Water, food, boats, pumps, tents. The water is slowly sinking, but it’s all necessary. And the unsaved drowned must be brought out. Twenty thousand houses below, countless displaced people, animal carcasses contagious. Seven European countries are sending something, but “the need is gigantic,” says Odessa Bishop Stanislav Szyrokoradiuk, and it’s certainly not his shelter in the vicarage that can empty the disaster region. To intervene, the United Nations is calling for the bombing of civilians: Russian-besieged Kherson, which had already lost two out of three residents to the fire war and is now in danger of losing more to the storm; on Hola Pristan where they try to evacuate the Russians and rain down shells that even kill a pregnant woman.
