Acting Governor of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo said that 5,000 people were evacuated from the territory of the region due to the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. wrote about him telegraph channel.
“The number of evacuees at the moment <…> It reached 5,000 people,” he said.
He explained that among them 178 children and 62 people with limited mobility.
“About a thousand people out of the total number of evacuees are in temporary shelters until this time,” the publication says.
According to Saldo, 62 people from the affected areas have been hospitalized.
Andrey Alekseenko, former head of the government of the Kherson region declarationThat after the breakthrough of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, the most difficult situation with regard to flooding is now preserved in Aleshki and Gola Pristan.
Later Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed With the stability of the situation in the region due to the breaking of the dam at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. The President gave instructions and asked the local people to analyze what they needed.