A week after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam caused flooding across the Kherson region, I drove there with Juliy Morozov, a long-established civic activist based in the nearby industrial city of Kryvyi Rih.
The head of Shelter+, a pre-invasion community centre now turned into a shelter and humanitarian hub for internally displaced persons (IDP), Morozov also founded a second local organisation, the Union of Responsible Citizens.
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I started the Ukraine Relief Project at forPeace, an all volunteer organisation that gets donations to local Ukrainian organisations to help with humanitarian relief. The destruction of the dam has caused huge flooding, creating severe problems with access to water and health risks. The sheer destruction of homes and property have had a catastrophic effect on the region.
