The hardest hit area is Ivano-Frankivsk on the border with Romania. (Source: 112.international)

On June 24, Ukrainian authorities said three people were killed and hundreds left their homes in the country's West after the worst flooding in a decade.

Ukraine's Interior Ministry confirmed floods from heavy rains earlier this week affected 200 villages, destroyed 5,000 houses and forced 800 people into evacuation.

The hardest hit area is Ivano-Frankivsk on the border with Romania.

Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said that in recent days rainfall has accounted for about 70% of the total monthly average rainfall in some areas.

Minister Avakov and the head of the emergency response unit went to the disaster area to inspect the situation. Floods destroyed more than 100 km of roads and about 90 bridges.

Authorities now transport food by helicopter to aid many villages split in flood waters.

This is the biggest flood since 2008, when 39 people died in western Ukraine.

Some experts argue that large-scale illegal deforestation activities in the Carpathian Mountains are a major cause of the soil being washed away and that serious flooding results in big stretches rains. /.