Severe floods in Orenburg, Russia, have prompted the mayor to urge residents to evacuate immediately as water levels in the Ural River reached critical levels. Over 10,000 people have been evacuated in Orenburg, with 11,700 homes flooded. The flooding, described as the worst in 80 years, is affecting neighboring regions and Kazakhstan, where 100,000 people have been evacuated. High temperatures caused rapid snowmelt and heavy rains, leading to overflowing rivers. Around 120,000 people in Russia and Kazakhstan have been forced to evacuate due to the floods.
Nearly 12,000 houses are flooded in the Orenburg region along the Ural River in Russia, prompting evacuations and a state of emergency. The floods, caused by a dam burst, have affected 20,000 people with 3,600 houses at risk of flooding. The damage is estimated to exceed $428 million, and authorities in neighboring regions are also preparing for possible floods.
More than 13,000 residential buildings have been flooded in parts of Russia, with over 7,700 people evacuated in the Orenburg region alone. The floods have affected areas in western Siberia, the Volga region, and the Central Federal District. In Kazakhstan, 96,000 people were evacuated. The flooding was triggered by a combination of factors including snowmelt, rising temperatures, and heavy rains. Pope Francis expressed sympathy for the victims, and President Putin spoke with the President of Kazakhstan about the situation.
Over 4,000 people, including 1,019 children, have been evacuated in the Orenburg region of Russia near the Kazakhstan border after a dam on the Ural river burst due to heavy rainfall, impacting more than 2,500 homes. Thousands of residents were rescued via lifeboats and the flood has been described as one of the largest natural disasters in Kazakhstan in 80 years. The Russian government has opened a criminal investigation into the dam breach for negligence and violation of construction safety rules, attributing the incident to poor maintenance.
Heavy rainfall in the Russian city of Orsk has caused a dike to rupture, putting over 4,000 houses and 10,000 people at risk of flooding. The Orenburg region has seen over 1,800 homes flooded and more than 3,000 evacuations. Efforts are underway to repair the dike and evacuate residents to temporary accommodation centers. The flooding is a result of extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change.
Over 100 Russians in the city of Orsk, near the Ural River, sought assistance from President Vladimir Putin after the region experienced the worst flooding on record. The flooding led to widespread destruction and property damage, with residents expressing frustration over the inadequate help provided by local officials and the insufficient compensation offered. Despite some decrease in water levels, the situation remains challenging. Authorities declared an emergency in the Orenburg region and cautioned against uncoordinated mass meetings in response to the disaster.
Melting snow in Russia's Ural Mountains caused severe flooding, with over 10,400 homes flooded in 39 regions. The Ural River swelled, leading to a state of emergency in the Orenburg region. President Putin formed a special commission to address the floods in Orenburg, Kurgan, and Tyumen regions. Thousands were evacuated as rivers in the Urals, western Siberia, and Volga area reached dangerous levels, with Orenburg expecting the worst flooding in decades. The Kremlin warned of inevitable floods in western Siberia's Kurgan and Tyumen regions, necessitating evacuations and emergency measures.
Orenburg (Russian: Оренбу́рг, pronounced [ɐrʲɪnˈburk]), formerly known as Chkalov (1938–1957), is the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It lies in Eastern Europe, on the banks of the Ural River and is 1,478 kilometers (918 mi) southeast of Moscow.Orenburg is also very close to the border with Kazakhstan.
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that started in 2014. The invasion became the largest attack on a European country since World War II. It is estimated to have caused tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties and hundreds of thousands of military casualties. By June 2022, Russian troops occupied about 20% of Ukrainian territory. From a population of 41 million in January 2022, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. Extensive environmental damage caused by the war, widely described as an ecocide, contributed to food crises worldwide.Before the invasion, Russian troops massed near Ukraine's borders as Russian officials denied any plans to attack. Russian president Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" to support the Russian-backed breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, whose paramilitary forces had been fighting Ukraine in the Donbas conflict since 2014. Putin espoused irredentist views challenging Ukraine's right to exist, and falsely claimed that Ukraine was governed by neo-Nazis persecuting the Russian minority. He said his goal was to "demilitarize and denazify" Ukraine. Russian air strikes and a ground invasion were launched at a northern front from Belarus towards Kyiv, a southern front from Crimea, and an eastern front from the Donbas and towards Kharkiv. Ukraine enacted martial law, ordered a general mobilization and severed diplomatic relations with Russia.Russian troops retreated from the northern front by April 2022 after encountering logistical challenges and stiff Ukrainian resistance. On the southern and southeastern fronts, Russia captured Kherson in March and Mariupol in May after a destructive siege. Russia launched a renewed offensive in the Donbas and continued to bomb military and civilian targets far from the front line, including the energy grid through the winter. In late 2022, Ukraine launched successful counteroffensives in the south and east. Soon after, Russia announced the illegal annexation of four partly occupied regions. In November, Ukraine retook parts of Kherson Oblast, including the city of Kherson itself. In June 2023, Ukraine launched another counteroffensive in the southeast.The invasion was met with international condemnation. The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution condemning the invasion and demanding a full Russian withdrawal in March 2022. The International Court of Justice ordered Russia to suspend military operations and the Council of Europe expelled Russia. Many countries imposed sanctions on Russia and its ally Belarus, and provided humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine. The Baltic states all declared Russia a terrorist state. Protests occurred around the world, along with mass arrests of anti-war protesters in Russia, which also enacted a law enabling greater media censorship. Over 1,000 companies closed their operations in Russia and Belarus as a result of the invasion. The International Criminal Court (ICC) opened investigations into possible crimes against humanity, war crimes, abduction of children, and genocide. The court issued an arrest warrant for Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova in March 2023, alleging responsibility for the unlawful deportation of children.
Orenburg Oblast (Russian: Оренбургская область, romanized: Orenburgskaya oblast') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), mainly located in Eastern Europe. Its administrative center is the city of Orenburg. From 1938 to 1957, it bore the name Chkalov Oblast (Russian: Чка́ловская о́бласть) in honor of Valery Chkalov. Population: 1,862,767 (2021 Census).
Despite the disappearance of the once-mighty Aral Sea and the loss of large communities, small towns and villages along its shores show signs of life with new cafes, stores, and festivals. Residents engage in activities like playing soccer, making videos, and gathering for festivals amid reminders of the sea's former glory like old fishing nets and murals. Dust storms prompt temporary retreats, but families come together when they pass. The area is documented in an AP series covering climate change, restoration efforts, and the lives of those impacted in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
A major power plant near Kyiv, Trypillya, was entirely destroyed by Russian strikes, leaving three regions, including Kyiv, without electricity. More than 80 missiles and drones targeted energy infrastructure across Ukraine, with a significant portion bypassing air defences. The destruction of Trypillya added strain to Ukraine's power supply, with at least two other thermal power plants also suffering damage. The attacks on energy sites are part of Russia's goal to demilitarise Ukraine, according to President Putin.
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The Kremlins wartime campaign of forced nationalization has hit the Ural Mountains region of Chelyabinsk, a major industrial center, harder than most. Since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russian prosecutors have targeted 55 enterprises metals, chemicals, agribusiness and even a major car dealership for compulsory state takeover, according to figures from the RBC news website. But in recent weeks, metals plants, agribusinesses and food firms owned by Chelyabinsks top businessmen and politicians have been subject to nationalization suits brought in hasty proceedings in Russian courts. These assets are likely destined to be transferred to regime loyalists , analysts agreed. In late March, Russian prosecutors announced two nationalizations of Chelyabinsk businesses of Russias most famous pasta brand Makfa and the countrys largest winemaker the Ariant group on the same day.
The Ural (Russian: Урал, pronounced [ʊˈraɫ]), known before 1775 as the Yaik, is a river flowing through Russia and Kazakhstan in the continental border between Europe and Asia. It originates in the southern Ural Mountains and discharges into the Caspian Sea. At 2,428 kilometres (1,509 mi), it is the third-longest river in Europe after the Volga and the Danube, and the 18th-longest river in Asia. The Ural is conventionally considered part of the boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia.The Ural rises near Mount Kruglaya in the Ural Mountains, flows south parallel and west of the north-flowing Tobol, through Magnitogorsk, and around the southern end of the Urals, through Orsk where it turns west for about 300 kilometres (190 mi), to Orenburg, where the river Sakmara joins. From Orenburg it continues west, passing into Kazakhstan, then turning south again at Oral, and meandering through a broad flat plain until it reaches the Caspian a few miles below Atyrau, where it forms a fine 'digitate' (tree-like) delta.
Ural (Russian: Урал) is a geographical region located around the Ural Mountains, between the East European and West Siberian plains. It is considered a part of Eurasian Steppe, extending approximately from the North to the South; from the Arctic Ocean to the end of the Ural River near Orsk city. The border between Europe and Asia runs along the Eastern side of the Ural Mountains. Ural mostly lies within Russia but also includes a small part of Northwestern Kazakhstan. This is historical, not an official entity, with borders overlapping its Western Volga and Eastern Siberia neighboring regions. At some point in the past, parts of the currently existing Ural region were considered a gateway to Siberia, or even Siberia itself, and were combined with the Volga administrative the divisions. Today, there are two official namesake entities: the Ural Federal District and the Ural economic region. While the latter follows the historical borders, the former is a political product; the District omits Western Ural and includes Western Siberia instead.The historical center of the Ural is Cherdyn, which is now a small town in Perm Krai.Perm was an administrative center of the gubernia with the same name by 1797. Most of the territory of historical and modern Ural was included in Perm Gubernia. The administrative center of Urals was moved to Sverdlovsk (nowadays Yekaterinburg) after the Russian Revolution and Civil War. In the present, the Ural economic region does not have an administrative and informal capital, whereas Yekaterinburg is the administrative center of the Ural Federal District.
A massive missile and drone attack destroyed the Trypilska power plant, a major energy supplier for Kyiv, Cherkasy, and Zhytomyr regions, leaving it ablaze and causing significant damage. Russian President Putin justified the attacks as a response to Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries. The attacks resulted in over 200,000 people without power in Kharkiv, and impacted Ukraine's energy sector severely. The UK condemned the attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, emphasizing the lasting consequences for civilians. This is part of Russia's renewed campaign targeting Ukrainian energy facilities, causing widespread destruction and disruptions.
The Orenburg Cossack Host (Russian: Оренбургское казачье войско) was a part of the Cossack population in pre-revolutionary Russia, located in the Orenburg province (today's Orenburg Oblast, part of the Chelyabinsk Oblast and Bashkortostan).
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