Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky considered on Tuesday that “the world must respond” to the partial collapse of a dam at Kakhovka in southern Ukraine, which Kyiv attributes to Moscow and which Russia vehemently denies.
“The world must respond. Russia is waging a war against life, against nature, against civilization,” he said on the Telegram social network, accusing the Russians of blowing up the dam before making it “explode.”
“Russia detonated a bomb, causing massive damage to the environment,” Zelensky said during a video conference in front of the Bucharest Nine, an organization of nine Central and Eastern European countries that are members of NATO, according to a video shared. with their services.
“This is the largest human-caused environmental disaster in Europe in recent decades,” he continued, and when the partial collapse of the Kakhovka Dam raises concerns about the impact on the fauna and flora of this southern part of Ukraine.
“Russia is guilty of a brutal ecocide,” Zelensky assured, believing that Moscow’s forces “should be held fully accountable.”
According to the President of Ukraine, “it is physically impossible to blow up [a barragem] in one way or another from abroad, explosions, ”is the version put forward by Moscow, explaining the destruction that occurred at night.
Russia condemned Kyiv’s act of “deliberate sabotage”, saying one of Ukraine’s goals is to “deprive Crimea,” the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, of water.
“This is clearly a deliberate sabotage on the part of the Ukrainians, which was planned and carried out on orders from Kyiv,” said Kremlin (Russian President) spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Built on the Dnieper in the 1950s and captured at the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine in 2022, the Kakhovka Dam is critical to Crimea’s water supply.
According to Peskov, “this sabotage could have very serious consequences for tens of thousands of residents of the Kherson region,” as well as “environmental consequences.”
The armed conflict in Ukraine, which began with the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, plunged Europe into the most serious security crisis since World War II (1939-1945).
Information about the course of the war released by the two sides cannot be immediately verified by independent sources.
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Source: CM Jornal
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