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[00:01:00] within one hour it was already flooded, Afanasievka
[00:01:03] became an island, yes,
[00:01:07] tell Putin thank you, and call him by the Russian word they
[00:01:11] call him by,
[00:01:17] how does flooded Afanasievka live now,
[00:01:20] 3 years later,
[00:01:22] it was washing away everything with that plaster, everything was, everything
[00:01:26] was, everything was flooded.
[00:02:08] 3 years ago, many in Ukraine and beyond learned about Afanasievka,
[00:02:12] Mykolaiv region, due to the dam breach of the Kakhovka HPP on June
[00:02:15] 6, 2023, water
[00:02:19] surrounded the village from all sides. The settlement
[00:02:22] was surrounded on all sides by the Inhulets River and during the rise
[00:02:25] in water level it turned into an island from which
[00:02:28] locals had to be evacuated by boats.
[00:02:32] Afanasievka 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 fields and farmsteads,
[00:02:43] people lost
[00:02:43] their homes.
[00:02:51] Vasily Khomko is a native of Afanasievka. He has lived here all his life.
[00:02:54] Earlier he worked as a hydraulic engineer in a state farm, later he became
[00:02:57] the village elder, he talks about the explosion, as...
[00:05:00] It was looking for a place
[00:05:04] for itself, and people were still catching
[00:05:06] there,
[00:05:09] even later after the district leadership came to the village, he explains.
[00:05:42] towards the destroyed dam, then the waters of the Dnieper filled
[00:05:45] the Inhulets, encircling the village,
[00:05:48] when the water from the Dnieper flowed back along
[00:05:52] the Inhulets here to us, it
[00:05:55] filled up completely all the way to the dams, because these ponds that
[00:05:59] we have, they are protected by dams, dams
[00:06:02] protect them, and the water in
[00:06:05] the Inhulets in the river filled up so much that it went over the dam and started
[00:06:09] filling these ponds, well, that is, the water is looking for a place
[00:06:13] for itself to flow over, and it started
[00:06:16] the ponds, and the ponds, they are located
[00:06:20] around the village, that Afanasievka, well,
[00:06:23] around the village, that is, that's how it
[00:06:27] happened, they first filled these ponds
[00:06:31] and then started to rise
[00:06:33] simultaneously,
[00:06:39] well, they said, as those who know are always around,
[00:06:43] that it will pass through the channel and that's it, it won't touch the village, and by
[00:06:47] evening this dam was already blown up, that
[00:06:50] who remained with cows, there were people living behind the village
[00:06:54] right there behind the village on the farm, and we drove them
[00:06:57] here in the morning,
[00:06:58] that's it.
[00:07:01] These are frames from three years ago, the water rushed so quickly that almost
[00:07:05] no one in Afanasievka had time to take out household appliances or furniture from their
[00:07:09] homes.
[00:07:13] and there my refrigerators are floating, and TVs, everything is floating,
[00:07:17] well, we won't go further, here you can still, I will open it for you now
[00:07:21] if
[00:07:25] it works,
[00:07:25] this is the refrigerator,
[00:07:29] here are new ones, the children just bought them, they haven't paid off the loan yet,
[00:07:33] oh, here their furniture floated up, there in that
[00:07:37] room my grandson lives, a school
[00:07:40] table, everything, a plasma TV, everything.
[00:07:42] That's it, so if you show this on air, tell
[00:07:46] Putin thank you, and call him by the Russian word they call him by.
[00:08:08] Yuriy Danylovych from Afanasievka, the hero of many stories of that time, readily
[00:08:12] told journalists about the flood, showed his damaged
[00:08:16] farm, his house and outbuildings in
[00:08:19] 2023 were almost completely
[00:08:21] flooded. so that's the help we got from
[00:08:25] our brotherly people, about 80 houses, maybe more,
[00:08:28] we still have roofs visible, but there further on people don't even have
[00:08:31] roofs. This prediction by Yuriy at a glance
[00:08:35] turned out to be correct, to be completely precise, the man was only wrong by
[00:08:39] five households.
[00:08:42] that's how it was on the roofs with us, one street there,
[00:08:46] well, on Shevchenko street, there were five
[00:08:49] houses that were definitely flooded, and
[00:08:53] 75 in Afanasievka, well, out of them there were
[00:08:57] some 11 houses, it seems, in
[00:09:00] which people did not live, that is,
[00:09:03] 60, one can say, 64 houses
[00:09:06] were those with people who were flooded,
[00:09:10] in total there were 105 houses. 30 of them are
[00:09:13] Yuriyivka village in our starostyn district, two settlements Yuriyivka and
[00:09:17] Afanasievka.
[00:09:20] This is a famous shot from 2023 from
[00:09:22] above.
[00:09:26] This is what Afanasievka looked like during the maximum
[00:09:29] flooding.
[00:09:31] Afanasievka became an island. Yes, yes. And all
[00:09:35] these houses that are located, which you see, in the coastal
[00:09:38] zone, they were all flooded.
[00:10:12] and she was evacuated to
[00:10:15] our Snihurivka hospital, there was such a reception point for
[00:10:18] these refugees from the water and she was there, well,
[00:10:22] she was there for the village. it's a village, it's not a
[00:10:26] city, we have many
[00:10:29] relatives here, well, it's 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 them, explains the village elder, is that in
[00:10:43] 2023 everyone came to help, volunteers,
[00:10:46] the military administration, the State Emergency Service, the National Police and
[00:10:50] the military worked well, who deployed pontoon crossings for the evacuation of
[00:10:53] people and animals from
[00:10:55] Afanasievka Island.
[00:10:59] We, as people, people will survive, but the cattle, they are tied up,
[00:11:02] they want to eat. In Afanasievka, farmers
[00:11:06] who kept a cowshed on the shore of the lake responded
[00:11:09] to the threat in time. Only it's still all flooded, you see,
[00:11:13] we have a farm there, and hay, and a house, everything, everything
[00:11:16] was flooded. Well, when the flood started, we already understood that
[00:11:20] it would be, it would be trouble. We quickly moved
[00:11:24] with a tractor, loaded everything we needed for the cows, there's a milking machine, everything, because
[00:11:27] we have everything, our farm is equipped according to
[00:11:30] European standards.
[00:11:34] The Kridener farmer family took the authorities' warnings
[00:11:37] seriously, so they partially managed to save their farm
[00:11:41] and business. We went and looked at the other side, where the level
[00:11:44] was higher, ours was lower, the higher level started to rise,
[00:11:48] to rise, and then we saw that soon it would reach our pond,
[00:11:51] there was a drop of about 2.5 meters, and it...
[00:11:55] gushed, within one hour it was already
[00:11:58] flooded, and by evening the farm was flooded and everything, and
[00:12:02] this is my property,
[00:12:04] for 3-4 days the water in the village remained at the same level and did not recede,
[00:12:08] says village elder Vasily Khomko, in general, according to him,
[00:12:12] Afanasievka was an island for at least 10 days, in the village
[00:12:15] there are supplies, both of their own products, and
[00:12:19] preserves, but
[00:12:23] - the world learned about us. and immediately volunteers were
[00:12:27] here, with water, with food, yes,
[00:12:30] and, essential products,
[00:12:34] all this was provided, and they didn't know about electricity, and
[00:12:37] flashlights, well, this is very, very much, so
[00:12:40] it's impossible
[00:12:41] to enumerate.
[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 Afanasievka, but
[00:12:52] there was no forced resettlement, emphasizes the village elder.
[00:13:55] I didn't believe that it would be here closer to us.
[00:13:58] Elena goes to show where the water came from, bypasses the wall with
[00:14:02] peeled plaster, on which it is visible what the level of flooding was.
[00:14:16] From the whole lake it
[00:14:25] was because there was a dam, the water came from there,
[00:14:28] the water came from there, the water came from there, there is a river further
[00:14:32] down, Elena most regrets the old
[00:14:36] fruit trees, which were simply washed away
[00:14:38] by the water.
[00:14:42] There were many trees, they all died, those old ones,
[00:14:45] they died because everything was flooded, the trees were not visible at all, yes,
[00:14:49] and the water was rising, well, those trees were completely under
[00:14:52] water, well, these are not those trees, those that were are no longer there.
[00:15:25] and it floated, whoever wanted it, it floated, well, it didn't float
[00:15:28] to us, yes, whatever wanted to, floated, there
[00:15:32] further is the river, and then through the dam, you see, there is already a line there, you can
[00:15:35] see it, I see, I see.
[00:15:46] Everything was floating, we saw it on this and
[00:15:50] we were worried, because it was reported
[00:15:53] that on the way to us some
[00:15:56] gas station was washed away, these oil
[00:15:59] stains, all this was affecting people and
[00:16:02] houses.
[00:16:07] completely and electricity
[00:16:24] was disconnected, so that there would be no short
[00:16:27] circuit, well, so that no such things
[00:16:31] would arise, all this was disconnected,
[00:16:33] water supply, well, there was no such thing, because there was.
[00:18:08] I will clarify, the water was here, where
[00:18:12] it flew in, this, yes, this, here it was, right there
[00:18:15] it was washing away with this
[00:18:18] plaster, everything was, all this
[00:18:21] was flooded, we could not enter here, and I
[00:18:25] sent you a video there, that on the ninth day, I
[00:18:29] stood like this here, and in boots I barely walked here, this was on
[00:18:33] the ninth day, yes, the water still completely covered
[00:18:36] the garden. and near
[00:18:38] the house, Mother of
[00:18:42] God, for 9 days the water stood here, it did not
[00:18:45] recede,
[00:18:49] and then on the ninth day I went into
[00:18:52] the house,
[00:18:55] when the water receded, yards like Valentina's were surveyed by a special
[00:18:58] commission of the starostyn district, explains Vasily Khomko. The commission
[00:19:02] recorded the fact of the flood of the farm, 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 and
[00:19:15] which recorded the damages,
[00:19:19] which were calculated, well, with the help of which
[00:19:23] the damages were calculated, they looked at the height
[00:19:26] of the flooding and based on that they calculated
[00:19:30] the damages that they suffered and calculated for people
[00:19:34] according to this restoration program, there was such a program.
[00:21:20] The water washed everything away, all this fell, the walls, this was not plastered here,
[00:21:23] all this collapsed like this, all completely, you have already
[00:21:27] installed it, yes. The commission did not
[00:21:31] calculate compensation for the restoration of such premises, explains village elder
[00:21:34] Vasily Khomko, it was only so that a person could restore their
[00:21:38] home, for housing, yes, but
[00:21:40] a cellar, a garage, some
[00:21:44] shed, no funds were allocated for this, only for
[00:21:48] repairs, and how is the procedure, how is it controlled that a person spends
[00:21:51] money specifically on this, they come and check, seriously,
[00:21:55] yes, funds are accrued to them, and then
[00:21:59] some time passes, and they say, we are going to check how you, how you
[00:22:02] spent these funds, and they drive around and look,
[00:22:06] how these funds
[00:22:07] were spent.
[00:22:12] Valentina shows what is left of the shed that supported the house from
[00:22:15] the garden side and the lake, this
[00:22:18] yes, it met the water.
[00:22:38] At Elena's neighbor, where we were earlier, the summer kitchen is also in a deplorable
[00:22:42] state, bare walls, the room is recognized as uninhabitable,
[00:22:45] so no compensation is
[00:22:47] due.
[00:23:24] well, it just crumbled in pieces, because we used to make this out of clay and straw
[00:23:28] so that it would be warm, here you see, here only
[00:23:32] the needles remained.
[00:23:35] In Elena's house, the renovation is finished, although the woman says that to the compensation of
[00:23:39] 2000 hryvnias she had to add her own money, there was nothing left for furniture and
[00:23:43] household appliances, they also
[00:23:46] said that furniture could not be bought, only.
[00:24:50] it was, I want to tell you one thing, that it was
[00:24:53] a very low-quality water, and
[00:24:56] after it the condition of groundwater deteriorated,
[00:25:00] well, not the condition, but the quality, well,
[00:25:03] the quality, it really deteriorated, it
[00:25:07] is still checking us, here in
[00:25:10] Afanasievka there is no centralized water supply, there are
[00:25:12] public wells, and they are constantly
[00:25:16] monitored by our uh...
[00:25:26] It so happened that on the day of our visit to Afanasievka, equipment for purifying
[00:25:30] drinking water arrived for installation, water from the well will be
[00:25:33] additionally filtered and will become ideal for
[00:25:36] consumption. According to the conditions of the volunteers who allocated money for
[00:25:40] the equipment, this water will be free for all residents
[00:25:43] of the village.
[00:25:46] Dmytro Yevchyn, Mykyta Isayka, Borys Mazur and Hryhoriy Pihnastyi Crime-Real.
[00:26:40] According to the consulting company Sovecon, Russian wheat
[00:26:44] exports in July-September of the current 2026 year
[00:26:48] will amount to 5.4 million tons, this is a minimum since
[00:26:51] the lean year of 2010. Then, let me remind you, due to
[00:26:55] drought in several regions, a third of the crops were lost, and
[00:26:58] the Russian government imposed an embargo on grain exports.
[00:27:02] The end. 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 now
[00:27:09] twice as much wheat has been harvested and threshed than in the entire
[00:27:12] 2010. In total, according to the forecast of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food,
[00:27:16] this year 88 million tons of wheat
[00:27:19] will be produced, 3 million less than in 2025,
[00:27:22] five 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 figure
[00:27:32] over the past 5 years, is explained by the fact that as a result of the war in
[00:27:36] the Black and Azov Seas, the ports through which grain was exported
[00:27:40] are virtually paralyzed. Let me remind you that in early September at
[00:27:43] a press conference in Bishkek, Vladimir Putin stated that
[00:27:46] over 40 days Ukrainian drones damaged more than
[00:27:50] 100 vessels in the waters of the Black and Azov Seas, after which
[00:27:53] civilian shipping there practically stopped. An emergency
[00:27:57] regime has been declared in the Rostov region, internal grain
[00:28:01] prices there collapsed below cost, which is fraught with
[00:28:04] the bankruptcy of agro-industrial enterprises. On average across Russia, according to
[00:28:08] Forbes, at the beginning of September, wheat prices were a
[00:28:11] quarter lower than a year earlier. This is despite the fact that the cost
[00:28:15] has increased, including due to costs associated with the fuel
[00:28:18] crisis. The government created an operational headquarters,
[00:28:21] which is trying to redirect export grain to other ports and
[00:28:25] stimulate exports by rail to China and Kazakhstan.
[00:28:29] However, quotas for state subsidies for grain transportation
[00:28:32] by rail were already used up in August. The main thing,
[00:28:36] however, is that all bypass routes are not able to replace
[00:28:40] the export capacity of the Black Sea and Azov ports. Minister
[00:28:44] of Agriculture Oksana Lut back in late August announced the possible
[00:28:48] implementation of state interventions in the grain market.
[00:28:51] This refers to the purchase and storage of grain at the expense of the budget, which should
[00:28:55] support prices and prevent agricultural producers
[00:28:58] from going bankrupt. However, according to the minister, the state is ready to buy
[00:29:01] from one to.
[00:29:04] 3 million tons of grain, it is impossible to get more money from the Ministry of Finance,
[00:29:07] meanwhile, in July-September alone, it was not possible to export more than 6
[00:29:11] million tons, so these interventions are unlikely
[00:29:15] to be able to support prices. In the end, we get another industry that
[00:29:18] found itself on the brink due to the war and requires urgent
[00:29:22] salvation, for which the government, due to the same war,
[00:29:25] has no money. For the war, however, it does. An industry that not
[00:29:28] only provides the country with export earnings, but is also responsible
[00:29:32] for. food security. By the way, Putin, who discussed damaged
[00:29:36] ships in Bishkek, refused a new grain deal there in Bishkek,
[00:29:40] and declared the damage
[00:29:42] non-critical. Compared to a world revolution, these are indeed mere
[00:29:46] trifles, but farmers may think otherwise. That's all
[00:29:49] for today. With you was Maksim Bland, see
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