at least 16 people are dead and 31 are missing after devastating floods were triggered by the destruction of a russian held dam, which kyiv and moscow blame each other over. out of the 16 killed, ia were in the kherson region and two in the mykolaiv region. and closer to ukraine s capital, kyiv, falling debris from russian missiles destroyed a community and has left several injured. the bbc s yalda hakim has more. on the outskirts of the capital, the community here is busily working away, trying to clean up following the missile attack by the russians. we saw earlier the military had arrived here, they had brought in some roof panels and you can see the clean up operation is continuing. the neighbours are getting stuck in, trying to help each other as much as possible. this is a community that has been impacted for the second time this past year. they ve said they have been targeted by russian missiles. the housejust behind me, an 80 year old woman lived
attack by the russians. we saw earlier the military had arrived here, they had brought in some roof panels and you can see the clean up operation is continuing. the neighbours are getting stuck in, trying to help each other as much as possible. this is a community that has been impacted for the second time this past year. they ve said they have been targeted by russian missiles. the house just behind targeted by russian missiles. the housejust behind me, an 80 year old woman lived there, she has been taken to hospital. her house looks completely destroyed. earlier, we saw plumes of smoke and, really, you get a sense ofjust how bad things have gotten the people here just on the outskirts of the capital, kyiv. we can also see parts of shrapnel and parts of the missiles just scattered here on the ground. a little earlier, i spoke to a 12 year old boy who was home alone at the time, and he said
the community here is busily working away, trying to clean up following that missile attack by the russians. we saw earlier the military had arrived here. they had brought in some roof panels. and you can see the clean up operation is continuing. the neighbours are getting stuck in, trying to help each other as much as possible. this is a community that has been impacted for the second time this past year. they ve said that they have been targeted by russian missiles. the housejust behind me, an 80 year old woman lived there. she s been taken to hospital. her house looks completely destroyed. earlier, we saw plumes of smoke. and, really, you get a sense of just how bad things have gotten for the people here, just on the outskirts of the capital, kyiv. we can also see parts of shrapnel and parts of the missiles just scattered here on the ground.
already, we are seeing an operation take place in this little street, this little village. people and the community are getting right in. neighbours are coming in to help one another out. wejust saw neighbours are coming in to help one another out. we just saw the military show up and they brought some roof panels that you can see just behind me over there. it is considerable damage done to the street. the house that you can see, which my cameraman will show you now, at to plumes of smoke when we arrived, and we were told that an 80 year old woman lived there, she is being taken to hospital. this house, if we just come right around, you can see the damage to this vehicle. a boy was in this house on its own, and i went to speak to him to find out what had happened. i was told that his leg was injured. he managed to get into an underground bunker which saved his life. just have a listen.
i v e i ve seen, first of all, people absolutely shocked by the fact that this area, but as villages come under attack and most of the debris you re seeing in the damaged as a result of the air defence systems that were hard at work to try and deal with the air strikes but ijust want to show you this area here. we really think about it, this attack took place just a few hours ago and already, we are seeing an operation take place in this little street, little village in the community coming and and reducing the military show up in roof panels and over there, we have seen considerable damage done to the street in the house he can see and my germans going to show you now, problems of