After the attack on the Nova Kakhovka dam, people downstream survey the damage
n what should have been a Kherson street corner, Larysa Musian, a hydrologist, sits and watches the flood waters rising. The Dnipro River used to be 300-400 metres away, but after the dam at Nova Kakhovka was breached at 2.50am on Tuesday, it has burst into the city, flooding the first two or three blocks of the lowest lying quarter.
For now, the river waters continue to rise visibly, in line it seems with Musian’s calculations, lapping farther up the dry streets, the latest avoidable tragedy to hit a city already blighted heavily by the 15-month war. On the street corner, the scene unfolding around Musian has a surreal quality. Some residents simply stand and stare. Others say they are confident the waters will recede, although the destruction of the dam is absolute. Children run through the water and play in the summer heat. Meanwhile those driving rescue vans complain that most residents, many of whom are elderly, do not want to leave.
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