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Six settlements in the Kherson region remain flooded after the Russian army blew up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant dam, causing a large-scale flood. As many as 1,274 houses remain under water, and 16 people have been killed, with 31 people still missing. Explosives specialists have examined almost 310 hectares of territory where water could carry explosives, with four explosive items discovered and neutralized there.
The Russian side is not evacuating people after the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, instead using information from the Ukrainian side and passing it off as its own work. The State Border Guard Service units involved in the evacuation of the victims evacuated about 100 people. The Russian army attacked a boat with civilians who had evacuated from the left bank of the Kherson region.
A mission from the International Criminal Court has arrived in the Kherson region to investigate the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant by the Russian army. Ukrainian law enforcement officers have launched an investigation under the article "ecocide." The Ukrainian Prosecutor General has stated that the investigation will prioritize the investigation of a war crime and ecocide. The Kakhovka HPP is completely destroyed and cannot be restored.
Russian soldiers in a state of intoxication blocked all possible ways out of the flooded Kozachi Laheri village in Kherson Oblast and prohibited evacuation after the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant was blown up. In addition, occupiers in the town of Hola Prystan are forcing the owners of two-storey houses out of their homes and settling in them themselves. The destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant caused an ecological catastrophe, with water from the reservoir flooding towns and villages and at least 150 tonnes of machine oil spilling into the Dnipro River. Ukrainian prosecutors are investigating the crimes of ecocide and violation of the customs of war in Kherson Oblast.