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(EFE) Volodimir Zelensky.

“The evacuation continues. Under fire! The Russian artillery continues to fire, no matter what. Savages,” said Zelensky, who once again described the destruction of the hydroelectric power station on the Dnieper River as a Russian “terrorist act”. which has caused severe flooding.

Russia, whose territory under its control was most affected by the floods, responded before the International Court of Justice in The Hague by accusing Kiev of blowing up the dam with “artillery attacks”.

Meanwhile, the war continues its course. Moscow claimed for the second time this week that it had repelled two enemy offensives on various sectors of the front.

Without warning, Zelenski personified himself this Thursday in the southern region of Jerson to coordinate rescue and emergency operations following the flooding of an area of ​​600 square kilometres, the urban area of ​​capitals like Santiago de Chile or Tehran.

“Our task is to save lives and help as many people as possible. It is important to calculate the damage and allocate funds to compensate the neighbors affected by the disaster”

“Our task is to save lives and help as many people as possible. It is important to calculate the damage and allocate funds to compensate the residents affected by the disaster,” he stressed.

Zelenski admitted that the situation in the occupied part of Jerson is “absolutely catastrophic” and accused Moscow of abandoning people to their fate without water, food and medical care on the rooftops of flooded localities.

“And this is another deliberate crime of Russia: after the terrorist state has caused the disaster, it also maximizes the damage,” he denounced.

The neighboring region of Mikoláyiv was also affected, where Zelensky then went, denouncing the flooding of the main pumping station of the Inhulets river canal and 3,000 hectares of forests.

While the Russian authorities estimated the death toll in the floods at five, the Ukrainians reported three more deaths in the occupied part, figures that will probably increase in the coming days, since the number of missing is unknown.

To this we must add the two people killed during the Ukrainian attacks on an evacuation point in the occupied town of Hola Pristan, according to the Russian interim governor of Kherson, Vladimir Saldo.

To this we must add the two people killed during the Ukrainian attacks against an evacuation point in the occupied town of Hola Pristan

As for the evacuees, Moscow and kyiv reported 6,700 rescued, although water levels have already started to drop in some places.

Zelenski, who received signs of solidarity from the UN, NATO and the European Union, criticized the International Committee of the Red Cross for not participating quickly in rescue operations.

As both sides lick their wounds, US media, citing sources close to Zelensky, are talking about the start of the long-awaited Ukrainian counter-offensive.

According to the sources, these operations take place in the southeast of the country with the participation of special assault units equipped with Western weapons.

The main objective would be to reach the administrative border of the annexed Crimean peninsula, but first it will be necessary to liberate the cities of Melitopol and Energodar, which gives access to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, under Russian control for more than a year.

The Ukrainian Army only publicly acknowledged having managed to advance more than a kilometer in the Bakhmut area, a stronghold controlled by Russian troops.

“This is the beginning of the counteroffensive, which will undoubtedly continue,” Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, told Telegram.

For his part, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported today that the Ukrainian Army tried in vain to break the Russian defensive lines in four sectors of the front in Zaporizhia with a motorized brigade of 1,500 people and 150 armored vehicles.

“This is the beginning of the counteroffensive, which will undoubtedly continue,” Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, commented on Telegram.

According to British Intelligence, in most sectors of the front the Ukrainian Army has the initiative, to which must be added the failure of the Chechen assault units to take the city of Márinka, on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk.

Also contributing to this is the fact that the water released by the dam flooded Russian defensive positions on the left bank of the Dnieper, forcing their soldiers to retreat up to 15 kilometers, according to Kiev.

In turn, according to the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), fortifications and minefields installed by the Russians to prevent the Ukrainian counterattack were also razed.

According to the Ukrainian General Staff, two divisions of the Russian Army in the New Kakhovka area also suffered heavy casualties and lost weapons, vehicles and ammunition depots due to the overflow.

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