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Russian dam bursts forcing thousands to evacuate in flood-hit southern region.

As of Saturday morning, the level of the Ural river was nearly double the level the dam was designed to handle, according to regional authorities.

The dam failure occurred because the hydraulic structure was not properly maintained, and a criminal investigation has been opened, the regional prosecutor’s office said.

Earlier, an emergency was declared across the entire Orenburg region after levels in the Ural River rose dangerously because of melting ice.

The dam was protecting the city from the waters of the Ural river. By Saturday morning, the water had reached several districts of the city, flooding nearly 2,400 residential buildings, TASS reported.

“A state of emergency is in effect in Orenburg,” the head of the Orenburg region Sergey Salmin said in a Telegram post Saturday.

“This situation leaves us no choice; overnight the [river] level may reach a critical level. I demand that everyone immediately leave their houses in the flood zone.”

Those who refuse to leave the danger zone voluntarily will be evacuated forcibly, with the participation of police officers,” he added.

Orsk, a city of 230,000, lies near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan.

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev described the flooding as one of Kazakhstan’s largest natural disasters in 80 years, according to Reuters.

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Tonight, Russian enemy aircraft dropped a guided aerial bomb on a residential area of ​​Kupyansk.

As a result of the impact, the 4-story residential building was destroyed. A woman died under the rubble in an apartment on the fourth floor of a high-rise building.

In order to remove the body of the deceased, units of the State Emergency Service consisting of two departments and 10 rescuers, as well as a crane of a local utility company, were involved.

At 03:30 emergency and rescue operations were completed.

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Gonna go in and fix dinner.
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12-year-old Yana is preparing to run the Boston Marathon this year to raise money for a sports prosthesis for a soldier who lost his leg.

Yana lost both of her legs as a result of a Russian cluster munition attack on the train station in Kramatorsk in April 2022.

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Finland closes border with Russia indefinitely.

The Finnish government has extended "until further notice" the closure of the checkpoint on the border with Russia, reports the local publication Yle.

The proposal was made by the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs, explaining that Russia continues to use "directed migration" against Finland. Previously, the closure of the border was extended each time for two months. The last such deadline was supposed to expire on April 14. According to the newspaper, the decision to close the border is valid indefinitely "or as long as it is deemed necessary."

Finland closed its border with Russia in November 2023 amid a sharp increase in the number of migrants who tried to enter Europe from Putinistan. Last fall, migrants from the Middle East stormed the Russian-Finnish border.

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🚧The Russians are laying a track to Crimea: Ukrainian intelligence assessed the prospects for their efforts

Representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Andrey Yusov assured that intelligence officers are monitoring this and will “adjust” the plans of the invaders.

According to him, the construction of the railway to Crimea is already at a “serious stage,” but “the plans are different from life.”

“In a few months we can see the result (of the construction of this railway). But there is nothing new here. Ukraine sees this and is preparing accordingly. We are talking exclusively about military supplies. This is a single track. They plan that way. But plans are different from life and, of course , the Ukrainian security and defense forces will adjust these plans... We will hear, we will see,”
Yusov commented.

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Pope Francis remembered a Ukrainian soldier from Bakhmut who died at the front of Avdiivka.
At his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square in Rome he was holding a rosary and a New Testament wrapped in camouflage colors in his hands, personal belongings of the young man.

“This boy's name was Oleksandr: 23 years old. Oleksandr read the New Testament and the Psalms, and in the book of Psalms he had underlined Psalm 129: 'Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice'. And this 23-year-old boy died in the war. He lost the life that he would have had before him,”
Francis said. The Pope called on the faithful to observe a minute's silence in memory of "this boy and all others who, like him, died in this insane war."

The fallen soldier's belongings were presented to the Pope by the nun Lucía Caram, a contemplative Dominican of Argentine origin, on March 13, the 11th anniversary of the start of his pontificate. Since the beginning of the war she has been involved in Ukraine.

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Kharkiv rescuers killed by Russia today🕯️

As a result of the Russian attack on Kharkiv during the night of April 2, four people were killed, and at least 20 were injured.

📷: Ihor Klymenko / Telegram

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One lucky Russian bastard

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