KYIV, June 6 — Ukraine’s prosecutor general today said 17,000 people were being evacuated from flooded areas after the partial destruction of the Kakhovka dam.
“Over 40,000 people are in danger of being flooded. Ukrainian authorities are evacuating over 17,000 people,” Andriy Kostin, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, said on social media, adding that 25,000 more people should be evacuated on the Russian-occupied side of the Dnipro River. — AFP
