“We have 10 dead in Kherson and the region… We also have 41 missing,” Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko announced on the Telegram social network.
The Kakhovka Dam, located in an area under Russian control, was destroyed on June 6, flooding hundreds of square kilometers downstream, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents and heightening fears of a humanitarian and environmental catastrophe.
The previous balance of the Ukrainian authorities, on Sunday, accounted for six dead and 35 missing.
The governor of the Kherson region, Olexandr Prokudin, also reported in Telegram the discovery of two new bodies of victims in the city, the capital of the region of the same name.
“An unidentified woman and a 50-year-old man were found drowned in one of the city’s neighborhoods,” he said.
The governor had announced the day before that three people had been killed by shelling from the Russian army on a lifeboat evacuating civilians.
Ukraine accused Russia of deliberately destroying the dam to block the way into this southern region for its troops preparing a counter-offensive, but Russia assured that the dam collapsed after Ukrainian bombings.
Source: DN
