This was CNBC's live blog tracking developments on the war in Ukraine. See below for the latest updates. Overnight attacks by Russia on Ukraine damaged infrastructure and private homes, regional ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s government declared the situation in flood-hit areas in the Orenburg region a federal emergency on Sunday, with preparations for possible flooding underway in three other ...

A new species of gudgeon was discovered in the Ural River of western Russia. Turbanov IS, Bolotovskiy AA, Artaev ON, Gandlin AA, Levina MA, Vasil’eva ED, Levin BA (2025) Zoosystematics and Evolution ...

Russians in the city of Orsk gathered in a rare protest Monday, calling for compensation following the collapse of a dam and subsequent flooding in the Orenburg region near the border with Kazakhstan.

Orenburg Mayor Sergey Salmin said that the city’s South Ural water intake facility was not currently jeopardized and that the water treatment facilities were operating as usual ORENBURG, April 10.

MOSCOW — Floods caused by rising water levels in the Ural River broke a dam in a city near Russia's border with Kazakhstan, forcing some 2,000 people to evacuate, local authorities said. The dam broke ...

MOSCOWMOSCOW — Nearly 12,000 houses have been flooded in a Russian region bordering Kazakhstan as water levels in the Ural River keep rising and threatening more deluge, authorities said Thursday. The ...

Russian officials scrambled to help homeowners displaced by floods as water levels rose in the Ural River, authorities said Wednesday. Floods in the Orenburg region near Russia's border with ...