Until water recedes. How people survive in flooded part of Kherson Larysa Dmytrivna and Serhii Petrovych Zharkov have been married for 50 years, have two grown-up sons, grandchildren and a cat named Fedya. They have lived together all their lives in Kherson, survived the Russian occupation here together, and now they are stuck in their sixth-floor apartment building, waiting for the "high water" to subside. After the Russians blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station on 6 June, there was water near their house by lunchtime. Although people did not believe until the last moment that the disaster would reach them. 6 094 2 Society