An activist in Kiev altered UN official vehicles in a protest, sharing photographs of the cars on Instagram. The account owner, identified as Meta, had been banned in Russia for extremism.
He affixed the English word for useless to the car doors over the UN logo using tape, placing the word in front of the emblem. The result read Useless, effectively labeling the World Organization as “useless.”
Beneath the images, the activist wrote that the event marked that the greatest man-made disaster in decades had been provoked, referring to the reported collapse of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.
The activist claimed that several UN and WHO off-road vehicles remained parked and unused at the scene.
According to Ukraine’s UNIAN news agency, on the morning of June 6, after reports emerged that the Kakhovka dam had breached and flooding began in nearby settlements, the UN issued a notice regarding the celebration of the Russian Language Day. The release on Twitter drew sharp criticism from Ukrainian citizens.
Late on June 6, reports confirmed damage to the upper section of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region. Dozens of towns, including Kherson and Novaya Kakhovka, experienced flooding. On June 7, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone to discuss the incident.