Emergency services and volunteers are helping pets as well as people. Sadly, no one was able to save the animals at Nova Kakhovka zoo—all except the birds are said to have drowned
tanding in jazzy pyjamas by her front gate, Nadya tries to work out whether the stinking flood water is about to creep over her garden wall. Her husband is disabled and doesn’t want to leave their home, but the neighbours’ house downhill is already submerged up to the roof. She has been trying to call them to offer help but no one answers.
Rescuers wear wetsuits or galoshes, with a flak jacket on top, as Russia continues to target the area On Thursday morning President Volodymyr Zelensky, accompanied by soldiers, paid a surprise visit to the main evacuation point, where he was briefed by the head of the local administration. Shortly afterwards, everyone was urged to leave the area due to rumours that shelling would start. That afternoon a rocket crashed into the water a few feet away from the evacuation point and another hit a building nearby.
Fire-engine-red amphibious vehicles, their huge wheels churning through the floodwater, transport elderly and vulnerable people to waiting paramedics. A woman helping to co-ordinate the rescue effort told me that only 20% of the people stuck in Kherson have so far been evacuated. Many of them had not wanted to leave, saying they had nowhere to go, so they stayed, hoping the waters would subside. Volunteers bring them food, water and medicine, and staff an emergency hotline.
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