War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Kherson Oblast

Houses are seen underwater in the flooded village near Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, June 10, 2023. The destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine is swiftly evolving into long-term environmental catastrophe. It affects drinking water, food supplies and ecosystems reaching into the Black Sea.

Houses are seen underwater in the flooded town of Oleshky, Ukraine, Saturday, June 10, 2023. Extensive flooding from the catastrophic destruction of the Kakhovka Dam on June 6 devastated towns along the lower Dnieper River in the embattled Kherson region. Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of causing the breach.

Volunteers haul a woman on a stretcher as she been evacuated from a flooded neighborhood of the left bank Dnipro river, in Kherson, Ukraine, Friday, June 9, 2023. In Ukraine, the governor of the Kherson region, Oleksandr Prokudin, said Friday that water levels had decreased by about 20 centimeters (8 inches) overnight on the western bank of the Dnieper, which was inundated starting Tuesday after the breach of the Nova Kakhovka dam upstream.

Flooded residential buildings are seen on Thursday, June 8, in Kherson, Ukraine.

A flooded neighborhood is seen in Kherson, Ukraine, on Wednesday, June 7, after the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam.

Ukrainian servicemen help residents to get down from the roof into rescue boats during an evacuation in a flooded neighborhood near Oleshky, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. In the early days of flooding, Ukrainian rescue workers, braving the drones and dangers of Russian snipers, were able to cross the river to evacuate civilians in the flood-affected areas of the Russian-occupied eastern bank.

An aerial view of flooding in Kherson after the Nova Kakhovka dam breach on June 7.

Floodwaters reach the center of Nova Kakhovka, June 6, 2023. The Russian-installed mayor of the town said that the water had risen by 10 meters and will increase further.

Local resident Tetiana holds her pets, Tsatsa and Chunya, as she stands inside her house that was flooded after the Kakhovka dam blew up overnight, in Kherson, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam and hydroelectric power station in a part of southern Ukraine that Russia controls, risking environmental disaster.

People at a gas station damaged by a Russian military strike in Kherson, Ukraine, May 3, 2023.