Russians have still not retrieved bodies of those killed in explosion at Kakhovka plant

The bodies of deceased residents of Hola Prystan still lie beneath the houses that were destroyed when the Russians blew up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP). The Russians have still not retrieved them.

Source: Svitlana Linnyk, Head of Hola Prystan City Military Administration, in a comment to Pryazovia News, a Radio Liberty project

Quote: "They have not retrieved [the bodies – ed.], they have not dismantled the rubble, so those ruins remain, and the bodies of the dead are buried there. There are many, many people lying under the rubble of their own homes. Both urban and rural populations. There is a huge number of such houses and people who disappeared, and whose relatives are looking for them."

Details: According to official data and confirmed facts that are known to the Ukrainian authorities, 10 people died in Hola Prystan, but the actual death toll may be much higher, Linnyk says.

Quote: "There are a lot of people who will have to be reburied and exhumed by us, and a lot of people are looking for their relatives who died there."

Background:

• Russian troops blew up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant on the morning of 6 June.
• The dam and the turbine hall of the Kakhovka HPP were utterly destroyed. It was initially reported that the plant was beyond repair. However, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later said that Ukraine would repair the dam.
• The Russians’ blowing-up of the Kakhovka HPP caused flooding in a number of areas, human casualties and an environmental disaster. The Kakhovka reservoir shrank. Entire areas were left without drinking water.

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