Several people were killed after Russian forces shelled three small boats taking elderly residents to safety after the destructive flooding in southern Ukraine
"Today, terrorists opened fire on three boats that were used to rescue 21 people from the flooded eastern bank," Mr Prokudin said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the incident and repeated accusations that Russia was responsible for the breach of the dam.Russian forces, he said, were now shelling residents seeking evacuation from submerged areas. Pictures posted on a Ukrainian armed forces Telegram channel showed paramedics taking evacuees out of small boats and rushing through knee-deep water to take them to safety - some on stretchers, some in rescuers' arms.
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