The morning of June 6th, 2023, russian occupying forces blew up the dam of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant. Due to the destruction of this hydroelectric power station, the lives of people and animals, as well as the unique ecosystem of the Kherson region, have been devastated.

According to the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group:

Throughout the world, such actions against nuclear or hydro-electric power plants cannot be viewed as anything but acts of terrorism.

Judging by the reports coming from Kherson oblast, the Russian invaders are also doing little to rescue residents of places on the left bank of the Dnipro under Russian occupation. They are, reportedly, prohibiting people from trying to evacuate themselves, with the only alternative they offer being ‘evacuation’ to Russia, According to Yury Sobolevsky, First Deputy Head of the Kherson Regional Council, the Russian military are not helping residents to escape the flooding, and are instead obstructing volunteers trying to help others to evacuate. There have even been reports of the military attempting to extort money for ‘permission’ to leave in boats or free people clinging for their lives to roofs, which are often all that remain above water.

While western media largely ‘play safe’ and report that Kyiv and Moscow ‘are blaming each other’ for the horrific disaster, the Russian invaders are actively destroying other dams in occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia oblast.

In the meantime, the Ukrainian government, first responders, and volunteers are working to save the inhabitants of flooded land.

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