KYIV, June 11 (Reuters) - Russian forces shelled three small boats taking elderly residents to safety from inundated areas of southern Ukraine, killing three people and wounding 10, the regional governor said on Sunday.
Kherson region's Ukrainian-appointed governor, Oleksander Prokudin said Russian forces were "deliberately trying to disrupt rescue efforts".
"Today, terrorists opened fire on three boats that were used to rescue 21 people from the flooded (eastern) bank," Prokudin said on Ukrainian television.
Russian forces, he said, were now shelling residents seeking evacuation from submerged areas.
"(They have) cast people deliberately into flooded towns and villages and then shell boats used to try to evacuate them," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.
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Oleksander Prokudin, Prokudin, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Zelenskiy, Zelenskiy's, Andriy Yermak, Yermak, Tom Balmforth, Pavel Polityuk, Ron Popeski, Andrew Cawthorne, Ros Russell, Marguerita Choy
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