Three deaths due to flooding in temporarily occupied Oleshky — the Mayor

In the temporarily occupied town of Oleshky, Kherson region, there are the first deaths caused by flooding after the Russian blowing up of the Kakhovka HPP.

The mayor of Oleshky, Yevhen Ryshchuk, reported this.

"When the Antonivskyi bridge was blown up, the occupiers took away all the boats. There are no boats in the city. People are self-organising and have started rescuing others from the roofs. There is information that the Russians do not let people out of the flooded settlements. They are torturing people," Ryshchuk says.

According to the mayor, the Russian Ministry of Emergency is not helping people evacuate. More than 300 people have gathered in the local hospital seeking shelter.

It will be recalled that on June 6, volunteers reported to the ZMINA Human Rights Centre that Russians were blocking the evacuation from Oleshky for people without Russian passports. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also said Russians were not trying to help people in the temporarily occupied territories.