The attacks in Kherson kept coming in, Alex Crawford and her Sky News team report - seemingly levelled at aid workers, as well as the scared and the desperate who they were caring for amid rising floodwaters.
The same evacuation point came under repeated attack after he left.
Frail old women were shepherded to shelter along walls as the ominous sounds of an artillery barrage rumbled on."They bombed my apartment before new year," she told us."We've been through it all. I'm not afraid of anything anymore."Ukrainian media said three people had died in the Kherson region as a result of flooding.
Reports from those who have managed to flee from there to the Ukrainian side told us the Russian troops appeared as shocked as they were at theBut when that didn't happen, the residents saw some of the Russian troops swimming to get away.A family of six, including two children and a kitten, wept with relief at being reunited with their relatives on the Ukrainian-held side of Kherson.
But a short time later, all those newly rescued, as well as those trying to help them, came under multiple and random attacks.The Ukrainian rescue operation is going on in the midst of artillery fire and shelling - and the threat of mines.
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