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Will the flood water reach Putin's office leh?

Just a few hundred kilometres over the border, Russia's Kurgan, a region of 800,000 people at the confluence of the Ural mountains and Siberia, was grappling with flooding and rising water levels in the Tobol River, another tributary of the Irtysh.

Water levels rose to 6.31 metres (over 20 ft) or about almost reaching over 3rd floor of their BTO flat, many can be flooded) in the main city, Kurgan. Governor Vadim Shumkov said the main mass of water was 10 km away from the city.

"The volume of water is colossal, in addition to the waters of the Tobol itself and melt water pouring into it, there is 1.3 billion cubic metres of water coming from Kazakhstan, which... is twice as much as in 1994 (when Kurgan was flooded for a month)."

"Fellow countrymen, leave the flooded areas immediately."