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Aid workers have backed up claims made by Ukraine鈥檚 President Volodymyr Zelensky that Russian forces are shooting at the Ukrainian rescuers trying to reach flooded areas in the occupied Kherson region.

Rescuers are trying to evacuate thousands of people in the flood zone of the Russian-occupied Nova Kakhovka dam and hydro-electric power plant, which collapsed sending torrents of water gushing down the Dnipro River.

Earlier, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said it was Ukraine firing on rescue workers.

Richard Woodruff is from Front Line Kitchen, which supplies food, medicine and vehicles to people in need in Ukraine. He spoke to the 大象传媒's Victoria Uwonkunda.

(Picture: A Ukrainian woman being evacuated after the explosion at the Kakhovka hydropower plant that flooded houses and streets in Kherson, Credit: Muhammed Enes Yildirim / Getty Images.)