![]() The small town of Oleshky, on the Russian-controlled bank of the Dnipro, was almost completely flooded, a Russian-appointed regional official said on Tuesday. "More and more water is coming every hour. "If you try to go somewhere they don't allow, they immediately point their machine guns at you," she said. Yevheniya, a female resident, said the water was up to the knees of the Russian soldiers walking the main street in high rubber boots. We're still allowed to go to the store, but we don't know what orders will be given next." "If you come a metre closer than allowed, they immediately start yelling obscenities. ![]() "They say they are ready to shoot without warning," one man named Hlib said, describing encounters with Russian troops.Ī local resident walks on a flooded street in Kherson. Residents who could reached by telephone there told Reuters that some people had decided to stay despite being ordered out by occupying Russians. On the Russian-controlled bank of the Dnipro, the Moscow-installed mayor of Nova Kakhovka said water levels had risen to 11 metres. Ukrainian police released a video of an officer carrying an elderly woman to safety and others rescuing dogs in villages being evacuated as the waters rose.Īnd Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko accused Russia of shelling areas from where people were being evacuated, saying two police officers had been wounded. ![]() Lidia Zubova, 67, who was waiting for a train out of the city after abandoning her inundated village of Antonivka, told Reuters: "Our local school and stadium downtown were flooded … The road was completely flooded, our bus got stuck." Some residents have decided to stay despite being ordered out by occupying Russians. ![]()
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