Andrei Belousov, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Office in Geneva, said that the world organization did not respond to Russia’s warnings in October 2022 about the dangers associated with attacks on Ukraine’s Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. He said this at the UN Conference on Disarmament, reports DEA News.
The diplomat noted that on October 21, 2022, the Permanent Mission of Russia in New York distributed a letter expressing serious concern about the bombing of the power plant by the Ukrainian military and the possible disastrous consequences of such actions.
According to Belousov, the letter urged the UN leadership to take measures to prevent Ukrainian provocations, but “there was no appropriate response to this call.”
The Russian representative also noted that the indirect confirmation that the explosion at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power plant was committed by Ukraine, Kiev accuses Russia of it, as well as the statements of the Western representatives about the “hand of Moscow” were “hurried”.
Earlier, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) announced their readiness. help Ukraine after the collapse of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region.
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.
Russia and Ukraine blame each other in the breaking of the dam. There is also a version that the accident occurred due to “old damage”. The Ukrhidroenergo company stated that the station was completely destroyed and cannot be restored.