When a cyclone drenched Crimea in rainfall last month, rivers burst their banks and thousands of people in the Russia-annexed peninsula had to be evacuated from the floods.
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This handout picture released by the Russian Defence Ministry on April 22, 2021 shows Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu (C) and Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov (R) looking through binoculars as the watch the Russian military drills at the Opuk training ground not far from the town of Kerch, on the Kerch Peninsula in the east of the Crimea.