The occupiers do not organize the evacuation of the civilian population of the areas temporarily occupied by them, suffering from flooding as a result of the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, Permanent Representative of Ukraine Serhiy Kyslitsa noted during a meeting of the UN Security Council convened at the request of Ukraine.

“It is worrying that the Russian occupiers are not organizing the evacuation of the civilian population, although they have withdrawn their troops,” he said..

He said that in the territory of the Kherson region controlled by Ukraine, it is planned to evacuate 17 settlements, where more than 17 thousand people live.. In the occupied regions, 20 cities and villages with a population of about 25,000 are subject to evacuation.. At the same time, the left bank, the occupied part, will suffer eight times more than the right bank, and the maximum flooding of the territory will occur within 3-5 days.

Such settlements as Oleshki and Naked Pristan may be under water. Partial flooding may affect Aleksandrovka, Shirokaya Balka, Sofiyivka, Grape and other villages. The water level can rise 1.5m or more.

The situation in the temporarily occupied Oleshki in the Kherson region is almost catastrophic. In local chats, people beg for help and are forced to flee from the rising water on the roofs of their houses.

Kislitsa also spoke about the consequences of the destruction of the dam, as a result of which Crimea and the Kherson region may be significantly deprived or limited in water supply.

Problems may also arise in the Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions: a decrease in the water level in the Kakhovka reservoir will affect all water intakes of nearby regions, in particular, the Kakhovka canal, which provides water to the occupied Berdyansk and many other settlements of the Zaporozhye region.

The UN called the dam explosion the most significant incident with damage to civilian infrastructure since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.