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00:01:00an hour ago we were already flooded,
00:01:02Afanasyevka became an island, so yes,
00:01:06tell Putin, thank you, and call him a Russian
00:01:10word, the one that they call him,
00:01:13how
00:01:17does flooded Afanasyevka live
00:01:20now, 3 years later,
00:01:22plastered, everything was
00:01:26there, all of this was flooded, it was somewhere...
00:02:103 years ago, many people in Ukraine and beyond learned about the village of Afanasyevka
00:02:13in Mykolaiv Oblast as a result of the blowing up of the Kakhovka HPP dam on June
00:02:176, 2023. Water surrounded the village from all
00:02:20sides. The populated area was surrounded on all sides by the Inhulets
00:02:23River. During the rise in water level, it turned into an
00:02:27island from which the locals had to. Afanasyevka
00:02:32is the only village that currently has no land connection
00:02:35with the region. This village simply
00:02:39turned into an island. The water flooded the fields and homesteads,
00:02:42people lost
00:02:43their homes.
00:02:51Vasyl Khomko is a native of Afanasyevka. He has lived here all his life.
00:02:54Previously, he worked as a hydraulic engineer at a state farm. Later, he became
00:02:57the village head. He talks about the explosion. year
00:03:15and
00:03:25it flooded well, but people's houses were
00:03:29not flooded. The gardens were flooded, there were dams for
00:03:32flooding, yes, people
00:03:35walked along these markers along the dam,
00:03:39so that it was visible where one could drive, there was not much water, well, there was
00:03:42enough water to drive along the dam, that was the maximum that
00:03:46was. In a straight line from Afanasyevka to Kakhovka HPP, almost
00:03:5050 km. Many, according to the head, simply did not believe
00:03:54that the water would reach them, because the most terrible thing for a long time in
00:03:57people's memory remained the March flood. Eighty-fifth,
00:04:01then a lot of snow fell during the winter, in spring the rivers overflowing their
00:04:04banks flooded many cities in the south, especially the east
00:04:08of Ukraine,
00:04:11naturally, from this, there was a lot of snow,
00:04:14the ice melted somehow instantly, and there was a lot of
00:04:18water, and it was backed up in the Dnieper, and the water
00:04:21here began to overflow its banks, and that's
00:04:24how it - we had
00:04:27flooding.
00:04:29One of Vasyl Khamko's tasks was regular measurement of the water level
00:04:33in Afanasyevka. In the first days after the dam explosion, the head says,
00:04:36nothing portended
00:04:38trouble. We measured, everyone was
00:04:42calm. The water arrived in, well, the river
00:04:45was full, the river was full.
00:04:49Yes, it overflowed a little from its banks onto such, onto
00:04:51such clearings, and there it was even
00:04:55possible, as I say, to fish, it, the fish came out onto
00:04:58the shallows, uh-huh. This was looking for some
00:05:01place
00:05:03for itself, and people were also fishing
00:05:06there.
00:05:08Even later, after the arrival of the district leadership in the village, Vasyl explains,
00:05:12there was still no threat of flooding
00:05:14of housing.
00:05:18They looked, and before their eyes, so to speak, for
00:05:22the first time the water began
00:05:25to overflow the dam, well, that is, everything was still
00:05:28normal, the water through the dam began to fill these
00:05:32ponds, it seemed that the trouble of Afanasyevka had passed, but it turned
00:05:35out, explains the former hydrologist Vasyl Khomko, that the village
00:05:39was flooded when the water went in the opposite direction into... it
00:05:51went back along the Inhulets here to us, it
00:05:55filled up completely, right up to the dams, because these ponds that
00:05:59we have are protected by dams, they are protected
00:06:02by dams, and the water in
00:06:05the Inhulets in the river filled up so much that it went over the dam and began to fill
00:06:09these ponds, well, that is, the water seeks... a place
00:06:12for itself to pour over, and it started
00:06:16ponds, and ponds, they are located
00:06:20around the village, that Afanasyevka, well,
00:06:23around the village, that is, like this, and it
00:06:27first, the water filled all these ponds, and
00:06:30then it started to rise
00:06:33simultaneously.
00:06:39Well, they said, just like that.
00:06:42around, that it would pass through the channel and that's it, it wouldn't
00:06:45touch the village, and by evening they had already torn down this
00:06:48dam, that's what those who remained with
00:06:52cows, those people live behind the village right there behind the village at the
00:06:55brigade, and we just drove here, and in the morning
00:06:58it was all over.
00:07:01These are shots from three years ago, the water rushed in so fast that almost
00:07:05no one in Afanasyevka managed to move household appliances or furniture from their
00:07:08homes.
00:07:13And my refrigerators are floating there, and TVs, everything is floating, well,
00:07:17we can't go further, here you can still, I'll open it for you now, if
00:07:21it works,
00:07:24this is all
00:07:25a refrigerator,
00:07:29oh, here are new ones, the children just bought them, they haven't even paid off the loan yet,
00:07:32oh, here's their furniture floating up,
00:07:36in that room, my grandson lives, a school
00:07:40desk, everything, a plasma TV, everything is there, everything,
00:07:43so, if you show this on air, thank Putin,
00:07:47and call him a Russian word, the one they call him.
00:08:09the hero of many stories of that time.
00:08:42so it was under the roofs in our one street there,
00:08:46well, on Shevchenko Street, well, there were five houses
00:08:49that were completely flooded, and 75 in
00:08:53Afanasiyivka, well, of those, 11
00:08:57houses, it seems, in which people
00:09:00did not live,
00:09:02yes, that is, 60, one can say that 64 houses
00:09:06were those with people who were flooded,
00:09:09in total there were 105 houses, three of which were
00:09:13Yuriyivka village in our old district, two settlements, Yuriyivka and
00:09:16Afanasyevka.
00:09:19This is a famous shot from 2023
00:09:22from above.
00:09:26This is what Afanasyevka looked like during the maximum
00:09:28flooding.
00:09:31Afanasyevka became an island. Yes, that's right. And all
00:09:34these houses that are located, which you see in the coastal
00:09:38zone, they were all those that were all flooded all around.
00:10:12and she was evacuated to our
00:10:15Snieverivka hospital, there was such a reception point
00:10:18for these refugees who were fleeing the water, and she was there, well,
00:10:22she was there in the village. It is a village, not
00:10:26a city, we have many
00:10:29relatives here, well, it is a village, relatives, and they just moved in with
00:10:33their relatives, everyone had some relative who could
00:10:37take them in.
00:10:40And what also saved us, explains the head, is that in
00:10:422023 everyone came to help, volunteers,
00:10:46military administration, State Emergency Service, National Police, and
00:10:49military personnel worked well, who deployed pontoon crossings for the evacuation
00:10:53of people and animals from...
00:11:25what we need for cows, there is a milking machine, everything, because we have everything, our
00:11:28farm is equipped according to European
00:11:30standards.
00:11:34The Kredener farmer family took the authorities' warnings
00:11:37seriously, so they partially managed to save their farm
00:11:40and business. We went and looked at that side where
00:11:44the level was higher, ours was lower, the level started to rise,
00:11:47to rise, and then we saw that it would soon reach our pond,
00:11:51there was a drop of about 2.5 meters, and it happened instantly.
00:12:25and immediately volunteers were here, with water,
00:12:29with food, yes, with,
00:12:32essential products, all this was
00:12:35provided, and they didn't know about light, and flashlights, well, it's
00:12:39very, very much, you can't even list
00:12:41it all.
00:12:45During the flood, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, 75 people
00:12:48were evacuated from the flooded part of Afanasyevka, but
00:12:51there was no forced resettlement, emphasizes the village head.
00:12:58That is, if a person wanted to, then they could, in principle,
00:13:02turn to, there was a ferry crossing, as I told you, it was organized, whoever
00:13:06wanted, and it's not just a crossing, you could also transport
00:13:09vehicles, well, it was such a crossing, that is, you could drive
00:13:12your car, yes, you could drive in and
00:13:16cross.
00:13:22Elena's house is right by the water, her garden abuts the lake. In
00:13:262023, the woman's farm and residential buildings
00:13:29went underwater. Elena recalls how it all
00:13:31happened.
00:13:35Yes, here it was like this.
00:13:39There, a little more,
00:13:42yes, a meter seventy-five in the house, here I don't know, how it was there, maybe
00:13:45the same, and you had time to react to all this, well,
00:13:48that is, to somehow escape, it rose slowly,
00:13:52or not, it rose slowly, but no one...
00:14:25there's a dam, water came from there, water came
00:14:28from there, water came from there, the river is further
00:14:32away from us. Most of all, Elena regrets the old
00:14:36fruit trees that were simply washed away
00:14:38by the water.
00:14:41there were a lot of trees, they all died, those old ones
00:14:44died, because everything was flooded, the trees were not visible at all, aha,
00:14:48yes, and the water was rising, well, those trees were completely submerged
00:14:52in water, well, not these trees, those that were, they are no longer there.
00:15:25it floated in, whoever wanted to, floated in, well, it didn't float
00:15:28to us, yes, whatever wanted to floated, there
00:15:32is a river further on, then through the dam, you see, there is already a line, you can
00:15:35see it there, I see, I see.
00:15:46everything was floating, we saw it there and
00:15:49we were worried, because it was reported
00:15:53that an gas station was washed
00:15:55away on the way to us, these oil
00:15:59spots, all this was floating to people and
00:16:02houses.
00:16:35well, that didn't happen, because it was. This well was flooded,
00:16:39it was
00:16:39flooded.
00:16:45That's how it turned out, Elena explains, that after the flood, almost the only
00:16:49plus was that the garden didn't have to be fertilized
00:16:51additionally. For a couple of years, this grew
00:16:55here, we didn't feed it anything, yes, we
00:16:58didn't feed it anything, so, this year it's a little
00:17:01worse.
00:17:04Three years later, for many residents of Afanasyevka who suffered.
00:18:08I'll clarify for you, the water was here, where it peeled off,
00:18:12yes, here it was, right there
00:18:16it washed away with this plaster, everything
00:18:19was, all this was flooded, we couldn't
00:18:23go in here, and I sent you a video there, that
00:18:27on the ninth day, I stood like this and walked here
00:18:30in boots, this is on the ninth
00:18:33day, yes, the water still completely covered
00:18:36the garden. and near
00:18:38the house, Holy Mother of God,
00:18:42for 9 days the water stood here, it didn't
00:18:45recede.
00:18:49And then, on the ninth day, I went
00:18:52into the house.
00:18:54When the water receded, special commission of the starostynskyi district
00:18:58inspected such yards as Valentina's, explains Vasyl Khomko. The commission
00:19:01recorded the fact of flooding of the household, then the data
00:19:05was transferred to the district commission.
00:19:09Based on our acts, a commission from the
00:19:12district came out
00:19:15and recorded the damage,
00:19:19and calculated, well, using which
00:19:22the damage was calculated, they looked at the height
00:19:26of the flooding and there, based on this, they
00:19:30calculated the damage that was sustained and calculated for people
00:19:34according to this restoration program, such was the program.
00:20:07we had the floor collapsed, well, everything
00:20:11was removed here, everything was cleaned up from the
00:20:13walls, there was nothing, only
00:20:17stones were there, everything was collapsed, everything
00:20:20was lying here, there was a slab here, the stove, everything
00:20:23was covered, only bricks and stones were on the ground, everything was
00:20:27covered in soot.
00:20:30For all three years, Valentina has been living with her daughter. Her house in Afanasyevka, except for
00:20:34the basement, was not flooded, but she cannot live in her own home.
00:20:50Three years ago, Valentina had a summer kitchen and outbuildings
00:20:53left, and this is how the potatoes were
00:20:56collected here in the garden,
00:20:58potatoes.
00:21:01Here it is, well, this was our kitchen, a summer
00:21:04kitchen, it was a summer kitchen, yes, my parents were here, so it was a summer kitchen, my brother
00:21:08was disabled, so he lived here, this is a summer kitchen, the walls
00:21:12were like that, everything was beautiful, everything
00:21:15was plastered, everything was here and everything was white, everything
00:21:18was there. I took everything down, all this fell, all
00:21:22this was not peeled off, all this collapsed like
00:21:25this completely, now they have installed
00:21:29compensation for the restoration of such premises was not
00:21:32calculated by the commission, explains the head Vasyl Khomko. It was
00:21:36only for a person to restore their home, for
00:21:39a home, and for a cellar,
00:21:42a garage, some shed, funds were no longer
00:21:45allocated for this, only for
00:21:47repairs.
00:22:20Everything here collapsed
00:22:22completely. Valentina has no money to rebuild the farmyard
00:22:26and complete the repair of the living quarters. She worked in the village and kindergarten
00:22:30all her life, now she is retired.
00:22:33At Elena's neighbor, where we were
00:22:38earlier, the summer kitchen is also in a deplorable state, bare walls,
00:22:42the room is recognized as uninhabitable, so compensation is not
00:22:45due. everything here...
00:22:49Afanasyevka was under occupation for
00:24:057 months, and like many settlements of Snihurivka district, the local
00:24:09village suffered from shelling. Russian soldiers took away phones,
00:24:12checked documents, and searched for ATO veterans, but due to Afanasyevka's
00:24:16unique location in the lowlands, they did not stay long.
00:24:50I want to tell you one thing: it was
00:24:54such low-quality water, and after it
00:24:57the state of groundwater deteriorated, well,
00:25:00not the state, but the quality, well, the quality
00:25:04deteriorated very much, and it still checks
00:25:08us, in Afanasyevka we don't have
00:25:11a centralized system, there are public wells,
00:25:13and they are constantly monitored by
00:25:17our, It so happened
00:25:26that on the day of our visit to Afanasyevka, they came to install
00:25:30equipment for purifying drinking water. Water from the well will be
00:25:33additionally filtered and will become ideal for consumption.
00:25:37Under the terms of the volunteers who allocated money for the equipment, this
00:25:40water will be free for all residents
00:25:43of the village.
00:25:45Dmytro Yevchin, Mykyta Isayka, Borys Mazur, and Hryhoriy Pehnastyi, Crimea realities.
00:26:40According to SovEcon consulting company, Russian wheat exports in July-September
00:26:44of the current year 2026 will amount to
00:26:485.4 million tons. This is the minimum since the
00:26:51lean year of 2010. Then, I recall, due to
00:26:55drought in a number of regions, a third of the crops were lost,
00:26:58and the Russian government introduced an embargo on grain exports.
00:27:02The law. It all ended with the Arab Spring. Now, with the harvest,
00:27:05everything is relatively good. There is no talk of records, but already
00:27:08twice as much wheat has been harvested and threshed as in all of
00:27:122010. In total, according to the forecast of the Ministry of Agriculture,
00:27:1588 million tons of wheat will be produced
00:27:18this year, 3 million less than in 2025,
00:27:225 million more than in 2024. So, the collapse
00:27:25of exports by more than two times compared to last year,
00:27:28almost 2.5 times compared to the average annual
00:27:31indicator over the last 5 years, is explained by the fact that as a result
00:27:35of the war in the Black and Azov Seas, the ports through which
00:27:38grain was exported are virtually paralyzed. I remind you that in
00:27:42early September, at a press conference in Bishkek, Vladimir Putin
00:27:45stated that in 40 days Ukrainian drones damaged more than
00:27:49100 ships in the Black and Azov Sea areas,
00:27:52after which civilian shipping there virtually stopped. In
00:27:56Rostov Oblast, a state of emergency has been declared,
00:27:59internal grain prices there have fallen below
00:28:03cost price, which threatens the bankruptcy of agricultural enterprises. On
00:28:07average across Russia, according to Forbes, as of early September, wheat prices
00:28:10were a quarter lower than a year earlier. This is despite the fact that
00:28:14the cost price has increased, including due to costs associated with
00:28:17the fuel crisis. The government has created an operational
00:28:21headquarters that is trying to redirect export grain to
00:28:24other ports and stimulate transportation by rail to China and
00:28:28Kazakhstan. However, quotas for state subsidies for
00:28:31transportation by rail were already chosen in
00:28:35August. The main thing is that all bypass routes are not
00:28:38able to replace the export capacities of the Black Sea and
00:28:42Azov ports. Minister of Agriculture Oksana Lut back in
00:28:45late August announced the possibility of state interventions
00:28:49in the grain market. This refers to purchasing and storing grain at
00:28:53the expense of the budget, which should support prices and prevent
00:28:56agricultural producers from going bankrupt. However, according to the
00:28:59minister, the state is ready to buy from one to three.
00:29:21In 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,
00:29:25there is. An industry that not only provides the country with export
00:29:28revenue, but also is responsible for...
00:29:31Compared to the world revolution, it is
00:29:43really a mere trifle, but farmers may think
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00:30:22Zaporizhzhia, that's about 700,000 people living
00:30:2625-30 km from the front line,
00:30:29that's daily attacks of aerial bombs, Teodovo with
00:30:33recently FPV drones, I'm Yaroslav Krychko, this is
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00:30:39flying into the city, which, despite everything, is trying to live
00:30:43a normal life. We will show the island getting
00:30:46worse, we will reflect on what awaits Zaporizhzhia in
00:30:49the future.