Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting with a German newspaper bild He said he was extremely disappointed and shocked that the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had responded “too politely” to the collapse of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power plant and the subsequent flooding.
According to him, although the accident occurred yesterday, members of these organizations have not yet arrived at the scene.
“Neither the UN has responded, nor is there a Red Cross representative,” Zelensky said.
The Ukrainian leader explained that the ICRC and the UN should come to the aid of people first in disasters, but this time the organizations did not help and reacted “very diplomatically” to the event.
Stephane Dujarric, previously the representative of the UN Secretary-General declarationthat the employees of the establishment made an assessment of the situation at Kakhovskaya HEPP in Kherson after the collapse of the station and the water leak.
night of 6 June It was destroyed The upper part of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. As a result of uncontrolled water discharge, 36 settlements were flooded, evacuated More than 4,000 people and 15,000 households were flooded.