Help is slow in coming to a flooded Oleshky, a Russian\u002Doccupied town across the Dnieper River from the city of Kherson.
Details of life in Russian-occupied Ukraine are often unclear. The AP could not independently verify reports of boat seizures or that only Russians were being evacuated, but the account is in line with reporting by independent Russian media.
The latest disaster began Tuesday, when the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, roughly 80 kilometres upstream from Oleshky, collapsed, sending torrents of water down the Dnieper River and across the war’s front lines. A drone flown Wednesday by an AP team over the dam’s wreckage revealed none of the scorch marks or shrapnel scars typical of a bombardment. The bulk of the dam itself is now submerged, and The AP images offered a limited snapshot, making it difficult to rule out any scenario. The dam also had been weakened by Russian neglect and water had been washing over it for weeks. It had been under Russian control since the invasion in February 2022.
“People who suffered from the flooding have been killed by the shelling, including a pregnant woman,” Peskov said. Ryshchuk fled after Russian forces tried to force him to collaborate, but he remains in close contact with people in and around the city.Article content “That’s it,” he said. “Yesterday, some Russians came in the morning, took a few people off the roofs, filmed a video, and left. That’s everything they have done as of today.”Article contentUkrainian military footage, for instance, showed their forces dropping a bottle of water from a drone to a boy trapped with his mother and sister in the attic of their home near Oleshky. Ukrainian soldiers later evacuated the family and their pets to the city of Kherson, National Police reported.
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