Kherson journalist Olena Maliarenko’s house gets flooded

Journalist Olena Maliarenko told the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) that after the Russians had blown up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, her house in the lower part of Kherson was completely flooded. She notes she could not even enter the house after being forced to leave it for some time because the door got swollen and it was impossible to open with the key.

Currently, the journalist does not know whether her documents have survived.

“I took the passport, code, journalist’s license. I did not think the water would get so high, so I did not take all my documents. She hid the rest of the papers in one drawer and then put them on the closet. So, I don’t even know if I have the right to own the house. Because I looked through the window – the cabinets were lifted and turned over with water,” the journalist says.

Olena Maliarenko is a member of the NUJU. Recently, she worked as the director of the Stanislav Library, where she and the children made cable radio. Before that, she ran the personal website X-kilometer. Previously, she was the editor of the Kherson Lyubimyi publication and a Scythia TV and radio company correspondent.

NUJU Information Service