๐ Three years ago, on June 6, 2023, russians blew up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant dam.
Floodwaters swept through towns and villages across the Kherson region, taking lives and destroying homes.
At least 33 people were killed. The true death toll in the occupied territories remains unknown.
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam caused one of the largest technological and environmental disasters in the history of independent Ukraine.
Eighty settlements were flooded, and more than 16,000 people lost their homes.
Among those who died in the flood were Tetiana Kramarenko, Viktor Kramarenko, Antonina Kholodniak, Kateryna Kruchyna, Serhii Borzov, Anatolii Kornieiev, Heorhii Sanin, Oleksii Klymenko, Valentyna Liashenko, Mariia Shcherbyna, Anatolii Tkachenko, Larysa Dreval, and Anatolii Huliaiev.
Pregnant Tetiana Hryshko was killed by russian shelling while trying to evacuate her relatives from Hola Prystan.
During evacuation efforts in Kherson, rescuer Kyrylo Sydorchuk and Territorial Defense fighter Volodymyr Kavulich were also killed by russian attacks.
russia committed an act of genocide against civilians.
Remember every story. Every life. Every loss.
Three years ago, on June 6, 2023, russians destroyed the Kakhovka Dam โ one of the worst ecological disasters of the century.
Hundreds of villages flooded, dozens of lives lost, ecosystems wiped out for generations.
Not an accident โ state terror.
We remember.