Ukraine has accused Russia of extracting a hydroelectric dam near Kherson in the south of the country with the aim of causing “disasterin this period, which he began to evacuate in the conditions of the advance of troops from Kiev. “Russia is consciously preparing the ground for a large-scale disaster in southern UkraineOn this Thursday, Vladimir Zelensky condemned in absentia at the Council of the European Union.
According to him, the Russian forcesmined the dam and units of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant“, one of the largest infrastructures of this type in Ukraine. If the dam bursts,More than 80 settlements, including Kherson, will be in the flash flood zone“, he worried.
“Mass Deportation”.
“It could destroy the water supply for much of southern Ukraineand affect the cooling of reactors at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which draws its water from an 18 million cubic meter artificial lake, Vladimir Zelensky added. Russia’s goal is to stop the advance of Ukrainian troops in the region and protect Russian forces, one of the advisers to the president, Mykhailo Podoliak, said on Twitter.
The Russian administration of the Kherson region has assured that the evacuation of the civilian population has begun, and 15,000 people were evacuated from this territory annexed to Moscow on Thursday. He plans to move some50,000 to 60,000in a few days on the other bank of the Dnieper. General Sergey Surovikin, who was recently appointed head of Russian operations in Ukraine, admitted on Tuesday that the situation there “very difficult“. For the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Alexey Danilov, we are witnessing.Preparation of the mass deportation of the population of Ukraine“Russia”in order to change the ethnic composition of the occupied territories“.
Source: Le Figaro
