KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russian forces on Tuesday of blowing up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Station after mining the ability, and stated Moscow have to be held to account for a “terrorist attack.”
A Ukrainian navy spokesperson stated Russia’s goal was to forestall Ukrainian troops crossing the Dnipro river to assault Russian occupying forces.
Russian-installed officers gave conflicting accounts, some blaming Ukrainian shelling, others saying the dam on the Dnipro had burst by itself.
“Tonight at 02:50, Russian terrorists carried out an internal detonation of the structures of the Kakhovskaya HPP [hydroelectric power plant],” Zelenskiy stated after an emergency assembly of senior officers.
He stated “a set of international and security measures was agreed upon [at the meeting] to hold Russia accountable for this terrorist attack.”
In a later video deal with to a summit of European nations within the Bucharest Nine group, Zelenskiy stated Russia had managed the dam and hydroelectric plant for over a 12 months.
“It is physically impossible to blow it up somehow from the outside—with shelling. It was mined. It was mined by the Russian occupiers and blown up by them,” he stated.
Zelenskiy, whose nation desires to affix NATO, urged members of the navy alliance assembly in Vilnius subsequent month to point out “there will be no weakness in Europe” and reveal to Russia that “terror is not a tool to influence NATO’s decisions.”
The Foreign Ministry known as for an pressing UN Security Council assembly and new sanctions on Russia, particularly on its missile trade and nuclear sector.
Serhiy Naev, commander of the joint forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, stated the dam’s destruction “should not prevent our advance in those directions where there may be spillage of water.” — Reuters
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