The incident has forced Ukraine to evacuate over 17,000 people from flooded areas so far, Andriy Kostin, Ukraine’s prosecutor general, said. According to Ukrainian authorities, some 40,000 civilians will need to be evacuated in total.
, whose military has occupied the area. Ukraine described it as an act of “ecocide,” and called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council.
Videos and photos from the area shared on social media showed apocalyptic scenes, with homes and vehicles underwater, and local residents rushing to rescue their pets from the rising flood waters.. “It’s hard for me to say the fate of the animals that were there,” Nova Kakhovka Mayor Volodymyr Kovalenko told local media.that at least three villages had been completely swallowed up by the flooding. More than 1,300 people had been evacuated by 3 p.m. local time.
Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, said in a video posted to Telegram it will take mere hours—within five—for the water to reach “critical levels.”
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