Thousands evacuated from Russia's Ural region after a dam collapsed. Water flooded about 6,000 homes in this area located near the border with Kazakhstan.
The mayor of Orenburg, Sergei Salmin, said, "The water level of the Ural River will continue to rise," warning that it may "reach a critical level" Kazakhstan, which borders Russia, was also affected by floods caused by melting snow. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev described it as “probably the largest in terms of size and consequences in the past 80 years”