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[00:01:00] an hour ago we were already flooded,
[00:01:02] Afanasyevka became an island, so yes,
[00:01:06] tell Putin, thank you, and call him a Russian
[00:01:10] word, the one that they call him,
[00:01:13] how
[00:01:17] does flooded Afanasyevka live
[00:01:20] now, 3 years later,
[00:01:22] plastered, everything was
[00:01:26] there, all of this was flooded, it was somewhere...
[00:02:10] 3 years ago, many people in Ukraine and beyond learned about the village of Afanasyevka
[00:02:13] in Mykolaiv Oblast as a result of the blowing up of the Kakhovka HPP dam on June
[00:02:17] 6, 2023. Water surrounded the village from all
[00:02:20] sides. The populated area was surrounded on all sides by the Inhulets
[00:02:23] River. During the rise in water level, it turned into an
[00:02:27] island from which the locals had to. Afanasyevka
[00:02:32] is the only village that currently has no land connection
[00:02:35] with the region. This village simply
[00:02:39] turned into an island. The water flooded the fields and homesteads,
[00:02:42] people lost
[00:02:43] their homes.
[00:02:51] Vasyl Khomko is a native of Afanasyevka. He has lived here all his life.
[00:02:54] Previously, he worked as a hydraulic engineer at a state farm. Later, he became
[00:02:57] the village head. He talks about the explosion. year
[00:03:15] and
[00:03:25] it flooded well, but people's houses were
[00:03:29] not flooded. The gardens were flooded, there were dams for
[00:03:32] flooding, yes, people
[00:03:35] walked along these markers along the dam,
[00:03:39] so that it was visible where one could drive, there was not much water, well, there was
[00:03:42] enough water to drive along the dam, that was the maximum that
[00:03:46] was. In a straight line from Afanasyevka to Kakhovka HPP, almost
[00:03:50] 50 km. Many, according to the head, simply did not believe
[00:03:54] that the water would reach them, because the most terrible thing for a long time in
[00:03:57] people's memory remained the March flood. Eighty-fifth,
[00:04:01] then a lot of snow fell during the winter, in spring the rivers overflowing their
[00:04:04] banks flooded many cities in the south, especially the east
[00:04:08] of Ukraine,
[00:04:11] naturally, from this, there was a lot of snow,
[00:04:14] the ice melted somehow instantly, and there was a lot of
[00:04:18] water, and it was backed up in the Dnieper, and the water
[00:04:21] here began to overflow its banks, and that's
[00:04:24] how it - we had
[00:04:27] flooding.
[00:04:29] One of Vasyl Khamko's tasks was regular measurement of the water level
[00:04:33] in Afanasyevka. In the first days after the dam explosion, the head says,
[00:04:36] nothing portended
[00:04:38] trouble. We measured, everyone was
[00:04:42] calm. The water arrived in, well, the river
[00:04:45] was full, the river was full.
[00:04:49] Yes, it overflowed a little from its banks onto such, onto
[00:04:51] such clearings, and there it was even
[00:04:55] possible, as I say, to fish, it, the fish came out onto
[00:04:58] the shallows, uh-huh. This was looking for some
[00:05:01] place
[00:05:03] for itself, and people were also fishing
[00:05:06] there.
[00:05:08] Even later, after the arrival of the district leadership in the village, Vasyl explains,
[00:05:12] there was still no threat of flooding
[00:05:14] of housing.
[00:05:18] They looked, and before their eyes, so to speak, for
[00:05:22] the first time the water began
[00:05:25] to overflow the dam, well, that is, everything was still
[00:05:28] normal, the water through the dam began to fill these
[00:05:32] ponds, it seemed that the trouble of Afanasyevka had passed, but it turned
[00:05:35] out, explains the former hydrologist Vasyl Khomko, that the village
[00:05:39] was flooded when the water went in the opposite direction into... it
[00:05:51] went back along the Inhulets here to us, it
[00:05:55] filled up completely, right up to the dams, because these ponds that
[00:05:59] we have are protected by dams, they are protected
[00:06:02] by dams, and the water in
[00:06:05] the Inhulets in the river filled up so much that it went over the dam and began to fill
[00:06:09] these ponds, well, that is, the water seeks... a place
[00:06:12] for itself to pour over, and it started
[00:06:16] ponds, and ponds, they are located
[00:06:20] around the village, that Afanasyevka, well,
[00:06:23] around the village, that is, like this, and it
[00:06:27] first, the water filled all these ponds, and
[00:06:30] then it started to rise
[00:06:33] simultaneously.
[00:06:39] Well, they said, just like that.
[00:06:42] around, that it would pass through the channel and that's it, it wouldn't
[00:06:45] touch the village, and by evening they had already torn down this
[00:06:48] dam, that's what those who remained with
[00:06:52] cows, those people live behind the village right there behind the village at the
[00:06:55] brigade, and we just drove here, and in the morning
[00:06:58] it was all over.
[00:07:01] These are shots from three years ago, the water rushed in so fast that almost
[00:07:05] no one in Afanasyevka managed to move household appliances or furniture from their
[00:07:08] homes.
[00:07:13] And my refrigerators are floating there, and TVs, everything is floating, well,
[00:07:17] we can't go further, here you can still, I'll open it for you now, if
[00:07:21] it works,
[00:07:24] this is all
[00:07:25] a refrigerator,
[00:07:29] oh, here are new ones, the children just bought them, they haven't even paid off the loan yet,
[00:07:32] oh, here's their furniture floating up,
[00:07:36] in that room, my grandson lives, a school
[00:07:40] desk, everything, a plasma TV, everything is there, everything,
[00:07:43] so, if you show this on air, thank Putin,
[00:07:47] and call him a Russian word, the one they call him.
[00:08:09] the hero of many stories of that time.
[00:08:42] so it was under the roofs in our one street there,
[00:08:46] well, on Shevchenko Street, well, there were five houses
[00:08:49] that were completely flooded, and 75 in
[00:08:53] Afanasiyivka, well, of those, 11
[00:08:57] houses, it seems, in which people
[00:09:00] did not live,
[00:09:02] yes, that is, 60, one can say that 64 houses
[00:09:06] were those with people who were flooded,
[00:09:09] in total there were 105 houses, three of which were
[00:09:13] Yuriyivka village in our old district, two settlements, Yuriyivka and
[00:09:16] Afanasyevka.
[00:09:19] This is a famous shot from 2023
[00:09:22] from above.
[00:09:26] This is what Afanasyevka looked like during the maximum
[00:09:28] flooding.
[00:09:31] Afanasyevka became an island. Yes, that's right. And all
[00:09:34] these houses that are located, which you see in the coastal
[00:09:38] zone, they were all those that were all flooded all around.
[00:10:12] and she was evacuated to our
[00:10:15] Snieverivka hospital, there was such a reception point
[00:10:18] for these refugees who were fleeing the water, and she was there, well,
[00:10:22] she was there in the village. It is a village, not
[00:10:26] a city, we have many
[00:10:29] relatives here, well, it is a village, relatives, and they just moved in with
[00:10:33] their relatives, everyone had some relative who could
[00:10:37] take them in.
[00:10:40] And what also saved us, explains the head, is that in
[00:10:42] 2023 everyone came to help, volunteers,
[00:10:46] military administration, State Emergency Service, National Police, and
[00:10:49] military personnel worked well, who deployed pontoon crossings for the evacuation
[00:10:53] of people and animals from...
[00:11:25] what we need for cows, there is a milking machine, everything, because we have everything, our
[00:11:28] farm is equipped according to European
[00:11:30] standards.
[00:11:34] The Kredener farmer family took the authorities' warnings
[00:11:37] seriously, so they partially managed to save their farm
[00:11:40] and business. We went and looked at that side where
[00:11:44] the level was higher, ours was lower, the level started to rise,
[00:11:47] to rise, and then we saw that it would soon reach our pond,
[00:11:51] there was a drop of about 2.5 meters, and it happened instantly.
[00:12:25] and immediately volunteers were here, with water,
[00:12:29] with food, yes, with,
[00:12:32] essential products, all this was
[00:12:35] provided, and they didn't know about light, and flashlights, well, it's
[00:12:39] very, very much, you can't even list
[00:12:41] it all.
[00:12:45] During the flood, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, 75 people
[00:12:48] were evacuated from the flooded part of Afanasyevka, but
[00:12:51] there was no forced resettlement, emphasizes the village head.
[00:12:58] That is, if a person wanted to, then they could, in principle,
[00:13:02] turn to, there was a ferry crossing, as I told you, it was organized, whoever
[00:13:06] wanted, and it's not just a crossing, you could also transport
[00:13:09] vehicles, well, it was such a crossing, that is, you could drive
[00:13:12] your car, yes, you could drive in and
[00:13:16] cross.
[00:13:22] Elena's house is right by the water, her garden abuts the lake. In
[00:13:26] 2023, the woman's farm and residential buildings
[00:13:29] went underwater. Elena recalls how it all
[00:13:31] happened.
[00:13:35] Yes, here it was like this.
[00:13:39] There, a little more,
[00:13:42] yes, a meter seventy-five in the house, here I don't know, how it was there, maybe
[00:13:45] the same, and you had time to react to all this, well,
[00:13:48] that is, to somehow escape, it rose slowly,
[00:13:52] or not, it rose slowly, but no one...
[00:14:25] there's a dam, water came from there, water came
[00:14:28] from there, water came from there, the river is further
[00:14:32] away from us. Most of all, Elena regrets the old
[00:14:36] fruit trees that were simply washed away
[00:14:38] by the water.
[00:14:41] there were a lot of trees, they all died, those old ones
[00:14:44] died, because everything was flooded, the trees were not visible at all, aha,
[00:14:48] yes, and the water was rising, well, those trees were completely submerged
[00:14:52] in water, well, not these trees, those that were, they are no longer there.
[00:15:25] it floated in, whoever wanted to, floated in, well, it didn't float
[00:15:28] to us, yes, whatever wanted to floated, there
[00:15:32] is a river further on, then through the dam, you see, there is already a line, you can
[00:15:35] see it there, I see, I see.
[00:15:46] everything was floating, we saw it there and
[00:15:49] we were worried, because it was reported
[00:15:53] that an gas station was washed
[00:15:55] away on the way to us, these oil
[00:15:59] spots, all this was floating to people and
[00:16:02] houses.
[00:16:35] well, that didn't happen, because it was. This well was flooded,
[00:16:39] it was
[00:16:39] flooded.
[00:16:45] That's how it turned out, Elena explains, that after the flood, almost the only
[00:16:49] plus was that the garden didn't have to be fertilized
[00:16:51] additionally. For a couple of years, this grew
[00:16:55] here, we didn't feed it anything, yes, we
[00:16:58] didn't feed it anything, so, this year it's a little
[00:17:01] worse.
[00:17:04] Three years later, for many residents of Afanasyevka who suffered.
[00:18:08] I'll clarify for you, the water was here, where it peeled off,
[00:18:12] yes, here it was, right there
[00:18:16] it washed away with this plaster, everything
[00:18:19] was, all this was flooded, we couldn't
[00:18:23] go in here, and I sent you a video there, that
[00:18:27] on the ninth day, I stood like this and walked here
[00:18:30] in boots, this is on the ninth
[00:18:33] day, yes, the water still completely covered
[00:18:36] the garden. and near
[00:18:38] the house, Holy Mother of God,
[00:18:42] for 9 days the water stood here, it didn't
[00:18:45] recede.
[00:18:49] And then, on the ninth day, I went
[00:18:52] into the house.
[00:18:54] When the water receded, special commission of the starostynskyi district
[00:18:58] inspected such yards as Valentina's, explains Vasyl Khomko. The commission
[00:19:01] recorded the fact of flooding of the household, then the data
[00:19:05] was transferred to the district commission.
[00:19:09] Based on our acts, a commission from the
[00:19:12] district came out
[00:19:15] and recorded the damage,
[00:19:19] and calculated, well, using which
[00:19:22] the damage was calculated, they looked at the height
[00:19:26] of the flooding and there, based on this, they
[00:19:30] calculated the damage that was sustained and calculated for people
[00:19:34] according to this restoration program, such was the program.
[00:20:07] we had the floor collapsed, well, everything
[00:20:11] was removed here, everything was cleaned up from the
[00:20:13] walls, there was nothing, only
[00:20:17] stones were there, everything was collapsed, everything
[00:20:20] was lying here, there was a slab here, the stove, everything
[00:20:23] was covered, only bricks and stones were on the ground, everything was
[00:20:27] covered in soot.
[00:20:30] For all three years, Valentina has been living with her daughter. Her house in Afanasyevka, except for
[00:20:34] the basement, was not flooded, but she cannot live in her own home.
[00:20:50] Three years ago, Valentina had a summer kitchen and outbuildings
[00:20:53] left, and this is how the potatoes were
[00:20:56] collected here in the garden,
[00:20:58] potatoes.
[00:21:01] Here it is, well, this was our kitchen, a summer
[00:21:04] kitchen, it was a summer kitchen, yes, my parents were here, so it was a summer kitchen, my brother
[00:21:08] was disabled, so he lived here, this is a summer kitchen, the walls
[00:21:12] were like that, everything was beautiful, everything
[00:21:15] was plastered, everything was here and everything was white, everything
[00:21:18] was there. I took everything down, all this fell, all
[00:21:22] this was not peeled off, all this collapsed like
[00:21:25] this completely, now they have installed
[00:21:29] compensation for the restoration of such premises was not
[00:21:32] calculated by the commission, explains the head Vasyl Khomko. It was
[00:21:36] only for a person to restore their home, for
[00:21:39] a home, and for a cellar,
[00:21:42] a garage, some shed, funds were no longer
[00:21:45] allocated for this, only for
[00:21:47] repairs.
[00:22:20] Everything here collapsed
[00:22:22] completely. Valentina has no money to rebuild the farmyard
[00:22:26] and complete the repair of the living quarters. She worked in the village and kindergarten
[00:22:30] all her life, now she is retired.
[00:22:33] At Elena's neighbor, where we were
[00:22:38] earlier, the summer kitchen is also in a deplorable state, bare walls,
[00:22:42] the room is recognized as uninhabitable, so compensation is not
[00:22:45] due. everything here...
[00:22:49] Afanasyevka was under occupation for
[00:24:05] 7 months, and like many settlements of Snihurivka district, the local
[00:24:09] village suffered from shelling. Russian soldiers took away phones,
[00:24:12] checked documents, and searched for ATO veterans, but due to Afanasyevka's
[00:24:16] unique location in the lowlands, they did not stay long.
[00:24:50] I want to tell you one thing: it was
[00:24:54] such low-quality water, and after it
[00:24:57] the state of groundwater deteriorated, well,
[00:25:00] not the state, but the quality, well, the quality
[00:25:04] deteriorated very much, and it still checks
[00:25:08] us, in Afanasyevka we don't have
[00:25:11] a centralized system, there are public wells,
[00:25:13] and they are constantly monitored by
[00:25:17] our, It so happened
[00:25:26] that on the day of our visit to Afanasyevka, they came to install
[00:25:30] equipment for purifying drinking water. Water from the well will be
[00:25:33] additionally filtered and will become ideal for consumption.
[00:25:37] Under the terms of the volunteers who allocated money for the equipment, this
[00:25:40] water will be free for all residents
[00:25:43] of the village.
[00:25:45] Dmytro Yevchin, Mykyta Isayka, Borys Mazur, and Hryhoriy Pehnastyi, Crimea realities.
[00:26:40] According to SovEcon consulting company, Russian wheat exports in July-September
[00:26:44] of the current year 2026 will amount to
[00:26:48] 5.4 million tons. This is the minimum since the
[00:26:51] lean year of 2010. Then, I recall, due to
[00:26:55] drought in a number of regions, a third of the crops were lost,
[00:26:58] and the Russian government introduced an embargo on grain exports.
[00:27:02] The law. It all ended with the Arab Spring. Now, with the harvest,
[00:27:05] everything is relatively good. There is no talk of records, but already
[00:27:08] twice as much wheat has been harvested and threshed as in all of
[00:27:12] 2010. In total, according to the forecast of the Ministry of Agriculture,
[00:27:15] 88 million tons of wheat will be produced
[00:27:18] this year, 3 million less than in 2025,
[00:27:22] 5 million more than in 2024. So, the collapse
[00:27:25] of exports by more than two times compared to last year,
[00:27:28] almost 2.5 times compared to the average annual
[00:27:31] indicator over the last 5 years, is explained by the fact that as a result
[00:27:35] of the war in the Black and Azov Seas, the ports through which
[00:27:38] grain was exported are virtually paralyzed. I remind you that in
[00:27:42] early September, at a press conference in Bishkek, Vladimir Putin
[00:27:45] stated that in 40 days Ukrainian drones damaged more than
[00:27:49] 100 ships in the Black and Azov Sea areas,
[00:27:52] after which civilian shipping there virtually stopped. In
[00:27:56] Rostov Oblast, a state of emergency has been declared,
[00:27:59] internal grain prices there have fallen below
[00:28:03] cost price, which threatens the bankruptcy of agricultural enterprises. On
[00:28:07] average across Russia, according to Forbes, as of early September, wheat prices
[00:28:10] were a quarter lower than a year earlier. This is despite the fact that
[00:28:14] the cost price has increased, including due to costs associated with
[00:28:17] the fuel crisis. The government has created an operational
[00:28:21] headquarters that is trying to redirect export grain to
[00:28:24] other ports and stimulate transportation by rail to China and
[00:28:28] Kazakhstan. However, quotas for state subsidies for
[00:28:31] transportation by rail were already chosen in
[00:28:35] August. The main thing is that all bypass routes are not
[00:28:38] able to replace the export capacities of the Black Sea and
[00:28:42] Azov ports. Minister of Agriculture Oksana Lut back in
[00:28:45] late August announced the possibility of state interventions
[00:28:49] in the grain market. This refers to purchasing and storing grain at
[00:28:53] the expense of the budget, which should support prices and prevent
[00:28:56] agricultural producers from going bankrupt. However, according to the
[00:28:59] minister, the state is ready to buy from one to three.
[00:29:21] In the bottom line, we get another industry that found itself on the verge of collapse due to the war and requires urgent salvation, for which the government, due to the same war, has no money. For the war, however,
[00:29:25] there is. An industry that not only provides the country with export
[00:29:28] revenue, but also is responsible for...
[00:29:31] Compared to the world revolution, it is
[00:29:43] really a mere trifle, but farmers may think
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