A dam and a hydroelectric power plant in a Russian-controlled area of southern Ukraine were destroyed Tuesday, putting thousands of lives at risk in what President Volodomyr Zelenskyy said is the 'largest man-made environmental disaster in Europe in...
were destroyed Tuesday, putting thousands of lives at risk in what President Volodomyr Zelenskyy said is the “largest man-made environmental disaster in Europe in decades.”
Mr. Zelenskyy said Russian troops have been controlling the dam and the entire power plant for more than a year following the invasion of“It is physically impossible to blow it up somehow from the outside, by shelling. It was mined by the Russian occupiers and they blew it up,” he tweeted. “Russia has detonated a bomb of mass environmental destruction.”
“It will not prevent our military from defending the left bank. However, fields along the coast have been washed away, and peaceful infrastructure has been disrupted,” Mr. Saldo said on his Telegram social media account. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been receiving regular reports on the situation at the Kakhovka power plant, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow.
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