk, said that he had received confirmed information about the first dead citizens in the city as a result of the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station and large-scale flooding.