President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of planting mines at a hydroelectric dam within the Kherson area of southern Ukraine, which is beneath the management of Moscow’s forces.
“Based on our info, the combination and dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric energy plant have been mined by Russian terrorists,” Mr Zelensky stated in his every day handle printed on social networks.
“If the dam is destroyed… the North Crimean canal will merely disappear”, and this may be “a disaster on a grand scale”, he added.
Earlier on Thursday Mr Zelensky informed the European Union that “Russia’s management has given the order to show the power system itself right into a battlefield.”
Talking by way of videolink he warned that will spur a brand new wave of Ukrainian refugees fleeing to Europe.
“The implications of this are very harmful, once more for all of us in Europe,” Mr Zelensky informed EU leaders assembly in Brussels for a summit.
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