Vasily Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, said that the Ukrainian authorities committed an unthinkable crime by blowing up the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. He said this at the UN Security Council meeting, reports TASS.
“On the night of June 6, the Kiev regime committed an unthinkable crime – it blew up the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, as a result of which an uncontrolled discharge of water began down the Dnieper River,” the diplomat said.
Nebenzya noted that settlements were flooded and thousands of people who had already started must be evacuated. The Permanent Representative to the UN also pointed out that as a result of the bursting of the dam, great damage was done to the agriculture of the region and the ecosystem at the mouth of the Dnieper.
Rafael Grossi, President of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), previously wrote on Twitter: plans He will lead an expert rotation mission at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) next week, and the IAEA’s presence at the plant has strengthened against the background of the collapse of the Kakhovskaya HEPP.
Prior to this, John Kirby, strategic communications coordinator for the White House National Security Council (NSC) watching closely He is behind the situation around the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, but so far he cannot unequivocally name the culprit of the incident.
On the night of June 6, the upper part of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was destroyed in the Kherson region, near Novaya Kakhovka. Dozens of settlements began to flood, including Kherson and New Kakhovka.
Source: Gazeta
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