Russia Strikes Evacuation Boat, Leaving Three Dead. Three people were killed after Russia attacked a boat carrying evacuees from a flooded area in Kherson, said the regional Governor.
Russian military attacked three small boats carrying elderly inhabitants to safety from submerged districts of southern Ukraine on Sunday, killing three and injuring ten, according to the regional governor.
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The area has been devastated by catastrophic flooding along the Dnipro River as a result of the demolition of the Nova Kakhovka dam, which Kyiv and Moscow have accused each other of intentionally blowing up.
Oleksander Prokudin, the Ukrainian-appointed governor of the Kherson region, stated that Russian forces were “deliberately attempting to disrupt rescue efforts.”
Today, terrorists opened fire on three boats that were being used to rescue 21 people from the flooded (eastern) bank, Prokudin told Ukrainian television.
Almost all of them were elderly or disabled people. Russian forces opened fire in the back.
He stated that three persons were murdered and ten were injured, including two law enforcement personnel, during the evacuation from Russian-controlled areas of the Kherson region to Ukrainian-controlled areas.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned the tragedy and accused Russia of being responsible for the dam failure that inundated communities. He claimed that Russian military were currently bombarding citizens attempting to flee waterlogged regions.
They have deliberately cast people into flooded towns and villages and then used shell boats to try to evacuate them, Zelenskiy stated in his nightly video address. Even animals have more morals than the Russian state.
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According to Prokudin, a 74-year-old man was hit after using his body to shield a woman from Russian fire and was hit in the back, and his injuries were too severe for physicians to rescue him.
Images uploaded on a Ukrainian armed forces Telegram account showed paramedics pulling evacuees from small boats and pushing them through knee-deep water to safety – some on stretchers, others in rescuers’ arms.
