Russia hid a real number of dead as a result of Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station - AP

About it reports the publication Associated Press. "Six months after the catastrophic explosion, which destroyed the Kakhovsk dam in the south of the Kherson region, the AP investigation revealed that the Russian occupation authorities significantly and deliberately lowed the number of those killed in one of the most pre -ier periods of the 22-month war," the statement said.

In addition, according to the publication, the occupying authority managed the process of issuing death certificates, actively exporting bodies, threatening and preventing local health workers and volunteers to assist the dead. After the dam of the dam on June 6, the Russian Federation stated that 59 people were drowned in a temporarily controlled territory.

However, according to journalists, only in the occupied city of Oleshki, whose population, according to the Ukrainian military, was 16,000 people before the destruction of the dam, the number of deaths reaches at least 100 people. "The exact number of those killed in Oleshki, the most populated city of the occupied territory before the war, and beyond, may never be known, even if the Ukrainian forces return the territory and be able to investigate on the spot," journalists say.

In order to investigate, the journalists of the publication spoke, in particular, with three health workers who kept records of the dead in Oleshki and one volunteer who hid the bodies. She later told about threats from the Russian police. The details also shared two informants who conveyed intelligence from the Security Service of Ukraine. According to their testimony, mass burials were excavated, and unrecognized bodies were taken away and no one saw them anymore.

"Their stories testify to the purposeful attempt of the Russian authorities to hide the true price of the dam of the dam, which, as AP installed, was probably arranged by Moscow. Oleshko residents are afraid that their stories will be forgotten and their home is slowly dying," the publication said. The locals told reporters that during the first three days the floods of the occupation authorities were not visible anywhere, obviously, they escaped, although they asked people to "not worry".

We will remind, in the report of the Institute of War Study of December 27, it was reported that the destruction of the military armed forces of the Russian Federation of Kakhovsky Hydroelectric power station in June 2023 detained the transition of the Defense Forces of Ukraine through the Dnieper to support Ukrainian counter -confusing operations. On June 6, 2023, Russian invaders undermined the Kakhovsk hydroelectric power station, resulting in flooding the closest settlements.