Moscow (AFP) April 12, 2024

Russian Orthodox priests have flown over a swelling river in a Soviet-era plane with an icon, praying for unprecedented floods to recede.

Rising rivers in Russia’s southern Urals and western Siberia, as well as Kazakhstan, have flooded towns and cities and forced thousands to evacuate.

In the Kurgan region, priests boarded a small AN-2 plane with an icon of the “Mother of God Chimeyevs
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