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There are still thousands of people to evacuate in the face of rising waters on Tuesday, June 6. On the spot, in the city of Kherson, we find the special envoy Stéphanie Pérez.
The evacuation of residents in the face of rising waters is made particularly difficult in the midst of the fighting. “Behind me, the Dnieper River keeps rising through the streets of Kherson from minute to minute”reports the special envoy Stéphanie Pérez, in duplex from Kherson (Ukraine), Tuesday, June 6. “In some streets, it descends at a rate that is quite impressive under the appalled gaze of the population, very angry at the explosion of this dam”she continues.
The tension is palpable
The Russian enemy is singled out as responsible for the disaster. The Dnieper River separates the two camps, Ukrainian and Russian. “Evacuations are made extremely difficult because the shelling continues. (…) We witnessed a shooting between each camp which makes the tension even more palpable in this city which already originally was practically deserted of all its inhabitants. concludes the journalist.