THE Russia today called on the international community to “condemn» Kiev after the partial destruction of the Kahovka hydroelectric dam, in the south Ukraine, a disaster for which one camp blames the other. “We call on the international community to condemn the criminal actions of the Ukrainian authorities, which are increasingly inhumane and pose a serious threat to regional and global security,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
THE Moscow intends to raise the matter before the UN Security Council, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and “other international organizations“, he added.
The partial destruction of this dam, located between the positions of the two warring sides on the Dnieper River, caused floods that affected both the Kiev-controlled areas and those occupied by Russian troops.
Moscow pointed to “massive damage to the region’s agriculture and the ecosystem at the mouth of the Dnieper,” as well as water supply problems for Crimea, the peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014.
The Russian ministry accused Kiev of “planning in advance and deliberately for military purposes” the destruction of the dam, according to the Athens News Agency. “Kyiv not only subjected the Kakhovka hydroelectric station to massive bombing, but deliberately raised the water level of the Kakhovka reservoir to a critical level by opening the floodgates of the Dnipropetrovsk hydroelectric station,” he said.
Ukraine, for its part, accuses Russian forces of blowing up the dam to prevent any attack on the region. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also called today “the world to react» for the destruction of the dam.
Source: News Beast
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