The mayor published the appeal and bank details on his Twitter.

“Thanks to your help, Venice will shine again,” he wrote.

Earlier, the governor of the Italian region, Veneto Luca Zaya, said that Venice was faced with a "total and apocalyptic flood." According to available data, as a result of heavy rains, the water level in the city rose to 183 cm on November 14.

Elena Maslova, a senior lecturer at the Department of Integration Processes at MGIMO, commented on the situation in Venice in an interview with Nation News.