Volunteers confirmed the death of more than 20 people on the left bank of the Dnieper. More than 150 people are missing

On the Russian-occupied left bank of the Dnieper, more than 20 people who died in the flood have been identified, more than 150 people are listed as missing after the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, volunteers told Important Stories.

“We are trying to collect numerical lists of the missing and dead. I can say this: it was necessary to save more and faster, and the admission of volunteers definitely should have been done. The missing are not necessarily the dead, they are those who have no contact with their relatives. There are at least a hundred of them. There are dozens of dead - more than 20. We record the death of people when we know the first, last, and patronymic name of a particular person,” said Maria (name changed), a member of the volunteer group.

In the lists of missing persons and dead, which “Important Stories” was able to review, more than 150 people are listed as missing. According to the occupation authorities, eight people have died since the dam collapsed. Thus, the total number of confirmed victims may exceed 28 people.

At the same time, exact data on the number of deaths will become known only after the water recedes, she notes. The most difficult situation is observed on Nizhnyaya Street in Aleshki and in Solontsy near Gola Pristan.

Sometimes volunteers work under fire. The occupation authorities of the Kherson region say that the shelling of evacuation boats is carried out by Ukrainian Armed Forces. Maria could not say with certainty from which side the shelling was coming.

Volunteer Diana Ramazanova, who purchases boats in Moscow for the Ministry of Emergency Situations, in an interview with “Important Stories”, says that Russian security forces refuse to allow volunteers to go to the disaster site precisely because of the shelling. Ramazanova claims that such information was provided to her by a “curator” from among the rescuers.

Now, according to Maria, about 600 evacuees have been taken to three safe places. Volunteers have currently collected almost 1,900 active requests for evacuation. The head of the occupation administration, Vladimir Saldo, reports the evacuation of 5,800 people, including 243 children.

According to volunteers, at the time of publication of this note, at least 74 people in Solontsy need emergency evacuation - they could die tomorrow. Among them are elderly people and children.

Earlier, volunteer coordinator Yaroslav Vasiliev stated that Russian Emergency Situations Ministry employees were taking away boats from volunteers and refusing to evacuate people without Russian passports. Maria clarifies that Russian security forces took the motors for the boats and did not let the volunteers through - in this case, the boats were handed over to the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

“There was a situation when they couldn’t pick up someone in Aleshki, but, as far as I know, it had nothing to do with a Russian passport, but with the fact that the boat was not equipped to take a very heavy person,” says the volunteer.

At the same time, a relative of residents in the Golopristansky district who needed to be evacuated told “Important Stories” that the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations refused to save members of his family.

“They were on the roof, they said that the water was rising there. Nobody wants to evacuate them. The Russian side refused. The Ministry of Emergency Situations said that this is too far away, goodbye, we are not going to save anyone, if you want, save yourself,” said a man named Victor.

The ASTRA telegram channel reports that now more than 40 people are awaiting rescue in Karadashinka on the left bank of the Dnieper. A relative of residents stuck in Karadashinka claims that the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations first of all evacuates citizens of the Russian Federation and only then people with Ukrainian passports. In the chat where requests for evacuation are collected, volunteers do not confirm messages about refusal to leave flooded areas without a Russian passport.

Volunteer group member Maria notes that volunteers do not have a high-quality exchange of information with the Ministry of Emergency Situations, although volunteers are ready to provide rescuers with lists of victims and evacuation maps. “I can’t say that the Ministry of Emergency Situations is not working. To say that the Ministry of Emergency Situations works perfectly is the same. The ideal job would be to let volunteers pass,” she says.

According to Maria, from the first day the Ministry of Emergency Situations employees worked with very small forces, but by June 8 they had about 30 boats. Also, according to unconfirmed reports, rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations allegedly do not work at night.

On the morning of June 6, immediately after the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station dam, the evacuation of residents began on the Ukrainian-controlled right bank of the Dnieper .

Initially, Russian authorities stated that a full evacuation of the left bank of the Dnieper, where were from 22 to 40 thousand people in the disaster zone, would not be necessary. Vladimir Putin ordered the dispatch of EMERCOM detachments to the occupied and flooded Kherson region only two days after the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. Four days later, on June 9, Putin ordered the creation of a commission to eliminate the consequences of the flood.

The occupation authorities of the Kherson region reported that they were evacuating people from Korsunka and Dnepryan, and the cities of Aleshki and Golaya Pristan were completely flooded, and evacuation from there was only possible using special equipment.