General Staff: Russian Occupiers Taking Away Looted Property from Flooded Kherson Region

The enemy is taking away looted property from the areas of the Kherson region temporarily captured by the Russian occupation forces, which were flooded due to the explosion of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant dam.

This is stated in the 13 June morning report by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“In particular, empty trucks arrive at Hola Prystan under the guise of humanitarian aid, which Russian servicemen load with looted goods: household appliances, furniture, and other property,” the report reads.

At the same time, Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, said that the water level on the right bank of the Dnipro River had dropped by almost 30 cm over the past day, as of the morning of Tuesday, 13 June.

“The eighth day of resistance to the water element and liquidation of the consequences of Russian terror. The trend of water level decline is maintained. As of this morning, the average water level is 2.70 m, which is 27 cm less than last evening,” Prokudin noted.

According to operational data of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, 3,600 houses in 31 settlements remain flooded on the right bank of the Dnipro River.

Yesterday, the bodies of two drowned people were found in Kherson. In total, it is currently known that 10 people have been killed due to the rising water level. Another 20 people have been injured; 40 are considered missing.

The situation remains critical in the territory occupied by the Russians on the left bank of the Kherson region. Seventeen settlements have been flooded there; 133 people have been saved.

Bohdan Marusyak