13 settlements flooded in Mykolaiv region, one person killed - Regional Council member

She said this on Espreso TV. 

“In the Mykolaiv region, 13 settlements located next to the Kherson region are suffering from flooding. This is the area of our long-suffering Snihurivka, which has been under occupation for 9 months. The district center itself was not flooded, but 5 wells that supply Snihurivka with drinking water were flooded. I should note that only after the de-occupation was the water supply restored, and now people are without water again,” said the deputy of the Mykolaiv Regional Council.

Viktoriia Moskalenko added that aid is constantly being provided to Snihurivka and the district. Water, hot food, generators for electricity are being brought in, because there are people who refuse to evacuate and stay in the middle of the field, saying that they have survived the occupation and will survive the flood.

“In the settlements of the Mykolaiv region, 540 houses are completely flooded. And if we take the total number of victims and those places where we cannot get to, we will have about 4,000 households. We have evacuated 680 people, including 123 children, from the flooded area. One person has died since the flooding, because he refused to evacuate; the deceased's house was in a place of rapid flooding, so unfortunately, a man in his 50s died,” Moskalenko said.

The situation in the south of Ukraine after the Kakhovka dam explosion 

On June 6, occupying Russian forces blew up the Kakhovka HPP, completely destroying it.  Evacuation efforts have begun to move residents away from the flooded areas. After that, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy convened an emergency meeting of the Security and Defense Council, and the world began to respond to the tragedy. Follow the detailed course of events here.

Flooding was reported in four districts of Mykolaiv on Tuesday evening. The water level rose by 82 cm, leading to the destruction and flooding of bridges and gardens in the region.

As of June 8, the water level in Mykolaiv rose to 102 cm. On Friday, the water level in Mykolaiv continued to be monitored. Overnight it dropped by 2 cm, and in the morning by another 3 cm.

On the morning of June 10, the water level in Mykolaiv was 88 centimeters. During the night, the water level in Mykolaiv, which was flooded as a result of the blowing up of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, dropped.

Already on June 11, the level of flooding in the Mykolaiv region continued to decline.