Vladimir Putin’s regime has been accused of leaving civilians to die on the occupied east bank of the Dnipro river, as surging floodwater caused by the destruction of a dam left thousands pleading for help on rooftops.

Denys Shmyhal, Ukraine’s prime minister, called on the Red Cross to step in to save tens of thousands of people who had been abandoned by local Russian authorities.

“The Russian occupiers don’t even make an effort to help these people, they have left them to perish,” he said in a video posted on Telegram.

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