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The Khortytsia National Reserve also suffered due to the occupiers’ blowing up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. Experts have recorded the water bodies shallowing. In addition, the reserve administration notes that the water level drop in the Dnipro River has revealed the remains of wooden bridges dating back to 1944, which had been underwater for almost 70 years. Read more here.

Journalists can also learn more from local scientists about the consequences of the Kakhovka HPP explosion for the Kamianska Sich National Park in the Kherson region.

For reference: The Khortytsia National Reserve includes the island of Khortytsia (the largest Dnipro island), the adjacent(Baida, Try Stohy, Dubovyi, Rozstebyn islands, and Serednia, Blizniuky rocks), and the Vyrva tract on the right bank of the Dnipro, as well as the Kamianska Sich historical monument of national importance in Kherson region.

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• Zaporizhzhia

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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• food
• russian crimes
• Kherson
• Zaporizhzhia

Teachers in Zaporizhia hold sports and entertainment activities for refugee children every week. Entertainment activities and performances are held in a theater. Parents and children who moved away from the occupied territories of Zaporizhia and Kherson regions come here every Sunday.

Due to the lack of high-quality equipment and the fact that the premises are unsuitable for sports games, creative teachers invent games for children with objects made of available materials: paper, balloons, etc.

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• Zaporizhzhia