Prime Minister Ukraine Denis Shmygal said that the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station is fraught with an environmental disaster for the south of Ukraine, and calls for the world to react immediately.
“Tonight, Russian troops blew up the dam of the Kakhovsky hydroelectric power station. There is a threat of flooding of 80 settlements. The President of Ukraine called the National Security and Defense Council. Next, we will hold a meeting of the State Commission of the TEB and emergency situations. We are evacuating residents of the flooding areas. Currently, evacuation measures are being held from the microdistrict of the island in the island in the microdistrict Kherson. Evacuation trains are formed in Nikolaev. We evaluate the consequences of the environment and the threat of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. Due to the lack of access to it, such an assessment is complicated, ”Shmygal wrote in Telegram.
The prime minister emphasized that the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station is a “terrorist act from Russia, which is fully responsible for this.” “The destruction of the hydroelectric power station is fraught with an environmental disaster for the south of our state. The world must respond. Immediately. But not just words, but by actions. Russia must immediately leave the ZAES in order to avoid further disaster,” Shmygal said.
In turn, the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak said that “Russia blew up the dam of the Kakhovsky hydroelectric power station in order to prevent the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and intercept the information initiative.” “Another intentional crime in the framework of the Unified Global Crime of the Russian Federation in the 21st century – organizing a large -scale war in Europe. Russia should immediately be recognized as a terrorist country with all tough legal consequences,” he wrote on Twitter.
He added that one of the targets of the invaders is the inhibition of the “fair final of the war”, since the undermining of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station will be destroyed by many settlements, tremendous damage to the ecology and all living things are destroyed.
Demolity of the dam of the Kakhovsky hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region is probably the largest technogenic disaster in Europe over the past decades and a terrible war crime, said Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba.
“Russia destroyed the Kakhovsky dam, probably causing the largest technogenic disaster in Europe over the past decades and putting a civilian of civilians. This is a terrible war crime. The only way to stop Russia, the largest terrorist of the 21st century, to expel it from Ukraine” , – wrote Kuleba on Twitter.