(EFE).- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has described the destruction of a large dam on the Dnieper River on his way through Kherson province in southern Ukraine as a “bomb of massive environmental destruction,” he confirmed that Kiev has already denounced Russia for it before international justice.
“The deliberate destruction of the dam and other infrastructure of the (New Kakhovka) hydroelectric power station by the Russian occupiers is an environmental bomb of mass destruction,” Zelensky said in his address to the nation last night.
In his daily address to his citizens, the Ukrainian head of state also reported that “the (Ukrainian) attorney general has already asked the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to involve international justice in the investigation of the explosion in The prey”.
At least seven people are missing in the occupied Ukrainian city of New Kakhovka, the Russian-imposed mayor of the town, Vladimir Leontiev, told TASS.
According to the emergency response center, the level has dropped by 35 centimeters
He explained that the water levels are beginning to drop slightly in the city after registering up to 12 meters on Tuesday in some places. According to the emergency response center, the level has dropped by 35 centimeters. More than 900 people had to be evacuated Tuesday from flooded areas in Russian-controlled territories on the left bank of the Dnieper river, according to Leontiev.
On the right bank, controlled by Ukraine, 1,328 citizens were evacuated on Tuesday, according to the head of the Kherson Regional State Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin. In the territories occupied by Russian troops, the town of Korsunka was completely submerged due to the uncontrolled discharge of water from the Kakhovka reservoir.
According to the president of the Government of the Kherson Administration imposed by Russia, Andrei Alekseenko, after also being completely flooded the day before Oleshki, now the situation is also critical in the town of Hola Prostan.
Regarding the consequences of the disaster, which has caused the flooding of dozens of towns and is forcing the evacuation of thousands of people from the area, Zelenski highlighted the problems of drinking water supply that the overflow could cause for several regions of the south and southeast. from Ukraine.
The Ukrainian president assured that authorities are “doing everything possible” to supply drinking water to provinces such as Krivói Rog, Dnipropetrovsk, Jerson, Mykolaiv and Zaporiyia.
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