The number of people who died after the destruction of the Kakhovsky hydroelectric power station and large -scale flooding of territories in the Kherson region of Ukraine to 48 people grew. TASS was reported on Monday about emergency services.
“Found the bodies of two more people, the total number of dead reached 48. The number of victims also increased: 126 people were hospitalized in total,” the agency’s interlocutor said.
Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region of Ukraine was destroyed on the morning of June 6. The parties impose responsibility for the breakthrough of the dam.
Ukrainian media reports that the country’s government allocated 565 million hryvnias to help the victims due to flooding in the Kherson and Nikolaev regions.
The Ministry of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine previously stated that the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station can lead to the fact that the fields in the south of Ukraine will turn into deserts next year.
“The terrorist act at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station actually left without a water source 94 percent of irrigation systems in Kherson, 74 percent in Zaporizhzhya and 30 percent in the Dnipropetrovsk regions,” follows the message.
It was also reported a few days earlier in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that the sanitary and epidemiological situation in a number of settlements of the Kherson region sharply worsened as a result of the collapse of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.
“In particular, due to the lack of access of the civilian population to adequate medicines and high-quality water, outbreaks of viral hepatitis A are noted in home centers, as well as the threat of the spread of other viral diseases. In turn, Russian occupiers do not recognize an increase in the number of diseases and vice versa and vice versa Trying to hide this. Measures to stabilize the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the region are not carried out, ”follows from the message.