Flood victims in Russian-occupied areas of southern Ukraine described scenes of panic and desperation on Wednesday, with residents trapped in their homes and no sign of emergency responders in the area.
KYIV, Ukraine — Flood victims in Russian-occupied areas of southern Ukraine described scenes of panic and desperation Wednesday, with residents trapped in their homes and no sign of emergency responders in the area.“The entire street is sitting on their roofs, begging for help. The animals are drowning and howling,” one woman from Oleshky, an occupied Ukrainian town on the east bank of the Dnieper River, told The Washington Post, communicating via the Telegram messaging app.
“The authorities there are not helping. They are just impeding the process as they are not letting buses and boats that we paid for to go through to volunteers,” said Yaroslav Vasyliev, who created a Telegram evacuation chat for Oleshky after hours of trying to get through to a branch of Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations, hoping to save his father, who was stuck on the roof of the family home.
The town’s mayor, who would give only her first name, Ekaterina, said volunteers were stuck in the town because of shelling by the Ukrainian side. Her account could not be verified. “The situation is awful. The water level has risen above the fence,” said Stuklalo, adding that she was on a street a few hundred meters from the river. “There are two of us. The other person has Type 2 diabetes,” she said. “We have enough food at the moment.
The head of Russian-occupied Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, had played down the risk of flooding Tuesday, saying in a video that people continued to go about their day and move through the streets calmly. As he spoke, administrative building behind him was slowly being overtaken by muddy water.
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