Ukraine to compensate farmers for crops lost due to Kakhovka dam destruction
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After Russia blew
up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Plant dam in June, the resulting flooding
wiped out vast quantities of crops in southern Ukraine. Ukrainian PM Denys
Shmyhal announced on Aug. 4 that farmers will be eligible for compensation from
the government.
Farmers will be able to get UAH 3,300 ($90) per hectare of farmable land flooded, up to UAH 100,000 ($2,700).
The cabinet is allocating UAH 271 million ($7.3 million) to the corresponding fund and transferring it to Kherson and Mykolayiv regional administrations.
On June 6, Russian forces blew up the Kakhovka HEP, which they had controlled for over a year. Cities and villages downstream on the Dnipro River were completely or partially flooded, and more than 75 people died.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the dam’s destruction the largest man-made environmental disaster in Europe in decades.
The European Parliament strongly condemned the act, calling it a Russian war crime.
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