Latvia allocates EUR 430,000 to tackle aftermath of Kakhovka dam collapse

The Government of Latvia has decided to allocate about EUR 430,000 as humanitarian aid to Ukraine to help eliminate the consequences of the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant.

That's according to the news site LSM, Ukrinform reports.

Funding for humanitarian aid will be allocated from the state contingency budget. The total estimated costs for the recovery of material resources are expected to be EUR 433,119 next year, while transport costs are provisionally estimated at EUR 20,000 this year.

Electricity generators, compressors, pumping stations, life jackets, sleeping bags, pipes, motor pumps, diving gloves, boots, quad bikes, and other equipment are to be sent to Ukraine.

Humanitarian aid will be granted from the State Fire and Rescue Service, while blankets and rubber boots will be provided from the state's material reserves.

On June 9, the Latvian government agreed to allocate EUR 200,000 to aid Ukraine to address the ecological and humanitarian crisis.

Early on June 6, the Russian army blew up the dam of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant. In the Kherson region, rescue operations and measures to evacuate the population from flooded areas are underway. The situation is particularly difficult in the temporarily occupied territories.

Ukrhydroenergo, Ukraine's hydropower generating company, said that the plant had been destroyed and cannot be restored.

Photo: Ukraine's State Emergency Service