“What really affects the scale of this tragedy is what we saw from the height of the helicopter and here we see, communicating with people. We see that the region has been flooded, more than 8 thousand buildings have been destroyed, about 10 thousand hectares of agricultural land have been flooded. Roads, dams, several old bridges were destroyed, ”Zelensky said on the air of the 1 + 1 television channel.
The head of state noted that for a complete elimination it will take some time.
According to him, normal life will return to the region in the coming days.
Flood damage in the Transcarpathian and Ivano-Frankivsk regions of Ukraine is tentatively estimated at $ 24 million. Nearly 300 settlements are flooded in western Ukraine, at least three people died.