#oleshky

[thegirlwhohid]

People in Oleshky are begging for saving, but russians don't allow them to leave and don't make any evacuation.

This video was filmed by the UAF drone, but Ukrainians can't reach the occupied territory and help this family.

I can't even start to imagine the horror they feel right now...

[tomorrowusa]

Additional evidence that Russian occupiers in Ukraine are among the stupidest people on the planet.

The flooding caused by Russians blowing up the dam at Nova Kakhovka has done far more damage on the side of the river held by the invaders than on the side liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In addition to creating an environmental disaster, Russia has been shelling Kherson during attempts to evacuate flooded parts of the city.

Ukraine war: Kyiv accuses Russia of shelling Kherson evacuations

On their side of the river, Russian occupiers behaved in a typically incompetent way. From an AP story via the Charlotte Observer.

In the Moscow-controlled city of Oleshky, Lera told The Associated Press that the first floor of her home is flooded, confining her and her family to the second floor. “Everything around us is floating, people are standing on rooftops and asking for help, but no one is evacuating them,” said the 19-year-old, who declined to give her last name out of fear of reprisals. Most Russian troops fled from Oleshky shortly after the dam incident, Lera said, although a military checkpoint remains, and boats with people trying to leave have come under fire from soldiers. Her claim could not be independently verified.

Russian relief on their side of the river was so inadequate that UKRAINE risked its own drones to deliver water bottles to people in Russian-occupied Oleshky who were stranded on upper floors. Russian troops were probably too busy looting while running away from the flood waters.

This disaster as well as numerous war crimes would not have happened if Russia did not invade Ukraine in the first place in contravention of international law. That's the bottom line about this war.

Someone in the Kremlin needs to grow some яйца and remove Putin from power.

[k-s-morgan]

are you okay??

Hi! Despite the attacks, I'm fine, but I'm gutted and devastated over Russia exploding the dam. It flooded so many territories, so many animals are dead and dying, so many people can't get out. Many are on the roofs of their houses, helpless, with the water rising slowly, and Ukraine can't help because parts of these territories are occupied by Russia while Russia doesn't try to save them. I know from people there that Russians forbid anyone to go in or out, even those people who have boats and who are trying to escape. It's a terrible, hopeless situation, and the world seems indifferent since no one bothers to interfere and at least let us save those people. I saw our soldiers crying in despair because there is nothing they can do.

Kittens rescue video.

[suratan-zir]

The Russians not only don't try to save people suffering from flooding, but also do everything possible to kill as many Ukrainian civilians as possible, both in the occupied territories and those under Ukraine's control.

Today, they shelled the flooded areas of Kherson, precisely while the rescuers were evacuating people. There are victims among both emergency workers and local residents.

The city of Oleshki, which is under Russian occupation, suffers the most. Despite the fact that it is completely flooded, the Russian occupiers not only do not evacuate the residents, but also block the possibility of getting out of the city or delivering humanitarian aid to the city. At the moment, the number of drowned people there is unknown, but even the occupation administration of the city admits that there are casualties, saying: "There are already victims - drowning people, they started surfacing en masse"

A few days before blowing up the dam, the Russians took away all watercraft from the residents of Oleshki.

Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers, who tried to contact the Russian soldiers in Oleshki on their own and agree on the evacuation of the population, are reporting that the Russians claim that the order not to let people out of the city came from the top of the Russian command.

[folklorespring]

House-museum of Polina Rayko in Oleshky, Ukraine. She started painting her house at the age of 69 after deaths of her daughter and husband, and son's imprisonment. Polina Rayko died in 2004. Her home was a national cultural monument of Ukraine and a tourist attraction. House was destroyed in June 2023 by flooding following the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam by russians.

[dontforgetukraine]

"My grandfather had sheep, oxen, and a cow. People in masks came, knocked down the wall, and took everything: furniture, clothes, oil, flour, cattle. When they wanted to take the cow, the grandmother refused, and they struck her. The grandfather grabbed a pitchfork and did not allow them to take it. But he was threatened that they would take it anyway. The cow lived with us in the house. One day, while we were sleeping, I heard a cow being taken out so I called my father. When we went into the yard, we saw a butchered cow with hooves wrapped so that it wouldn't make noise while being taken out. My father gave the meat to hungry people. In 1932, we planted a lot of potatoes, and they grew well. We put the harvested potatoes in a hole and covered them with a layer of straw. In the morning, we got up, but there was no straw or potatoes, and just the ones that were in the house remained. When the potatoes were boiled, our neighbour came and asked to give her potato shells for her children. My grandfather was a fisherman. He would catch fish and give it to people. Once, they wanted to take the fish from him, but the people stood up to protect him, saying the words: "Come to the boat, we will strangle you with our bare hands." I remember my mother and I going to visit my godmother. We arrived there, came into the house, and saw her sitting at the table, swollen and dead."

These memories from the National Book of Memory of the Kherson region belong to Mariia Pidvorok (née Kudas), born in 1921. She survived the Holodomor in the village of Kozachi Laheri of the Oleshky community. Today, the village located near the long-suffering Krynky is under occupation. It suffered significant destruction: a three-story school designed for a thousand students, a kindergarten, a dispensary, a pharmacy, a church, residential and social infrastructure were damaged. In June 2023, as a result of Russians undermining the Kakhovka HPP, Kozachi Laheri was partially flooded. "Another prosperous village in the Kherson region is disappearing. Before the war, it had a population of about 3,722 people. Today, it is a wasteland where the Russian military wanders and robs the property of local residents," states the Telegram channel "Ukrainian South".

Source: Holodomor Museum Photo: The first threshing with a grain of the state farm "Kahovka" of the Kherson district, 1930, TsDAEA

[merrymorningofmay]

bohdan logvynenko (ukrainian journalist and writer who's been running crowdfunding campaigns and organizing volunteer expeditions to kherson oblast to deliver aid/help refugees leave the affected region) interviewed several ukrainians who managed to leave the occupied towns Oleshky and Hola Prystan after the dam explosion and wrote a twitter thread summarizing their experiences (the full interview will be released later) (translation by me):

20-day lockdown, no one is allowed to leave or enter the towns. the volunteers who procured aid around the oblast have been trying to get into Oleshky and Hola Prystan to no avail.

checkpoints wherever there is dry land (10-20% of the town). the soldiers search and simply rob people, tearing their ukrainian documents apart, breaking into the houses that have not been robbed yet, telling the locals that they (the military) will be rescued, but "you're all gonna die here."

leaving the town is not allowed without a russian passport. most people don't have one.

people are trying to help one another, rescue the animals, stock up whatever food and medicine is left in the town. after the dam explosion, russian troops had been combing through Oleshky and seizing metal and plastic motor boats from people.

on the first day, many people were rescued in their underwear and had no clothes whatsoever.

the russians had been misinforming the locals, saying that the water would stop rising in a few hours and there was no need to evacuate; this resulted in many people drowning.

Hola Prystan was flooded on the second day (not the first one), when people were already sure that the water had stopped rising.

there have been instances of people being shot dead while trying to evacuate. russian troops patrol the town on boats, ignoring the people and animals who are drowning or sitting on the rooftops.

corpses of locals and russian soldiers, animal carcasses, bits of machinery are floating around the houses. the russians have set up ambushes, promising that a thousand more soldiers are about to arrive in the town to help with filtration

the russians did not inform the locals about the dam explosion in any way. the people got the news via ukrainian tv.

[kamogryadeshi]

More than 500 residents of the temporarily occupied Oleshky died due to Russians undermining the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Station, — Center of National Resistance

People died because the occupiers refused to evacuate those who did not have a Russian passport.

The occupiers simply left the local residents to die, despite all norms of International Humanitarian Law. This is another sign of genocide.

[whatsupwithspring]

Yesterday, the Russians blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. This caused a large-scale disaster on many levels, from the death of people and animals in flooded villages to ecocide for decades to come.

And what do I see? As some allow themselves to say that it may not be the russians because the "russian" side was flooded by more. So do you know what:

THERE IS NO RUSSIAN SIDE IN THE KHERSON REGION.

Both Dnipro coasts are Ukrainian. Civil Ukrainians live on both. Both have Ukrainian nature. Ukrainian grain grows on both. On both, _everything_ is Ukrainian. russians are the only occupiers there, and occupiers who dream of seeing us dead.

Right now they are sitting and watching people die in Oleshki, which will probably be completely flooded. Although no, they don't just sit and watch. RUSSIANS SHOOTING AT UKRAINIAN CIVILIANS WHO ARE TRYING TO EVACUATE. Ordinary Ukrainian people who are trying to escape from the flood that the russians arranged.

And at the same time, those "good" "anti-Putin" russians on all platforms are promoting the narrative that the hydroelectric power plant broke down on its own, and maybe the Ukrainians blew it up, but certainly not the russians. They try with all their effort to make us shut up, victim-blame Ukrainians who shout about tragedy and genocide, and simply draw attention to russians. Because for them it is never time to talk about victims. Because they also _love_ russia and _hate_ Ukraine and the fact that Ukrainians dare to continue fighting with the russian death machine.

Because every Russian is guilty.

Now also in the largest human-made disaster in recent decades.

Please donate to Ukrainian fonds who try to survive people and animals from the flood. And donete for Ukrainian army.

[mariacallous]

From the Mariupol Drama Theatre, where children sought shelter at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, to the frescoed home of artist Polina Rayko in Oleshky, and the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa—no part of Ukraine’s history is safe from Russia’s aggression. Whether by missile or occupation, Ukraine’s centuries-old culture and history, like its people, are being relentlessly destroyed.

Ukrainian preservationists are turning to cutting-edge tech to immortalize history in a race against destruction. Teams of historians, technologists, and activists have mobilized to digitally capture Ukraine’s most cherished monuments, churches, and historical landmarks before they’re reduced to rubble. Each scan, each 3D model, stands as an act of defiance against Russia’s genocidal war that aims to erase Ukraine and its identity.

We spoke to Kyiv’s Ivan Honchar Museum, the Spilnyi Spadok crowdfunding platform, and the Skeiron 3D scanning studio to understand how Ukraine’s heritage is being preserved amid Russia’s invasion.

[thegirlwhohid]

My heart bleeds. 

In occupied Oleshky, the water went away from the house-museum of Polina Raiko. Only 30-40% of her frescoes were preserved. The rest are gone. 

The unique art of the self-taught artist is lost and we have only photos now... how much will remain until the city is liberated and restorers can save the rest of the museum? 

Will there be anything left to save?

[have-you-been-here]

Oleshky sands, Kherson, Ukraine

[mirrorhunt]

A couple of weeks ago we were standing for humanitarian aid, and there were a lot of Ukrainians. And the old woman in front of us told us she was from Oleshky, Kherson oblast. She left after her town was occupied, made it through the longest and scariest journey of her life, and she was waiting to go back, wishing to see her home, to go back to her gardening and her pets.

Now the whole town of Oleshky is under water. Because of russians. I have no words. Only rage.

I want to burn russia alive.

[panimoonchild]

The Russians are bloody butchers - the world must see what monsters truly they're

Invaders shot unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war in Krynky, Kherson region.

On 7 April 2024, a video recording was published on a Telegram channel showing the Russian military shooting three captured Ukrainian servicemen. And that is not the first case.

The video shows a representative of the Russian Armed Forces firing several shots at the unarmed, motionless soldiers, presumably with an assault rifle.

The description under the video states that the incident took place near Krynky of the Oleshky community in the Kherson region.

"Once again, representatives of the aggressor country demonstrably ignore the provisions of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, which indicates support for such actions by the highest command of the Russian armed forces," the Prosecutor General's Office said.

[marina-greens-blog]

Water is coming. Oleshki, left bank of Kherson region 🤯😱😱🤬🤬🤬