About 4,000 people already evacuated from flooded areas - president

A rescue operation is underway in southern Ukraine, with about 4,000 people already evacuated from flooded areas.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this in his daily address to Ukrainians, Ukrinform reports.

"We are also continuing our rescue operation in the south of Ukraine, and we have managed to evacuate about 4,000 people," Zelensky said.

He said that dozens of towns and villages remain flooded, with the worst situation still in the temporarily occupied part of Kherson region, from where volunteers are helping to evacuate Ukrainians under enemy fire.

"Russian terrorists continue to shell evacuation routes, evacuation points, boats that take people away... Today, as a result of one of these attacks, three people were killed, my condolences to their families and friends... Ten more people were injured, including two police officers. It was an evacuation from Kardashynka, a village on the left bank of Kherson region," Zelensky said.

Earlier reports said that 112 people, including 54 women and 7 children, had been evacuated from the temporarily occupied left bank of the Kherson region. On June 11, Russian forces shelled three boats used to evacuate civilians from flooded areas on the left (east) bank of the Dnipro River. Three people were killed and 23 injured by shelling.