As Russian troops shell them from across the river, city workers dressed in body armour struggle to clear the mess left behind in Kherson by flooding caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.
Volunteers haul a woman on a stretcher after evacuating her from a flooded neighborhood on the left bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson, Ukraine on June 9, 2023.
The first few hours of the disaster — triggered by the destruction of the Soviet-era Kakhovka dam on June 6 — remain etched in Mysiyan's mind. Mysiyan, 56, told CBC News she grabbed her tools and went down to the riverbank to begin measuring. At that point, there was already water in the nearby square."We did not know what the level would be. We were running from point to point," she told CBC News Thursday through a translator. At one point, she said, she had to "take up" the hem of her dress as she pushed through the floodwaters.
Over the next several days, Mysiyan charted the flood and kept authorities informed as water rushed up the shell-cratered streets. She often did so in the face of artillery fire from the opposite side of the river, where Russian forces have been dug in since last fall after being driven out of the portion of the city on the left bank of the Dnipro.
As they push the sludge downhill, the workers advance toward the Russian-occupied territory on the other side of the river.
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