Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the Russian rescuers selflessly acted to save the people in the Kherson region after the breakthrough of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.
“Reports keep coming. Our lifeboats are at work. The difficulty is that they have to work in conditions of bombardment by Ukraine. But the main task is to save people, our rescuers do it selflessly, ”Peskov said.
the previous day reportedRussian President Vladimir Putin reportedly instructed Alexander Kurenkov, the head of the Ministry of Emergencies, to organize work in the flood zone in the Kherson region due to the collapse of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station to help people affected by the disaster.
Volunteer Evgeny Kuzmin from St. Petersburg said “Gazeta.ru” said that those who were flooded after the collapse of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station Golay Pristan should be evacuated under the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to Kuzmin, the situation in the city is critical, the rescuers do not have enough radios and special equipment for faster work.
On June 6, it became known that the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in the Nova Kakhovka district in the Kherson region was destroyed. Some settlements, including the city of Kherson, began to flood. Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of breaking the dam.