Volodymyr Saldo, the Russian-appointed governor of the Kherson region, says people in Novaya Kakhovka are “calmly moving through the streets” after a nearby dam was blown up and the town flooded. At the same time, you can see the flooded streets behind him.

Volodymyr Saldo says that people are moving through the streets, and Kherson is floodedPhoto: video shooting

“Nova Kakhovka and all the cities downstream, such as Oleshki, Gola Prystan, Kherson and other settlements, live normally. People move calmly through the streets. Some gas stations and even shops are working,” said Saldo.

He even said that he was driving around the city.

As he spoke, the city could be seen flooding behind him.

Later, the Russians admitted that the small town of Oleshki was flooded and they are trying to evacuate it.

The small town of Olesk, located on the southern bank of the Russian-controlled Dnipro River in Ukraine’s Kherson region, was almost completely flooded after a dam in Novaya Kakhovka was blown up, a Russian-appointed regional official said on Tuesday.

“Evacuation… is possible only with the help of special equipment,” Andrii Alekseenko, the head of the government appointed by Russia in the Kherson region of Ukraine, said in Telegram.

The dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP on the Dnieper was blown up in the morning of June 6, which provoked a large-scale humanitarian and environmental disaster in the south of Ukraine.

Built in 1956, the power plant is of crucial importance for the energy infrastructure of Ukraine. According to the State Hydroelectric Company of Ukraine, the damage caused by the violation is “irreparable”.

Computer simulations last year showed how a possible failure of the dam in Novaya Kakhovka would cause widespread flooding along the banks of the Dnieper and its tributary to the mouth of the Black Sea.

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