“On the night of June 6, the Kiev regime committed an unthinkable crime by blowing up the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, resulting in an uncontrolled discharge of water into the Dnieper River,” the Russian ambassador to the UN denounced. Vasily Nebenzia.
The diplomat accused the Ukrainian authorities of already considering an attack on this infrastructure last year, located in an area under the control of Russian troopsand regretted that the Security Council did nothing despite his country’s warnings in this regard.
Indeed, Moscow sent a letter to the UN last October denouncing “plans of the regime in Kiev to destroy the dam” and in particular the possibility of “throwing sea mines downstream of the Dnieper River or mass missile attack”.
Nebenzia defended the claim that Ukraine ultimately chose to destroy the facility because of the West’s unconditional support and sense of “impunity” and believed that the action was a “war crime“.
According to the Russian ambassador, this “sabotage” would have two purposes: to attract attention to facilitate the regrouping of Ukrainian troops at a time when – he said – their counter-offensive is not advancing and to provoke maximum humanitarian damage“to the population.
Source: El heraldo
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