Horror in the midst of chaos. A ball of motor boats that are evacuating residents from the flooded streets of Kherson after the demolition of the Kakhovka dam on Tuesday, a hundred kilometers upstream, was brutally interrupted by gunfire, sowing panic among the victims. LCI Special Correspondents on the spot even narrowly avoided a projectile that fell less than a hundred meters away, impressive land and boat footage can be found in the report at the beginning of the article.
The projectile, fortunately, ended its course in the water, but caught the victims by surprise as they tried at all costs to escape from the rising waters of the Dnieper, which sometimes reached the roofs of houses. On land, the second explosion sounded a few meters from the evacuation point. “Down!”, orders the man. The villagers run for cover but remain calm. Then eyes turn to the sky, where a new danger looms: a threatening drone, a Russian device, according to the Ukrainian military, which has seized the city from Moscow in recent months.
“They want to kill as many of us as possible”
The detachment in charge of the evacuation moves away from the place, firing at it without interruption. “It’s fast, it’s very close”, describes one of their members. In the square, the inhabitants break into the first building from which they can take cover, but remain on the alert. “I feel very bad, I’m worried. I’m afraid it’s not good”, lets go of the woman, who is leaning against the wall and looking exhausted. You can read horror on their faces, but also uncertainty and fear of new attacks.
A few minutes later, Grad rockets were fired at the building, captured from the outside, a few streets away, by one of the LCI journalists, along with the evacuation team, who then ran for cover. “Hush, it’s starting again!”booming voice inside the building. Sitting in line in the hallway, on the ground, victims wait, hung on every noise, their eyes glued to the many on the phone screen. “They want to kill as many of us as possible”says the old woman.
- VIDEO – Ukraine: “I’m not ready for this”: evacuation under Russian fire after the flood
The lull after the 40-minute attack finally allows the residents to leave the area without wasting a single minute. In this scene filmed by the LCI, nine people were injured in the bombings. This is not the first time Ukrainians have accused the Russian army of carrying out strikes on Kherson in the midst of an evacuation operation. In total, one person died in the city center and its environs in the last 24 hours, 18 were injured, including emergency workers.
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