Russian forces appear not to care about the plight of inundated residents
in Kherson region. Most of it is under water. Her friends survived only by climbing onto rooftops. They had asked Russian forces to help them evacuate, but were met with indifference. “My eyes are burning from tears,” Natalya says. “I’ve been crying all night.”
Gafar Safronov, who is 39, last spoke to his godmother in Oleshky on June 7th at 7pm. The scarcely audible phone call was enough to find out that she was alive—but that her ducks, chickens and pigs were not. They drowned in the flooding, which had come on too quickly for her to do anything to save them. His godmother was now on the first floor of the partly submerged building. There were even rumours of corpses floating in town.
In Hola Prystan, a town further down from the dam, residents were offered an early chance to evacuate, says Anna Ivanova, after speaking to her parents who remained in the area. But at first, the flooding was not bad enough to move; many chose to follow official advice suggesting that peak water flows would come by midday on June 6th. As a result, only 30 of an estimated 6,000 people evacuated. Then came inundation.
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