Russia shelling flood victims as they flee

School among the places bombed

- MATTHEW YOUNG and CHRIS HUGHES

• 5 Number of people said to have died in city of Nova Kakhovka
• 3 Points Ukraine attacked in Zaporizhzhia with NATO-supplied tanks

EVACUATION hubs including a school where displaced Ukrainian flood victims were sheltering are said to have been bombed by Russia.

Moscow’s forces reportedly shelled the building in the Ukrainian-held part of Kherson where people fleeing the Dnipro River’s rising waters were gathered.

It came just after Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky visited a crossing point where people were being evacuated from flooded areas.

He called for “a clear and quick global response” to Tuesday’s bombing of the Nova Kakhovka dam, which Kyiv and its allies say the Kremlin orchestrated.

At least five people have died, many are homeless and tens of thousands are without drinking water after the dam was destroyed.

Yevhen Rischuk, the Ukrainian mayor-in-exile of the occupied town of Oleshky, said of the evacuation point attacks: “[Russian forces] have just fired at a school where people from flooded homes were gathering.”