Ukraine’s rescue operations and the aftermath of the Kakhovka dam disaster. In photos.
Since the Kakhovka dam collapsed on June 6, Ukraine has been working to rescue residents from flooded parts of Ukraine’s Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. More than 70 settlements and thousands of homes are estimated to be located downstream from the Kakhovka HPP. Thousands of local residents have already been evacuated. According to reports by both the Ukrainian authorities and the Russian occupation authorities, at least 13 people have died in the flooding. Volunteers who have evacuated residents from Russian-occupied territory estimate that the number of dead is actually much higher. The dam breach has also caused an ecological catastrophe, which could lead to (or may have already led to) a mass death of animals.
AP / Scanpix / LETA The destroyed dam at the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP). June 7, 2023.One of the Kakhovka HPP’s buildings. June 8, 2023.A Lenin statue on Dniprovsky Avenue in Nova Kakhovka, located in Russian-occupied territory. June 6, 2023.AP / Scanpix / LETA The settlement of Dnipriany, located in Russian-occupied territory. June 7, 2023.AP / Scanpix / LETA Flooded houses in Dnipriany, located on the left bank of the Dnipro River in Russian-occupied territory. Dnipriany is downstream from the Kakhovka HPP. June 7, 2023.DPS Ukraine / Scanpix / LETA An image taken from a drone used by Ukraine’s Armed Forces on June 8, 2023. The image shows a boy named Maksym who, along with his mother and sister, were waiting to be rescued in the attic of their flooded home in Oleshky. Ukrainian soldiers first used the drone to give them drinking water, before evacuating them to Kherson.Olexander Kornyakov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Kherson. June 7, 2023.Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA A resident of Korsunka on a flooded street, located in Russian-occupied territory. On June 7, Vladimir Leontyev, the Russian-installed “mayor” of Nova Kakhovka, reported that Korsunka was completely underwater.The village of Korsunka. June 7, 2023.The city of Hola Prystan, located on Russian-annexed territory. June 9, 2023.Mykolo Tymchenko / EPA / Scanpix / LETA A house in the village of Sadove near the mouth of the Inhulets River, the Dnipro’s right tributary. The village is under Ukrainian control. June 8, 2023. Roman Hrytsyna / AP / Scanpix / LETA Kherson residents on an inflatable boat on a flooded city street. June 7, 2023.Daniel Carde / ZUMA Press Wire / Scanpix / LETA Kherson. June 8, 2023.Andre Alves / Anadolu Agency / ABACAPRESS / ddp images / Vida Press Rescue workers are pictured with the body of a Kherson resident. June 7, 2023.Alex Babenko / Getty Images Kherson residents escape the flooding. June 7, 2023.Matthew Hatcher / SOPA Images / LightRocket / Getty Images A Kherson resident carries bedding out of her flooded home. Evgeniy Maloletka / AP / Scanpix / LETA Kherson. June 6, 2023.Alex Babenko / Getty Images Kherson. June 7, 2023.Alex Babenko / Getty Images Photographs from a family photo album dry in an attic. Kherson. June 7, 2023.Felipe Dana / AP / Scanpix / LETA Kherson. June 7, 2023.Yan Dobronosov / Global Images Ukraine / Getty Images Kherson. June 8, 2023.Felipe Dana / AP / Scanpix / LETA Rescue workers tow boats holding residents from flooded areas of Kherson. June 6, 2023.Ivan Antypenko / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Kherson. June 7, 2023.Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA The city of Hola Prystan, located in Russian-occupied territory. June 8, 2023.Felipe Dana / AP / Scanpix / LETA Kherson residents hide from Russian shelling during evacuations from the flooding. June 6, 2023.Felipe Dana / AP / Scanpix / LETA Kherson. June 6, 2023.State Emergency Service of Ukraine A hedgehog saved by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. Kherson. June 8, 2023.Aleksey Filippov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Kherson. June 8, 2023.Muhammed Enes Yildirim / Anadolu Agency / ABACAPRESS /ddp images / Vida Press Kherson. June 7, 2023.Valentyna Gurova / Suspilne Ukraine / JSC "UA:PBC" / Global Images Ukraine / Getty Images The Korabel district of Kherson. June 6, 2023.AFP / Scanpix / LETA Serhiy Ludinskyi, a volunteer, rescues a duck. Kherson. June 8, 2023.Libkos / AP / Scanpix / LETA A Kherson resident and her pet evacuate by boat. June 8, 2023.George Ivanchenko / EPA / Scanpix / LETA Kherson. June 7, 2023.Sergiy Chalyi / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA A mass death of fish was reported after the Kakhovka reservoir’s water levels dropped. The image was captured in the town of Marianske in the Dnipropetrovsk region. June 7, 2023.
