Portraits of Russian service members killed in Russia-Ukraine conflict and the symbol “Z” are projected onto the State Council building in Simferopol, Crimea on April 8, 2024. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)





Pigeons walk in front of the Russian Foreign Ministry building (C) in Moscow on April 8, 2024. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Moscow's key diplomatic and economic partner China on April 8-9, his Ministry said in a statement. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





Rescuers ride a boat in a flooded street of Orsk, Russia on April 9, 2024. (Photo by Reuters TV)





A view shows a sign reading “I love Orsk” near a monument to aviators in a flooded street of Orsk, Russia on April 9, 2024, in this still image taken from video. (Photo by Reuters TV)





People row on inflatable boats amid flooding in the city of Orenburg, Russia on April 10, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A dog sits in an inflatable boat towed by Russian Emergencies Ministry rescuers in a flooded street in Orenburg, Russia on April 10, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Local resident Taisia is evacuated amid flooding in the city of Orenburg, Russia on April 10, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A woman walks near her house in a flooded area in Orenburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Russian officials are scrambling to help homeowners displaced by floods, as water levels have risen in the Ural River. The floods in the Orenburg region near Russia's border with Kazakhstan sparked the evacuation of thousands of people following the collapse of a dam on Saturday. (Photo by AP Photo)





A man tows an inflatable boat along a flooded street in in the settlement of Ivanovskoye, Orenburg region, Russia on April 10, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Local resident Yevgenia Perednya pets her dog, as she together with her family escapes the floods, on the roof of unfinished house in the settlement of Ivanovskoye, Orenburg region, Russia on April 10, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Residents and Russian Emergencies Ministry rescuers ride boats in a flooded street in Orenburg, Russia on April 10, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A man holds his cat as he pulls a boat with emergency workers in a flooded area in Orenburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Russian officials are scrambling to help homeowners displaced by floods, as water levels have risen in the Ural River. The floods in the Orenburg region near Russia's border with Kazakhstan sparked the evacuation of thousands of people following the collapse of a dam on Saturday. (Photo by AP Photo)





Muslims attend the morning prayers of Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, near the Cathedral Mosque in Moscow, Russia on April 10, 2024. (Photo by Yulia Morozova/Reuters)





Muslims prepare for the morning prayers of Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, near the Cathedral Mosque in Moscow, Russia on April 10, 2024. (Photo by Yulia Morozova/Reuters)





This handout picture released by the Russian Roscosmos space agency on April 11, 2024 shows a heavy-class Angara-A5 rocket blasting off from the launch pad of the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region. (Photo by Handout/Roscosmos via AFP Photo)





A drone view shows a flooded residential area in the settlement of Zarechnoye, Orenburg region, Russia, on April 11, 2024. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A man looks through a window inside the space capsule of Soyuz MS-2 spaceship, which was in space in 2016 and installed next to the Museum of Cosmonautics, on the eve of Cosmonautics Day, the 63rd anniversary of Russia's Yuri Gagarin's first manned flight into space, in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Thursday, April 11, 2024. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A general view shows a flooded area during sunset in Orenburg, Russia on April 11, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





People row a boat through a flooded residential area in Orenburg, Russia, on April 12, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Local resident Alexander Timofeyevich (L) sails with a neighbour on an inflatable boat through the flooded yard of his house to feed the dogs stranded on the roof, in Orenburg, Russia on April 12, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)