Kakhovka HPP explosion: over 3,000 people are evacuated - Zelenskyy

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his evening video address.

“As of now, over 3,000 people have been evacuated from the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. But again, this is only a free territory controlled by us. In the occupied territory, only in some areas are we able to help people: Russian terrorists are doing everything to make the number of victims of the disaster as high as possible,” he noted.

At the same time, Russian shelling continues there even at the evacuation points.

“Russia does not provide any real assistance to people in the flooded areas - not for the sake of propaganda, but for the sake of people. The Russian state and the Russian leadership must bear separate, fair and strict responsibility for all this,” Zelenskyy emphasized.

The president called on international organizations to “work where we have not yet de-occupied our territories.”

“Every life is important - the whole Kherson region, the whole south. Every city and village. We will do everything possible, everything impossible, to ensure that all our people receive help,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy assured.

•  As of Saturday morning June 10, 2,588 people have been evacuated from the flooded areas as a result of the Kakhovka HPP destruction