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Kherson team of “Save Ukraine” Charitable Foundation is evacuating residents of the South, who found themselves in the flood zone after the russians had blown up the Kakhovka HPP dam.

They are also providing all necessary support for the victims.

For reference: “Save Ukraine” is a charitable foundation that coordinates dozens of organizations, volunteers, individuals and legal entities to help internally displaced persons. Among other things, the foundation’s volunteers organize rescue operations to return deported Ukrainian children.

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The organizations Helping to Leave and Vostok SOS help with the evacuation of residents of the areas affected by the blowing up of the Kakhovka HPP dam. They are ready to show their work and provide comments to journalists.

For reference: Helping to Leave is a 24-hour hotline to help Ukrainians affected by the russian military invasion and genocide. Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Helping to Leave operators have taken more than 53,000 people through the evacuation process.

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Vostok SOS organization, in turn, has already evacuated 46,000 Ukrainians since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

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In Kyiv region, volunteers of “Zoopatrol” NGO are planning a trip to Kherson region to help the evacuated people and their pets. (The date of the trip is yet to be determined). Currently, volunteers help by providing information and coordination, as well as raising funds for the victims.

In Lviv, a team of volunteers from “Home of Rescued Animals” charity foundation is also planning a humanitarian mission to Kherson.

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The team of the World Central Kitchen charity organization is feeding people who are forced to evacuate from flooded areas due to the explosion of the Kakhovka HPP dam. In particular, they work in Kherson region, Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhia.

For reference: WCK has been working in Ukraine since the first days of russia’s full-scale invasion. In general, this organization funds and provides products to create food kits in countries and regions experiencing humanitarian, climate or man-made crises.

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• Zaporizhzhia

Journalists can contact the Media Center Ukraine Producer Department to get contacts to official services (police, rescuers, etc.) in Kherson and the Oblast.

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• Kherson

The Dnipro city is preparing to welcome the victims of the occupiers’ explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant and to resettle them in shelters. Those affected will be provided with food and other necessities.

Journalists can look firsthand at the preparatory process to receive people underway. 

For reference: Charitable organization «Charitable Fund: Revival of Ukraine!» and the “Institute for the Promotion of Public Initiatives” Public organization are helping the victims.

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Bohdan Logvynenko is currently preparing to go to the Kherson region to help those affected by the flooding caused by the explosion of the Kakhovka HPP by Russian troops. He is also gathering volunteers for the humanitarian mission online.

For reference:  Bohdan Logvynenko is a journalist and, writer, founder of Ukraїner (a socio-cultural multimedia project of Ukrainian studies based on the results of his own expeditions).

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Oksana Pohomii, a volunteer and a Kherson City Council member, waited for the city to be liberated from the Russian invaders throughout the occupation. She also helped those who were going through hard times with her. She even managed to post videos from the occupied city.  Now Oksana Pohomii continues to stay in Kherson, ready to talk to the media about the mood of the city, people’s self-organization, readiness for evacuation, etc.

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Experts are calculating the ecosystem damage caused by Russia blowing up the Kakhovka dam. The Center for Environmental Initiatives Ecoaction (Ecodia) is ready to share contacts of English-speaking experts who can comment on these issues.

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• Kherson
• Kyiv

Kherson authorities plan to install 60 mobile shelters. As of now, about 30 of them have already been put up in the city. In general, the authorities also want to install 150 mobile shelters in the de-occupied parts of Kherson region. They plan to put them up, first of all, near schools that do not have bomb shelters. The region also continues to repair shelters that have been abandoned and out of use.

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