Trapped villagers saved from roofs in flooded south Ukraine as more await help
Friends and family posted frantic appeals in online chatrooms with names, photos and GPS locations of residents, including children and many elderly people, who were still waiting to be picked up
Mykola stands next to a police boat on a flooded island, which locals and officials say is caused by Russia's chaotic control of the Kakhovka dam downstream, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, May 20, 2023.(photo credit: BERNADETT SZABO / REUTERS)ByREUTERS