SIMFEROPOL, June 10 Vaccinations against infectious diseases began to be given to people in the previously flooded territories of the Kherson region, Acting Governor Vladimir Saldo said on the air of the TV channel » Russia 24″.
The water level began to subside in the flooded after the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station Aleshki and Gola Pristan in the Kherson region, Saldo reported earlier. In Aleshki, the level dropped by two meters in a day (from the mark of five meters to three meters), in Naked Pristan by one meter (from the mark of five meters to four meters), he said.
«Disinfection is carried out by both the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the military. The military provide full assistance, without them (participation — ed.) it would be longer. The work is huge and the most dangerous thing is that there are reserves downstream the Dnieper — there are a huge number of animals and birds , birds eat dead fish and can carry infections … Now we need vaccinations against hepatitis and other possible infectious diseases that may appear. Vaccinations have also begun,» Saldo said.
The created operational headquarters organizes work on cleaning and disinfection of areas affected by flooding, he said.
On the night of June 6, Ukrainian troops launched a series of attacks on the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, as a result, the upper part of the station was destroyed, the reservoir dam itself was not damaged. There is an unregulated discharge of water. The head of the administration of the Novokakhovka urban district, Vladimir Leontiev, laid responsibility for the destruction of the hydroelectric power station on Kyiv. One of the goals of the Kyiv regime's bombing of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station is to deprive Crimea of water, said Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Russian President Vladimir Putin called the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station a barbaric action by the Kyiv regime and noted that this led to a large-scale environmental and humanitarian catastrophe. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the Kiev regime blew up the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, as it weakened its positions in the Kherson direction, transferring troops from there to the offensive area. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the attack.
The Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant is the sixth (lower and last) stage of the cascade of the Dnieper hydroelectric power plants, located five kilometers from the city of Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region, which became part of Russia following a referendum on September 30, 2022.