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Ukraine to seek intl aid in overcoming floods aftermath

    29 March 2024 Friday
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    The Ukrainian government ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to request international assistance in the aftermath of the devastating floods that hit the western part of the country.

    The Foreign Ministry is to consider a request for international help within three days, according to the Cabinet's instruction made public on Wednesday.



    Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko said the country needs 800 million dollars to repair the damage.



    On Tuesday, President Viktor Yushchenko issued a decree announcing six western provinces the zones of emergency ecological situation.



    Under the Constitution, the decree has to be endorsed by the parliament which will convene for an extraordinary session on July 31.



    The crisis zones include settlements in the Vinnitsa, Ivano-Frankovsk, Transcarpathia, Lvov, Ternopol and Chernovtsy regions.



    Yushchenko ordered the government to allocate additional funds and resources to normalize the situation. The government will also decide on additional state procurements of essential goods and foodstuffs for the population.



    Reports on Tuesday said the number of fatalities killed in floods in western Ukraine had risen to 26. The casualty list includes five children, and dozens have been reported missing.



    Some 15,000 people have been evacuated from the inundated Ivano-Frankovsk, Lvov, Transcarpathian, Ternopol and Chernovtsy regions. According to the press service of Ukraine's Emergency Situations Ministry, the water level has decreased on the rivers Dnestr, Prut, and Tisa and elsewhere by one to two meters.



    In the past four days, the water level has risen by 9 to 10 meters in a number of locations.



    Traffic was suspended on the Odessa-Reni highway on Tuesday morning, and the holiday-makers near the Dnestr estuary were strongly recommended to leave recreation centers and move away from the river.



    Last Sunday, the head of a government commission, First Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Turchinov described the flood situation as extremely grave.



    “Ukraine has not seen anything like that for the past 100 years,” he said at a briefing in Ivano-Frankovsk.



    A total of 21,000 houses and 18,000 hectares of arable lands were partially flooded as a result of torrential rains that have continued in the Lvov, Transcarpathian, Ternopol, Chernovtsy and Ivano-Frankovsk regions from July 23.



    A total of 258 settlements, 209 car bridges and 214 pedestrian bridges have been damaged alone in the Ivano-Frankovsk region, the worst hit by the flooding, and 160 settlements have been cut off from electricity supply there.



    Yushchenko and visited Ivano-Frankovsk. The prime minister personally checked the work of the government commission for relief efforts.



    itar-tass

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