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00:01:00within one hour it was already flooded, Afanasievka
00:01:03became an island, yes,
00:01:07tell Putin thank you, and call him by the Russian word they
00:01:11call him by,
00:01:17how does flooded Afanasievka live now,
00:01:203 years later,
00:01:22it was washing away everything with that plaster, everything was, everything
00:01:26was, everything was flooded.
00:02:083 years ago, many in Ukraine and beyond learned about Afanasievka,
00:02:12Mykolaiv region, due to the dam breach of the Kakhovka HPP on June
00:02:156, 2023, water
00:02:19surrounded the village from all sides. The settlement
00:02:22was surrounded on all sides by the Inhulets River and during the rise
00:02:25in water level it turned into an island from which
00:02:28locals had to be evacuated by boats.
00:02:32Afanasievka is 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 fields and farmsteads,
00:02:43people lost
00:02:43their homes.
00:02:51Vasily Khomko is a native of Afanasievka. He has lived here all his life.
00:02:54Earlier he worked as a hydraulic engineer in a state farm, later he became
00:02:57the village elder, he talks about the explosion, as...
00:05:00It was looking for a place
00:05:04for itself, and people were still catching
00:05:06there,
00:05:09even later after the district leadership came to the village, he explains.
00:05:42towards the destroyed dam, then the waters of the Dnieper filled
00:05:45the Inhulets, encircling the village,
00:05:48when the water from the Dnieper flowed back along
00:05:52the Inhulets here to us, it
00:05:55filled up completely all the way to the dams, because these ponds that
00:05:59we have, they are protected by dams, dams
00:06:02protect them, and the water in
00:06:05the Inhulets in the river filled up so much that it went over the dam and started
00:06:09filling these ponds, well, that is, the water is looking for a place
00:06:13for itself to flow over, and it started
00:06:16the ponds, and the ponds, they are located
00:06:20around the village, that Afanasievka, well,
00:06:23around the village, that is, that's how it
00:06:27happened, they first filled these ponds
00:06:31and then started to rise
00:06:33simultaneously,
00:06:39well, they said, as those who know are always around,
00:06:43that it will pass through the channel and that's it, it won't touch the village, and by
00:06:47evening this dam was already blown up, that
00:06:50who remained with cows, there were people living behind the village
00:06:54right there behind the village on the farm, and we drove them
00:06:57here in the morning,
00:06:58that's it.
00:07:01These are frames from three years ago, the water rushed so quickly that almost
00:07:05no one in Afanasievka had time to take out household appliances or furniture from their
00:07:09homes.
00:07:13and there my refrigerators are floating, and TVs, everything is floating,
00:07:17well, we won't go further, here you can still, I will open it for you now
00:07:21if
00:07:25it works,
00:07:25this is the refrigerator,
00:07:29here are new ones, the children just bought them, they haven't paid off the loan yet,
00:07:33oh, here their furniture floated up, there in that
00:07:37room my grandson lives, a school
00:07:40table, everything, a plasma TV, everything.
00:07:42That's it, so if you show this on air, tell
00:07:46Putin thank you, and call him by the Russian word they call him by.
00:08:08Yuriy Danylovych from Afanasievka, the hero of many stories of that time, readily
00:08:12told journalists about the flood, showed his damaged
00:08:16farm, his house and outbuildings in
00:08:192023 were almost completely
00:08:21flooded. so that's the help we got from
00:08:25our brotherly people, about 80 houses, maybe more,
00:08:28we still have roofs visible, but there further on people don't even have
00:08:31roofs. This prediction by Yuriy at a glance
00:08:35turned out to be correct, to be completely precise, the man was only wrong by
00:08:39five households.
00:08:42that's how it was on the roofs with us, one street there,
00:08:46well, on Shevchenko street, there were five
00:08:49houses that were definitely flooded, and
00:08:5375 in Afanasievka, well, out of them there were
00:08:57some 11 houses, it seems, in
00:09:00which people did not live, that is,
00:09:0360, one can say, 64 houses
00:09:06were those with people who were flooded,
00:09:10in total there were 105 houses. 30 of them are
00:09:13Yuriyivka village in our starostyn district, two settlements Yuriyivka and
00:09:17Afanasievka.
00:09:20This is a famous shot from 2023 from
00:09:22above.
00:09:26This is what Afanasievka looked like during the maximum
00:09:29flooding.
00:09:31Afanasievka became an island. Yes, yes. And all
00:09:35these houses that are located, which you see, in the coastal
00:09:38zone, they were all flooded.
00:10:12and she was evacuated to
00:10:15our Snihurivka hospital, there was such a reception point for
00:10:18these refugees from the water and she was there, well,
00:10:22she was there for the village. it's a village, it's not a
00:10:26city, we have many
00:10:29relatives here, well, it's 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 them, explains the village elder, is that in
00:10:432023 everyone came to help, volunteers,
00:10:46the military administration, the State Emergency Service, the National Police and
00:10:50the military worked well, who deployed pontoon crossings for the evacuation of
00:10:53people and animals from
00:10:55Afanasievka Island.
00:10:59We, as people, people will survive, but the cattle, they are tied up,
00:11:02they want to eat. In Afanasievka, farmers
00:11:06who kept a cowshed on the shore of the lake responded
00:11:09to the threat in time. Only it's still all flooded, you see,
00:11:13we have a farm there, and hay, and a house, everything, everything
00:11:16was flooded. Well, when the flood started, we already understood that
00:11:20it would be, it would be trouble. We quickly moved
00:11:24with a tractor, loaded everything we needed for the cows, there's a milking machine, everything, because
00:11:27we have everything, our farm is equipped according to
00:11:30European standards.
00:11:34The Kridener farmer family took the authorities' warnings
00:11:37seriously, so they partially managed to save their farm
00:11:41and business. We went and looked at the other side, where the level
00:11:44was higher, ours was lower, the higher level started to rise,
00:11:48to rise, and then we saw that soon it would reach our pond,
00:11:51there was a drop of about 2.5 meters, and it...
00:11:55gushed, within one hour it was already
00:11:58flooded, and by evening the farm was flooded and everything, and
00:12:02this is my property,
00:12:04for 3-4 days the water in the village remained at the same level and did not recede,
00:12:08says village elder Vasily Khomko, in general, according to him,
00:12:12Afanasievka was an island for at least 10 days, in the village
00:12:15there are supplies, both of their own products, and
00:12:19preserves, but
00:12:23- the world learned about us. and immediately volunteers were
00:12:27here, with water, with food, yes,
00:12:30and, essential products,
00:12:34all this was provided, and they didn't know about electricity, and
00:12:37flashlights, well, this is very, very much, so
00:12:40it's impossible
00:12:41to enumerate.
00:12:45During the flood, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, 75 people
00:12:48were evacuated from the flooded part of Afanasievka, but
00:12:52there was no forced resettlement, emphasizes the village elder.
00:13:55I didn't believe that it would be here closer to us.
00:13:58Elena goes to show where the water came from, bypasses the wall with
00:14:02peeled plaster, on which it is visible what the level of flooding was.
00:14:16From the whole lake it
00:14:25was because there was a dam, the water came from there,
00:14:28the water came from there, the water came from there, there is a river further
00:14:32down, Elena most regrets the old
00:14:36fruit trees, which were simply washed away
00:14:38by the water.
00:14:42There were many trees, they all died, those old ones,
00:14:45they died because everything was flooded, the trees were not visible at all, yes,
00:14:49and the water was rising, well, those trees were completely under
00:14:52water, well, these are not those trees, those that were are no longer there.
00:15:25and it floated, whoever wanted it, it floated, well, it didn't float
00:15:28to us, yes, whatever wanted to, floated, there
00:15:32further is the river, and then through the dam, you see, there is already a line there, you can
00:15:35see it, I see, I see.
00:15:46Everything was floating, we saw it on this and
00:15:50we were worried, because it was reported
00:15:53that on the way to us some
00:15:56gas station was washed away, these oil
00:15:59stains, all this was affecting people and
00:16:02houses.
00:16:07completely and electricity
00:16:24was disconnected, so that there would be no short
00:16:27circuit, well, so that no such things
00:16:31would arise, all this was disconnected,
00:16:33water supply, well, there was no such thing, because there was.
00:18:08I will clarify, the water was here, where
00:18:12it flew in, this, yes, this, here it was, right there
00:18:15it was washing away with this
00:18:18plaster, everything was, all this
00:18:21was flooded, we could not enter here, and I
00:18:25sent you a video there, that on the ninth day, I
00:18:29stood like this here, and in boots I barely walked here, this was on
00:18:33the ninth day, yes, the water still completely covered
00:18:36the garden. and near
00:18:38the house, Mother of
00:18:42God, for 9 days the water stood here, it did not
00:18:45recede,
00:18:49and then on the ninth day I went into
00:18:52the house,
00:18:55when the water receded, yards like Valentina's were surveyed by a special
00:18:58commission of the starostyn district, explains Vasily Khomko. The commission
00:19:02recorded the fact of the flood of the farm, 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 and
00:19:15which recorded the damages,
00:19:19which were calculated, well, with the help of which
00:19:23the damages were calculated, they looked at the height
00:19:26of the flooding and based on that they calculated
00:19:30the damages that they suffered and calculated for people
00:19:34according to this restoration program, there was such a program.
00:21:20The water washed everything away, all this fell, the walls, this was not plastered here,
00:21:23all this collapsed like this, all completely, you have already
00:21:27installed it, yes. The commission did not
00:21:31calculate compensation for the restoration of such premises, explains village elder
00:21:34Vasily Khomko, it was only so that a person could restore their
00:21:38home, for housing, yes, but
00:21:40a cellar, a garage, some
00:21:44shed, no funds were allocated for this, only for
00:21:48repairs, and how is the procedure, how is it controlled that a person spends
00:21:51money specifically on this, they come and check, seriously,
00:21:55yes, funds are accrued to them, and then
00:21:59some time passes, and they say, we are going to check how you, how you
00:22:02spent these funds, and they drive around and look,
00:22:06how these funds
00:22:07were spent.
00:22:12Valentina shows what is left of the shed that supported the house from
00:22:15the garden side and the lake, this
00:22:18yes, it met the water.
00:22:38At Elena's neighbor, where we were earlier, the summer kitchen is also in a deplorable
00:22:42state, bare walls, the room is recognized as uninhabitable,
00:22:45so no compensation is
00:22:47due.
00:23:24well, it just crumbled in pieces, because we used to make this out of clay and straw
00:23:28so that it would be warm, here you see, here only
00:23:32the needles remained.
00:23:35In Elena's house, the renovation is finished, although the woman says that to the compensation of
00:23:392000 hryvnias she had to add her own money, there was nothing left for furniture and
00:23:43household appliances, they also
00:23:46said that furniture could not be bought, only.
00:24:50it was, I want to tell you one thing, that it was
00:24:53a very low-quality water, and
00:24:56after it the condition of groundwater deteriorated,
00:25:00well, not the condition, but the quality, well,
00:25:03the quality, it really deteriorated, it
00:25:07is still checking us, here in
00:25:10Afanasievka there is no centralized water supply, there are
00:25:12public wells, and they are constantly
00:25:16monitored by our uh...
00:25:26It so happened that on the day of our visit to Afanasievka, equipment for purifying
00:25:30drinking water arrived for installation, water from the well will be
00:25:33additionally filtered and will become ideal for
00:25:36consumption. According to the conditions of the volunteers who allocated money for
00:25:40the equipment, this water will be free for all residents
00:25:43of the village.
00:25:46Dmytro Yevchyn, Mykyta Isayka, Borys Mazur and Hryhoriy Pihnastyi Crime-Real.
00:26:40According to the consulting company Sovecon, Russian wheat
00:26:44exports in July-September of the current 2026 year
00:26:48will amount to 5.4 million tons, this is a minimum since
00:26:51the lean year of 2010. Then, let me remind you, due to
00:26:55drought in several regions, a third of the crops were lost, and
00:26:58the Russian government imposed an embargo on grain exports.
00:27:02The end. 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 now
00:27:09twice as much wheat has been harvested and threshed than in the entire
00:27:122010. In total, according to the forecast of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food,
00:27:16this year 88 million tons of wheat
00:27:19will be produced, 3 million less than in 2025,
00:27:22five 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 figure
00:27:32over the past 5 years, is explained by the fact that as a result of the war in
00:27:36the Black and Azov Seas, the ports through which grain was exported
00:27:40are virtually paralyzed. Let me remind you that in early September at
00:27:43a press conference in Bishkek, Vladimir Putin stated that
00:27:46over 40 days Ukrainian drones damaged more than
00:27:50100 vessels in the waters of the Black and Azov Seas, after which
00:27:53civilian shipping there practically stopped. An emergency
00:27:57regime has been declared in the Rostov region, internal grain
00:28:01prices there collapsed below cost, which is fraught with
00:28:04the bankruptcy of agro-industrial enterprises. On average across Russia, according to
00:28:08Forbes, at the beginning of September, wheat prices were a
00:28:11quarter lower than a year earlier. This is despite the fact that the cost
00:28:15has increased, including due to costs associated with the fuel
00:28:18crisis. The government created an operational headquarters,
00:28:21which is trying to redirect export grain to other ports and
00:28:25stimulate exports by rail to China and Kazakhstan.
00:28:29However, quotas for state subsidies for grain transportation
00:28:32by rail were already used up in August. The main thing,
00:28:36however, is that all bypass routes are not able to replace
00:28:40the export capacity of the Black Sea and Azov ports. Minister
00:28:44of Agriculture Oksana Lut back in late August announced the possible
00:28:48implementation of state interventions in the grain market.
00:28:51This refers to the purchase and storage of grain at the expense of the budget, which should
00:28:55support prices and prevent agricultural producers
00:28:58from going bankrupt. However, according to the minister, the state is ready to buy
00:29:01from one to.
00:29:043 million tons of grain, it is impossible to get more money from the Ministry of Finance,
00:29:07meanwhile, in July-September alone, it was not possible to export more than 6
00:29:11million tons, so these interventions are unlikely
00:29:15to be able to support prices. In the end, we get another industry that
00:29:18found itself on the brink due to the war and requires urgent
00:29:22salvation, for which the government, due to the same war,
00:29:25has no money. For the war, however, it does. An industry that not
00:29:28only provides the country with export earnings, but is also responsible
00:29:32for. food security. By the way, Putin, who discussed damaged
00:29:36ships in Bishkek, refused a new grain deal there in Bishkek,
00:29:40and declared the damage
00:29:42non-critical. Compared to a world revolution, these are indeed mere
00:29:46trifles, but farmers may think otherwise. That's all
00:29:49for today. With you was Maksim Bland, see
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00:30:22Zaporizhzhia, that's about 700,000 people, living
00:30:2625-30 km from the front line. This is
00:30:30daily attacks by aerial bombs.
00:30:32Shaheds, and recently FPV drones. I am Yaroslav
00:30:36Krychko, this is Donbass-Real. And today we will tell you how much
00:30:40is flying at the city, which, despite everything, is trying to live
00:30:43a normal life. We will show the island of Portitsa
00:30:46and reflect on what awaits Zaporizhzhia in
00:30:50the future.
00:30:56Maximum speed and concentration - such movement on everything.