GENICHESK, June 14. /TASS/. The water levels are back to practically normal in the Alyoshki and Golaya Pristan districts of the Kherson Region, which were flooded after last week’s Kakhovka dam collapse, the acting governor of the region, Vladimir Saldo, said on Wednesday.
"Water levels in the Alyoshki and Golaya Pristan municipal districts have subsided to practically zero, standing at 0.1 and 0.25 meters, respectively. In the Novaya Kakhovka urban district, the water level remained practically unchanged, at five meters," the official wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to Saldo, more than 760 applications for one-time subsistence support for those affected by the incident have been received by the authorities so far. Payments will be disbursed starting from June 14.
On the morning of June 6, the Ukrainian military launched a missile attack on the Kakhovka HPP, which resulted in the destruction of gate sluice valves at the HPP’s dam, triggering an uncontrolled discharge of water. People are being evacuated from settlements in the flood zone. The destruction of the hydropower plant has caused serious environmental damage with farmlands along the Dnieper River being washed away. Additionally, there is a risk that the North Crimean Canal may run low and become too shallow.
Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the strike on the Kakhovka dam as an act of deliberate sabotage by Ukrainian forces, adding that the Kiev regime should bear full responsibility for its consequences.