Hundreds of houses flooded in Kramatorsk due to destroyed gateway, water rising

A sluice gate on a pond in the city of Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast has been partially destroyed, which resulted in an uncontrolled release of water. Nearly 260 private houses on 30 streets were flooded.

Source: Pavlo Kyrylenko,Head of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration, on Facebook

Details: According to Kyrylenko, an emergency occurred in a village in the Kramatorsk territorial hromada [an administrative unit designating a town, village or several villages and their adjacent territories – ed.].

The water level is still rising.

Rescue workers from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine are working on site, same as the members of profile departments of the Donetsk Oblast State Military Administration and the Kramatorsk City Military Administration.

Quote: "We are putting up a concrete barrier and cleaning up the riverbed in order to minimise the consequences of the overflow, relocating the people from the damaged houses to temporary housing."

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