Due to Russia's explosion of Kakhovka HPP, at least 8 people drown in occupied Oleshky

Oleshky Mayor Yevhen Ryshchuk told Ukrinform.

“There are already victims - drowned people. They have started to surface en masse,” he said.

According to him, he is currently aware that eight bodies were brought to the hospital. Witnesses also reported seeing a body floating through a house window on one of the streets.

• Earlier, the mayor of Oleshky reported three deaths as a result of the flooding. The Russian forces did not allow the residents to evacuate.

• In the afternoon, on June 8, Russians shelled a school building where residents of Oleshky were escaping from flooding.