The Kremlin has warned that water is still rising and more regions could face flooding risks in 'difficult days' ahead.
More than 100,000 people have been evacuated in parts of Russia and Kazakhstan as the region faces the worst flooding in decades. A deluge of melting snow has triggered widespread flooding in Siberia, the Ural Mountains and areas of Kazakhstan near rivers such as the Ural and Tobol in recent days. Officials said earlier this week that water levels had swollen by metres within a matter of hours.
'The difficult days are still ahead for the Kurgan and Tyumen regions,' Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. 'There is a lot of water coming,' he added. The worst-hit areas in Kazakhstan are Atyrau, Aktobe, Akmola, Kostanai, Eastern Kazakhstan, Northern Kazakhstan and Pavlodar regions, most of which border Russia and are crossed by rivers originating in Russia such as the Ural and the Tobol. The worst-hit areas in Russia are just to the south of the Ural Mountains.
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