The “head” of the occupation administration, Yanina Pavlenko, announced it on Facebook.

She encourages people to stay at home, to work remotely.

Hospitals and other social facilities in Yalta were not affected. In the village of Foros, Big Yalta, the supply of drinking water was turned off.

Currently, mobile brigades are eliminating the consequences of flooding in the city.

Source: Screenshot of the video Criminform

“All crossings and the apartment buildings on Kirov Street are flooded. The worst thing is that it floods the Krymenergo state zone, if it is flooded now, we will be left without electricity”, - Pavlenko said.

She also added that heavy rain would fall in the city all day.

“We will create structures, drain water from apartment buildings. There are already cases of flooding of apartment buildings in basements. The key thing, of course, is Krymenergo, where we have all the main life-supporting sources”, - said the mayor of Yalta.

Source: Screenshot of the video “Criminform”

The Russian news agency RIA Novosti has also published a video on its Telegram channel, where the Vodopadnaya river is raging. Another video recorded a car getting stuck during the flood.

In addition, according to their information, the “authorities” stopped the circulation of trolleybuses.

As reported to “RIA Novosti” Crimean Hydrometeorological Center, the water level in the rivers of the Crimea on Friday because of downpours may rise by 0.5-1.5 m, in some districts in the peninsula's south there is a threat of mudflows (powerful mudflow with stones): in Alushta, Sudak, and Feodosia.

The occupying Ministry of Emergency Situations of Crimea was informed that during a downpour in Yalta, there were three natural events. So, in the village's area of Opolznevoe on the Yuzhnoberezhnoye highway, mudflows descended. Now the movement there is carried out in a reverse mode.

Source: Facebook / Yanina Pavlenko

In Alupka, on Shayna Street, and Yalta on Vergasova Street, two households are flooded. They evacuated seven residents from there to a safe area. There was also a mudslide onto the roadway.

According to Yanina Pavlenko’s information, pedestrian crossings from Moskovskaya to Kievskaya Streets are completely flooded, in the vegetable market and “Spartak” - partially.

The “head” of Yalta also spoke about the difficult situation in the Lomonosov district - the river overflowed its banks. There is also a threat of flooding of residential buildings on Kirova Street.

Traffic stopped on routes 138 and 29A, as well as all trolleybuses, from 10:00 a.m., traffic on routes number 12, 18, 20, 107, 128, 133, 142, 29, 100, 8, 9, 1a, 106, 131 has been stopped.

In the village of Gaspra, in the morning, the transformer substation was flooded. As the water is drained, the substation works in normal mode.

In the village of Foros, because of a power outage in the Foros sanatorium, a pumping station was stopped. Vodokanal suspended the water supply to the village.

Source: Facebook / Yanina Pavlenko

What is known

• In occupied Crimea, unstable weather will improve early next week - a forecaster.
• As a result of heavy rains on June 17, Kerch was flooded, villages in the east of the occupied peninsula and the Belogorsk region. People are being evacuated. An emergency has been declared.
• The occupation Ministry of Emergency Situations of Crimea also announced a storm warning for June 18.