Deluge from 決裂d Ukrainian dam is 最新の 悲劇 for Kherson 居住（者）s since ロシアの 侵略
KHERSON, ウクライナ共和国 (AP) - Yurii, a former Ukrainian 兵士, knows all too 井戸／弁護士席 about living in his rickety attic: It was here, during Russia´s eight-month 占領／職業 of the southern city of Kherson, that he hid to 避ける 逮捕（する） by the invaders.
Now, the 51-year-old in 疲労，（軍の）雑役s is taking 避難 again, after the 最新の big 開発 in Russia´s war in ウクライナ共和国: A 違反 of the Kakhovka dam upstream on the Dnieper River that sent 洪水s 噴出するing through his home and rising to the low 辛勝する／優位 of his corrugated metal roof.
当局 on both 味方するs of the river - ロシアのs 支配（する）／統制する the east bank 近づく the delta, the Ukrainians the west - say thousands of people have lost their homes in the 激しい flood, where waters were still rising on Wednesday.
Like many other 決定するd and 反抗的な Ukrainians, Yurii has 直面するd 災害 after 災害 since ロシアの 軍隊s swept into ウクライナ共和国 over 15 months ago. Like many, his 怒り／怒る has grown over their perceived 無視（する） for 平和的な Ukrainians.
"They do it without pitying us," he said, clutching one of his three kittens by the scruff of its neck, "特に against 平和的な people."
"My house has 溺死するd," said Yurii - nom de guerre "Maidan" -- who 拒絶する／低下するd to 供給する his family 指名する out of 関心 for possible repercussions if the ロシアのs return. He fought ロシアのs and Russia-支援するd 分離主義者s in a 衝突 that began in 2014 and 増大するd into a 十分な-規模 war last year.
A man gets to his flooded house in Kherson, ウクライナ共和国, Thursday, June 8, 2023. 洪水s from a 崩壊（する）d dam kept rising in southern ウクライナ共和国 on Wednesday, 軍隊ing hundreds of people to 逃げる their homes in a major 緊急 操作／手術 that brought a 劇の new dimension to the war with Russia, now in its 16th month. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Kherson was 再度捕まえるd by Ukrainian 軍隊s in November, 場内取引員／株価 a momentous victory for ウクライナ共和国 and a humiliating 敗北・負かす for the Kremlin. The 居住（者）s of Kherson 迎える／歓迎するd ウクライナ共和国´s army with jubilation, celebrating the 解放 of the city for days.
They 持つ／拘留する の上に hope that the worst is over. Many 苦しむd 乱用s, 拷問s, and unjustified 拘留，拘置s during Russia´s 占領／職業. The Ukrainian 再度捕まえる of Kherson 即時に placed the city on the southern 前線 line, 直面するing daily ロシアの attacks from across the Dnieper River, mostly using 大砲 or drones.
These relentless strikes frequently 的 非軍事の areas, resulting in 決まりきった仕事 死傷者 報告（する）／憶測s. 一方／合間, the 大多数 of the Kherson 地域, 位置を示すd on the other bank of the Dnieper, remains under ロシアの 占領／職業.
These days, Yurii gets around using a two-by-four to paddle a 一時しのぎの物，策 raft cobbled together out of a Styrofoam sheet 攻撃するd to a 木造の board. He believes the 主張 of Ukrainian 当局 that ロシアの 軍隊s deliberately destroyed the da m. Russia 非難するs Ukrainian 爆撃する for the 違反 on Tuesday.
"They (the ロシアのs) cannot do anything against the 軍の, but they can do it against 非軍事のs," said Yurii.
Before the war, Kherson had a 全住民 of about 300,000. When the city was 解放するd in November, only about 80,000 remained. A その上の 10,000 people left the city after it was retaken because of the constant ロシアの 爆撃する, 地元の 国会議員 Serhii Khlan told 無線で通信する Liberty in December.
In 早期に June, の直前に the dam 違反, 地域の Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin said one-third of the buildings in the 解放するd area were 損失d or destroyed. By that point, 地域の 当局 had received around 17,000 requests for 財政上の 援助 to 再構築する houses 損失d by the constant strikes.
After the Ukrainians retook Kherson, ロシアの 軍隊s 退却／保養地d across the river and have 繰り返して used their positions to 爆撃する the city.
While Ukrainian 当局 say nearly 2,000 people had been 避難させるd from flooded areas like Kherson on Thursday, others - like Yurii - 辞退する to 屈服する to the 圧力 and have stuck it out.
The Kopaev family -- mother Galyna, father Viktor, and daughter Angelina - spent time Wednesday 精査するing through waterlogged photos in their inundated apartment and 乾燥した，日照りのing out 着せる／賦与するs on the roof.
While they´ll spend the night with friends, they 計画（する） to wait out the man-made 災害 and stay の近くに to home. They´ve spent their entire lives in Kherson, and didn´t budge even when the 近隣 （機の）カム under repeated 爆撃する.
After all they´ve been through, Galyna said she just wouldn´t believe the waters would keep rising.
"I´m not crying. There´s no point in crying. Nothing will help us," she said, before 追加するing: "We´ll sur vive, we´ll 耐える."
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Associated 圧力（をかける） writer Jamey Keaten in Kyiv, ウクライナ共和国, 与える／捧げるd to this 報告（する）／憶測.
People ride by a boat through a flooded 近隣 in Kherson, ウクライナ共和国, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. 洪水s from a 崩壊（する）d dam kept rising in southern ウクライナ共和国 on Wednesday, 軍隊ing hundreds of people to 逃げる their homes in a major 緊急 操作／手術 that brought a 劇の new dimension to the war with Russia, now in its 16th month. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A volunteer 避難させるs a dog from the roof of a house of a flooded 近隣 in Kherson, ウクライナ共和国, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. 洪水s from a 崩壊（する）d dam kept rising in southern ウクライナ共和国 on Wednesday, 軍隊ing hundreds of people to 逃げる their homes in a major 緊急 操作／手術 that brought a 劇の new dimension to the war with Russia, now in its 16th month. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
