Ukrainian officials said water levels in areas flooded after the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station had begun to fall.
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On the right bank, 35 settlements remain flooded, 3,763 houses are under water, but the water is gradually subsiding, said Alexander Prokudin, head of the Kherson military administration.
Flooding caused by damage to the Kakhovka dam early on Tuesday forced thousands of people to flee their homes, disrupted water supplies and threatened an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe.
According to Prokudin, the water level in his region during Friday fell from an average of 5.38 to 5 meters.
According to him, 2,588 people were evacuated from the Kherson region.
As of the evening of June 9, the water level in Kherson dropped by 60 cm, in the villages of Kazatsky, Vesele and temporarily occupied Nova Kakhovka – by 1.5 m. The situation remains critical in the occupied territory.
During the evacuation of residents from the flooded territories, the Russians fired again at Kherson – three people were injured.
Vitaly Kim, a colleague of Prokudin in the Nikolaev region, said that the water level there also began to fall.
Source: Racurs
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