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June 13 (Reuters) - The death toll from flooding in two Russian-controlled towns in southern Ukraine has risen to 17 one week after a massive dam holding back a reservoir was breached, a Russian-installed official said on Tuesday. Andrei Alekseyenko, chairman of the Russian-installed administration in the Kherson region, said 12 people were confirmed dead in Hola Prystan and five in Oleshky, two small towns downstream from the breached Kakhovka dam. Reuters could not independently verify the figures. Hundreds of people were Russia controls the south bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson region, while Ukraine holds Kherson city on the opposite bank, as well as Mykolaiv region further north. Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Monday that 10 people had been killed in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions and that 42 were missing. Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of destroying the dam, which is located in Russian-controlled territory. The Russian-installed government will begin paying compensation to flood victims on Tuesday of up to 10,000 roubles (£120), Alekseyenko said, adding that more than 500 applications have been received. A villager in Hola Prystan told A local resident looks at his flooded building after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the flooded village of Afanasiivka in Kherson region, Ukraine June 12, 2023. REUTERS/Oleksandr Klymenko More than 7,100 people have been evacuated from areas under Russian control, inclu...

Soldiers walk along the bed of the Dnipro River in Novovorontsovka in rescue and relief efforts for victims of the Kakhovka dam destruction. Photograph: Ed Ram/The Guardian Soldiers walk along the bed of the Dnipro River in Novovorontsovka in rescue and relief efforts for victims of the Kakhovka dam destruction. Photograph: Ed Ram/The Guardian Ukrainian forces have moved along both sides of the river, southwards from the town of Velyka Novosilka, declaring the liberation of a string of villages: Blahodatne on the east bank; and Neskuchne, Makarivka and Storozheve on the west side. On Monday night, Ukraine’s deputy defence minister, Hanna Maliar, said three other settlements further west along the frontline – Novodarivka, Levadne in eastern Zaporizhzhia, and Lobkove in western Zaporizhzhia – had also been taken by Ukrainian forces. 01:08 Ukraine claims to have recaptured Donetsk village of Storozheve in counteroffensive – video The armed forces have published pictures of their units holding up flags in what were claimed to be the recaptured villages. The claims could not be independently verified, but Russian military bloggers confirmed the Ukrainian advance and reported heavy fighting overnight and on Monday morning for the next village along, Urozhaine, on the east bank of the river, straddling the road south-east towards Mariupol. Valeriy Shershen, a Ukrainian military spokesperson for that sector of the front, told the Ukrainska Pravda news agency that a dam upstream al...

Soldiers walk along the bed of the Dnipro River in Novovorontsovka in rescue and relief efforts for victims of the Kakhovka dam destruction. Photograph: Ed Ram/The Guardian Soldiers walk along the bed of the Dnipro River in Novovorontsovka in rescue and relief efforts for victims of the Kakhovka dam destruction. Photograph: Ed Ram/The Guardian Ukrainian forces have moved along both sides of the river, southwards from the town of Velyka Novosilka, declaring the liberation of a string of villages: Blahodatne on the east bank; and Neskuchne, Makarivka and Storozheve on the west side. On Monday night, Ukraine’s deputy defence minister, Hanna Maliar, said three other settlements further west along the frontline – Novodarivka, Levadne in eastern Zaporizhzhia, and Lobkove in western Zaporizhzhia – had also been taken by Ukrainian forces. 01:08 Ukraine claims to have recaptured Donetsk village of Storozheve in counteroffensive – video The armed forces have published pictures of their units holding up flags in what were claimed to be the recaptured villages. The claims could not be independently verified, but Russian military bloggers confirmed the Ukrainian advance and reported heavy fighting overnight and on Monday morning for the next village along, Urozhaine, on the east bank of the river, straddling the road south-east towards Mariupol. Valeriy Shershen, a Ukrainian military spokesperson for that sector of the front, told the Ukrainska Pravda news agency that a dam upstream al...

June 13 (Reuters) - The death toll from flooding in two Russian-controlled towns in southern Ukraine has risen to 17 one week after a massive dam holding back a reservoir was breached, a Russian-installed official said on Tuesday. Andrei Alekseyenko, chairman of the Russian-installed administration in the Kherson region, said 12 people were confirmed dead in Hola Prystan and five in Oleshky, two small towns downstream from the breached Kakhovka dam. Reuters could not independently verify the figures. Hundreds of people were Russia controls the south bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson region, while Ukraine holds Kherson city on the opposite bank, as well as Mykolaiv region further north. Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Monday that 10 people had been killed in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions and that 42 were missing. Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of destroying the dam, which is located in Russian-controlled territory. The Russian-installed government will begin paying compensation to flood victims on Tuesday of up to 10,000 roubles (£120), Alekseyenko said, adding that more than 500 applications have been received. A villager in Hola Prystan told A local resident looks at his flooded building after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the flooded village of Afanasiivka in Kherson region, Ukraine June 12, 2023. REUTERS/Oleksandr Klymenko More than 7,100 people have been evacuated from areas under Russian control, inclu...

Soldiers walk along the bed of the Dnipro River in Novovorontsovka in rescue and relief efforts for victims of the Kakhovka dam destruction. Photograph: Ed Ram/The Guardian Soldiers walk along the bed of the Dnipro River in Novovorontsovka in rescue and relief efforts for victims of the Kakhovka dam destruction. Photograph: Ed Ram/The Guardian Ukrainian forces have moved along both sides of the river, southwards from the town of Velyka Novosilka, declaring the liberation of a string of villages: Blahodatne on the east bank; and Neskuchne, Makarivka and Storozheve on the west side. On Monday night, Ukraine’s deputy defence minister, Hanna Maliar, said three other settlements further west along the frontline – Novodarivka, Levadne in eastern Zaporizhzhia, and Lobkove in western Zaporizhzhia – had also been taken by Ukrainian forces. 01:08 Ukraine claims to have recaptured Donetsk village of Storozheve in counteroffensive – video The armed forces have published pictures of their units holding up flags in what were claimed to be the recaptured villages. The claims could not be independently verified, but Russian military bloggers confirmed the Ukrainian advance and reported heavy fighting overnight and on Monday morning for the next village along, Urozhaine, on the east bank of the river, straddling the road south-east towards Mariupol. Valeriy Shershen, a Ukrainian military spokesperson for that sector of the front, told the Ukrainska Pravda news agency that a dam upstream al...

June 13 (Reuters) - The death toll from flooding in two Russian-controlled towns in southern Ukraine has risen to 17 one week after a massive dam holding back a reservoir was breached, a Russian-installed official said on Tuesday. Andrei Alekseyenko, chairman of the Russian-installed administration in the Kherson region, said 12 people were confirmed dead in Hola Prystan and five in Oleshky, two small towns downstream from the breached Kakhovka dam. Reuters could not independently verify the figures. Hundreds of people were Russia controls the south bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson region, while Ukraine holds Kherson city on the opposite bank, as well as Mykolaiv region further north. Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Monday that 10 people had been killed in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions and that 42 were missing. Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of destroying the dam, which is located in Russian-controlled territory. The Russian-installed government will begin paying compensation to flood victims on Tuesday of up to 10,000 roubles (£120), Alekseyenko said, adding that more than 500 applications have been received. A villager in Hola Prystan told A local resident looks at his flooded building after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the flooded village of Afanasiivka in Kherson region, Ukraine June 12, 2023. REUTERS/Oleksandr Klymenko More than 7,100 people have been evacuated from areas under Russian control, inclu...

June 13 (Reuters) - The death toll from flooding in two Russian-controlled towns in southern Ukraine has risen to 17 one week after a massive dam holding back a reservoir was breached, a Russian-installed official said on Tuesday. Andrei Alekseyenko, chairman of the Russian-installed administration in the Kherson region, said 12 people were confirmed dead in Hola Prystan and five in Oleshky, two small towns downstream from the breached Kakhovka dam. Reuters could not independently verify the figures. Hundreds of people were Russia controls the south bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson region, while Ukraine holds Kherson city on the opposite bank, as well as Mykolaiv region further north. Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Monday that 10 people had been killed in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions and that 42 were missing. Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of destroying the dam, which is located in Russian-controlled territory. The Russian-installed government will begin paying compensation to flood victims on Tuesday of up to 10,000 roubles (£120), Alekseyenko said, adding that more than 500 applications have been received. A villager in Hola Prystan told A local resident looks at his flooded building after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the flooded village of Afanasiivka in Kherson region, Ukraine June 12, 2023. REUTERS/Oleksandr Klymenko More than 7,100 people have been evacuated from areas under Russian control, inclu...

Soldiers walk along the bed of the Dnipro River in Novovorontsovka in rescue and relief efforts for victims of the Kakhovka dam destruction. Photograph: Ed Ram/The Guardian Soldiers walk along the bed of the Dnipro River in Novovorontsovka in rescue and relief efforts for victims of the Kakhovka dam destruction. Photograph: Ed Ram/The Guardian Ukrainian forces have moved along both sides of the river, southwards from the town of Velyka Novosilka, declaring the liberation of a string of villages: Blahodatne on the east bank; and Neskuchne, Makarivka and Storozheve on the west side. On Monday night, Ukraine’s deputy defence minister, Hanna Maliar, said three other settlements further west along the frontline – Novodarivka, Levadne in eastern Zaporizhzhia, and Lobkove in western Zaporizhzhia – had also been taken by Ukrainian forces. 01:08 Ukraine claims to have recaptured Donetsk village of Storozheve in counteroffensive – video The armed forces have published pictures of their units holding up flags in what were claimed to be the recaptured villages. The claims could not be independently verified, but Russian military bloggers confirmed the Ukrainian advance and reported heavy fighting overnight and on Monday morning for the next village along, Urozhaine, on the east bank of the river, straddling the road south-east towards Mariupol. Valeriy Shershen, a Ukrainian military spokesperson for that sector of the front, told the Ukrainska Pravda news agency that a dam upstream al...