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Last weekend, four-and-a-half days after Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam burst, the longer-term scale of the flooding disaster was gradually becoming apparent. In the station at Mykolaiv, the first city inland, pensioner Olena Lysiuk said she had no choice but to quit her apartment in Kherson, even though it was too high up to be flooded.
“It’s not just that we don’t have any water, gas or electricity. We have also got used to not having those during the Russian occupation. But now the sewerage doesn’t work. That’s the new problem,” Lysiuk said. She planned to stay in Mykolaiv with relatives, with the state having given her about 10,000 hryvnia ($270) in support.
Vasyl Chornyi got off an evacuation carriage from Kherson while the train was joined to another. The Inhulets river flooded part of his village, Fedorivka, 30km north-east of Kherson, and while his house wasn’t directly affected, he too was leaving because “we fear a pandemic”.
“The cemetery is drowned, the sewers have
