Ukraine, Russia trade blame as dam blast threatens drinking water supply
that Moscow controls collapsed Tuesday, triggering floods, endangering Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and threatening drinking water supplies as both sides in the war rushed to evacuate residents and blamed each other for the emergency.and hydroelectric power station on the Dnieper River, while Russian officials blamed Ukrainian military strikes in the contested area. It was not possible to verify the claims.
Patricia Lewis, director of the International Security Program at Chatham House think tank in London, said apportioning blame is difficult but “there are all sorts of reasons why Russia would do this.” Amid official outrage, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he convened an urgent meeting of the National Security Council. He alleged that Russian forces set off a blast inside the dam structure at 2.50 a.m. and said some 80 settlements were in danger.But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called it “a deliberate act of sabotage by the Ukrainian side ? aimed at cutting water supplies to Crimea.
The Russian-installed mayor of occupied Nova Kakhovka, Vladimir Leontyev, said it was being evacuated as water poured into the city. It said that IAEA staff on site have been told the dam level is falling by 5 centimeters an hour. At that rate, the supply from the reservoir should last a few days, it said.The plant also has alternative sources of water, including a large cooling pond than can provide water “for some months,” the statement said.B.C.
Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that “a global ecological disaster is playing out now, online, and thousands of animals and ecosystems will be destroyed in the next few hours.”
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