It is difficult to write this tweet because at this moment water is taking lives and homes of my friends, and relatives in Oleshky city.
Мені складно писати цей твіт бо в цей час вода забирає життя моїх рідних, друзів в м. Олешки, #Kherson
🧶tred
!ретвіт вітається
Perhaps the least but not last that we can do remotely is to talk about ALL the people on the left bank, spread information in foreign media, and keep attention to the amount of the catastrophe caused by the russians after they made an explosion on the Kakhovka Hydroelectric dam.
Currently (as of 07.06.2023), the city of Oleshky looks like an island where survivors are huddled together, while all surrounding villages are completely flooded.
In the areas that were flooded first yesterday, there are floating corpses (plural!) ...
...of people who couldn't survive waiting for evacuation. These are elderly and ill people, disabled individuals, and those injured by the flood. Those who were still on rooftops yesterday and were washed away by the current or flooded inside their homes during the night.
The city chats pleading (!) for help have not stopped for the second day.
In parallel with this, artillery duels continue in the city and its outskirts, so it is not easy on the rooftops and top floors of buildings. Can you imagine the atmosphere?!
Local people gather in groups, occupy the last dry areas in the central parts of the city, and help each other with the evacuation of those who have been floating in the flooded single-story buildings for a long time.
The situation is worse in the surrounding villages (Solontsi, Saha, Pidstepne) - the current and high water level make evacuation impossible with rubber boats that get swept away.
I see in the chats how for the second day they BEG for help for Grandfather Vasyl and his wife from Kvitkova Street, 13 (46.613161, 32.745101). They have run out of drinking water, and being washed off the roof. He is ready to swim next to the boat if they allow him to hold on...
I lost direct contact with Oleshky yesterday between 7-9 in the morning. It surprised me VERY much that almost no one there knew about the explosion of the hydroelectric power station. Most people started realizing something when the first water approached in the morning.
But could anyone from the locals imagine the scale and consequences on the second day while being in an information vacuum?!
It's terrifying to imagine what tomorrow will bring because not everyone managed to stock up on drinking water and food, or it simply got washed away.
Let's not forget about the sanitation situation in the city - consumption of dirty water mixed with sewage, waste, etc. The population is at risk of facing epidemics such as cholera, dysentery, hepatitis A...
And what about the russians?
According to reports from local chats, yesterday evening they blocked the city's exits and shelled evacuation boats.
Doesn't that sounds like genocide?!
Left bank of the Dnipro river! We will not forgive russians for this
We are with you!
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