7,100 people were evacuated from the flooded territories up until June 11th, including 410 children and 95 people with reduced mobility. Another 150 were saved on Sunday, according to Saldo’s Telegram channel.

Defense Ministry specialists began vaccinating residents of the Golopristanski and Skadovski municipal districts of Kherson.

Saldo affirmed that the delivery of humanitarian aid such as food, bottled drinking water and basic necessities continues. According to his report, about a thousand people from various ministries and departments have arrived from different regions of Russia and are participating in the rescue operation.

“The peak of the flood has passed. The water level continues to go down: it has gone down five meters in the Novokakhovsk urban district, and 1.5 meters in the Golopristanski and Alyoshkinski municipal districts,” he stated.

Ukrainian troops launched a series of artillery strikes on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station in the early morning of June 6th, causing the water gates to give way under the pressure of the water.

“One of the goals of Kiev’s undermining of the Kakhovka dam was to deprive the Crimean peninsula of water,” said Russian Presidency spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

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