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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Flood waters were rising in two cities in Russia's Ural mountains on Sunday after Europe's third-longest river burst through a dam, flooding at least 10,000 homes and forcing ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has evacuated around 2,000 people from their homes in the Russian city of Orsk, Russian officials said on Saturday, a day after rising waters in the Ural river flooded ...
Russia’s government has declared the situation in flood-hit areas in the Orenburg region a federal emergency, state media reported. The floods, caused by rising water levels in the Ural River ...
However, the Russian health ministry later clarified that the fatalities had "nothing to do with the floods". [20] On 17 April, the Russian investigative news outlet iStories reported that six people had died from the floods in Orsk while another died in Orenburg, citing relatives of the victims who also accused authorities of withholding the ...
The floods, caused by rising water levels in the Ural River, forced over 4,000 people, including 885 children, to evacuate in the Orenburg region, the regional government said Sunday. Tass said ...
On 3–6 May, satellite photos indicated that Russian forces were building a small dam on Tokmachka river, which caused flooding upstream in the path of an expected Ukrainian offensive. [36] Some called this part of a Russian pattern of using flooding to thwart the Ukrainian counteroffensive. [37] [38]
Several major river systems have seen their water levels rise, including the Ural River, which flows through Russia and Kazakhstan before entering the Caspian Sea, and the Tobol and Ishim Rivers, both of which are tributaries of the Irtysh River. [9] In Tyumen Oblast, authorities warned that flooding along the Tobol River would peak in May. [12]
ORSK, Russia (Reuters) -Russia and Kazakhstan ordered more than 100,000 people to evacuate after swiftly melting snow swelled mighty rivers beyond bursting point in the worst flooding in the area ...