Real-time updates on the Russia-Ukraine war from April 10, 2024 | Wilnesh News

Orenburg Mayor Sergei Salmin said on the Rossiya-24 TV channel on Wednesday that the water level of the Ural River in the city had risen to 996 centimeters. The city of Orenburg is the center of severe flooding in southern Russia.

The water level was 66 centimeters above the danger level and higher than readings measured earlier this morning, TASS reported.

“At 12 o’clock local time (10:00 a.m. Moscow time) the water level is still rising, and now we have exceeded all the highest marks. Our danger value is 930 centimeters. Currently we have recorded 996 centimeters,” TASS noted, Salmin That’s what he said.

He said 1,910 homes were currently flooded and 865 people had been evacuated from the city. Salmin said evacuations were continuing.

— Holly Elliot

The southern Russian city of Taganrog was hit by a drone attack on Wednesday, Russian officials said.

“Attention! Drone attack. If possible, go to a lower floor, to the basement. Find a place without windows and sit on the floor,” city chief Andrei Fateyev explain, said on telegram Wednesday.

Taganrog, located in Russia’s southern Rostov region, is one of a number of Russian towns that have been hit by drone attacks in recent months. Rostov Governor Vasily Golubev, described the latest alleged attack as “massive”.

Russia accuses Ukraine of frequent attacks on its territory, but Kyiv rarely comments on such attacks. Officials in Taganrog said the city had been hit by drones and missiles before. Kyiv has yet to comment on the latest accusations.

— Holly Elliot

Rapid melting of snow in the Ural Mountains has caused the worst flooding in Russia’s southern city of Orenburg in decades, with more than 300 houses submerged.

Authorities warned overnight of a dangerous situation in Orenburg and ordered the evacuation of more than 100,000 people on Wednesday night.

The Ural River, Europe’s third-longest river, rose 20 inches late Tuesday above its critical level of 30 feet. The situation in the river, which flows through Russia and Kazakhstan and flows into the Caspian Sea, is expected to worsen on Thursday.

— Elliot Smith

Officials at the Russian-controlled Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine accused Kiev of another drone attack on Tuesday, claiming a drone landed on the roof of its training center.

Ukraine has denied knowledge of a series of drone attacks on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in recent days, which prompted the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to issue a nuclear security alert.

Moscow has repeatedly accused Ukraine of being behind the attack, but a spokesman for Ukraine’s military intelligence service said on state television on Tuesday that Ukraine “did not take any military action or provocation against nuclear facilities,” Reuters reported.

Ukrainian intelligence officials have also accused Russia of using the seized nuclear facilities as a “propaganda” platform.

— Elliot Smith

Ukraine shot down 14 of the 17 Shahed drones launched by Russia towards the Black Sea port of Odessa overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force said on the Telegram messaging app.

Lieutenant General Mykola Oreshuk, commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, said that Ukrainian air defense forces also destroyed two Kh-59 guided air missiles flying towards Odessa. CNBC could not immediately verify the claims.

— Elliot Smith

The United Nations human rights agency stated in a report that the number of civilian casualties in Ukraine increased by 20% in March this year compared with February. Report Tuesday.

The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine found that at least 604 civilians were killed or injured this month. Among them were at least 57 children, double the number from last month, the report added.

“The increase in civilian casualties in March was mainly due to the Russian armed forces’ use of missiles and loitering munitions in attacks across Ukraine, as well as an increase in aerial bombardments near the front lines,” the report said.

——Sophie Kidlin

A spokesperson for the Russian Embassy in Switzerland confirmed to CNBC that Russia has not been invited to participate in the Ukraine summit planned to be held in Switzerland.

“The Swiss side has not sent an invitation to Russia to participate in this meeting. At the same time, our position is well known. Even if we received an invitation to participate in such an event, the Russian side would not accept it,” press secretary Vladimir Ho Embassy Hlov said.

This is consistent with previous remarks by a Russian spokesman, who said that Russia will not participate in the proposed summit and that without Moscow’s participation, the summit is destined to fail.

Khokhlov added: “The idea of ​​a ‘peace conference’ proposed by the organizers is inappropriate for us, as it is just another variant of promoting an unworkable ‘peace solution’ that does not take into account Russia’s Worry.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his allies have been making plans to hold a Ukraine summit in Switzerland, where the leaders will discuss potential solutions to the conflict. The talks could include Zelensky’s ten-point peace package.

Zelensky said over the weekend that a date for the summit could be agreed in the coming days or weeks and that 80 to 100 countries would participate, Reuters reported.

——Sophie Kidlin

A woman and a child were killed in Ukrainian shelling in the Russian village of Klimovo, local governor Aleksandr Bogomaz said in a statement. postal Published on Telegram on Tuesday and translated by CNBC via Google.

He added that three other civilians were injured in the attack and were receiving medical attention, several vehicles were injured and a house was set on fire. Klimovo is located in western Russia, close to the borders of Ukraine and Belarus.

CNBC could not independently verify the report.

——Sophie Kidlin

Russia and Kazakhstan ordered the evacuation of more than 100,000 people as snow melted rapidly, causing rivers to swell, causing the region’s worst flooding in at least 70 years.

Torrents of meltwater inundated dozens of settlements in the Ural Mountains, Siberia and Kazakhstan near rivers such as the Ural and Tobol rivers, with local officials saying water levels rose several meters in a matter of hours to their highest ever levels .

The Ural River, Europe’s third-largest river that flows through Russia and Kazakhstan into the Caspian Sea, burst its banks on Friday and flooded the city of Orsk, south of the Ural Mountains.

Water levels are rising downstream in Orenburg, a city of about 550,000 people.

An alarm was sounded in Kurgan, a city along the Tobol River, a tributary of the Irtysh River, warning people to evacuate immediately. A state of emergency was also declared in Tyumen, the main oil-producing area in Western Siberia, the world’s largest oil and gas basin.

“Tough days are ahead for the Kurgan and Tyumen regions,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “There’s a lot of water coming.”

— Reuters