Inflatable ring found, child not found: search suspended due to risks to divers

In the Odesa region, rescuers have stopped the active phase of the search for a 10-year-old girl who was carried by the current into the open sea near the village of Sychavka.

This was reported by the spokesperson of the Main Department of the State Emergency Service in Odesa Oblast, Marina Martynenko, in a comment to “UP. Life”.

The child went missing on June 19, 2026, while resting with her great-grandmother on an unsanctioned beach. The girl was in the water on an inflatable ring when the current carried her away from the shore.

Shortly after the disappearance, representatives of the Naval Forces found the inflatable ring. After that, a large-scale search operation involving rescuers began.

For five days specialists inspected the water surface and the seabed, but the child’s whereabouts could not be established.

According to Marina Martynenko, the active phase of the search was stopped. She also noted that the operation was conducted on a dangerous, undeveloped beach, where conditions posed a threat even to the rescuers themselves.

Reminder: earlier we reported:

• Searching for a 10-year-old girl carried into the open sea in Odesa region for the third day
• Water claims lives: eight people have drowned in Mykolaiv region since the start of the year
• A young man swam to a friend and did not resurface: six people died in the water in Ukraine in one day
• The body of a young man was found 60 meters from the shore: a gruesome tragedy in Mykolaiv region
• At Namiv in Mykolaiv, divers found the body of a missing boy