Over a month has passed since the explosion of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, but what exactly is happening on the occupied east bank of Kherson Oblast, how many people have died and gone missing, remains unknown.

On June 21, the occupation "authorities" reported 41 dead throughout the Russian-controlled part of Kherson Oblast, and the "medical services" reported 121 injured. At the same time, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry’s National Resistance Center reported that, according to preliminary data, more than 500 people died in the town of Oleshky alone. Hundreds of local residents have not yet been contacted by their relatives – and their fate is unknown.

The Russians do not allow international missions to the occupied part of Kherson Oblast and are doing their best to conceal the scale of the disaster: they do not hand over the bodies to relatives, bury the dead in mass graves, and falsify the cause of death.

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