KHERSON, Ukraine: As shelling from Russia’s war on Ukraine echoed overhead, dozens of evacuees on an island in the Dnipro River scurried onto the tops of military trucks or into rafts to flee rising floodwaters caused by the
Some found themselves floating under the rafters of their homes as the waters rose. Space was limited on the trucks, and an effort to tow two rafts behind one went awry when the ropes snapped. One man chucked his German shepherd from the roof of the stalled truck onto another. Some residents clung to each other to keep from falling into the rising tide.
The United Nations said at least 16,000 people have already lost their homes, and efforts were underway to provide water, money, and legal and emotional support to those affected. Evacuations on the Ukrainian-controlled side of the river were ferrying people to cities including Mykolaiv and Odesa to the west.
“The rules of international humanitarian law specifically protect dams, due to the dangers their destruction poses to civilians,” she said.
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