Ukraine dam flood: Thousands trapped

Mercy mission goes on after Russian block on evacuation

- CHRIS HUGHES

RESCUERS were yesterday battling to save thousands of Ukrainians including people stranded in attics and on rooftops in flood-hit Kherson.

One ingenious drone operator dropped off a badly needed bottle of water from an unmanned craft to a boy stranded with his family.

At least 20 people have died since Tuesday's bombing of the Nova Kakhovka dam, which Kyiv says the Kremlin orchestrated.

In Oleshky, on the Russian side of the flooded Dnipro River, locals said that Moscow's forces have been blocking their evacuation efforts.