Kherson is flooded for a second day following the destruction of a huge dam upstream of the city.
The first wave of evacuations, caused more by panic than by a real rise in water, broke off on Tuesday afternoon, says Oleg, a local volunteer who rescued residents in the Korabel ‘microdistrict’ – essentially an island that has been under constant fire from Russian artillery since November.
But on Wednesday morning, those living nearest the edge of the swollen Dnipro river found themselves trapped.
