UN Jun 9 At the moment, there is no access to the zones under Russian control affected by the flooding caused by the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, Stefan Dujarric, the official representative of the secretary general of the organization, said at a briefing.
According to him, humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine Denise Brown said that «initial estimates indicate that 17,000 people were affected only in the territory under the control of Ukraine.»
«The catastrophe also affected people in the territory under the control of Russia, but the UN currently does not have access to these zones,» Dujarric said.
On the night of June 6, Ukrainian troops delivered a series of attacks on the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, as a result, the upper part of the station was destroyed, the reservoir dam itself was not damaged. There is an unregulated discharge of water. The head of the administration of the Novokakhovka urban district, Vladimir Leontiev, laid responsibility for the destruction of the hydroelectric power station on Kyiv. One of the goals of the Kyiv regime's bombing of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station is to deprive Crimea of water, said Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Russian President Vladimir Putin called the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station a barbaric action by the Kyiv regime and noted that this led to a large-scale environmental and humanitarian catastrophe. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the Kiev regime blew up the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, as it weakened its positions in the Kherson direction, transferring troops from there to the offensive area. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the attack.
Kakhivska hydroelectric power plant is the sixth (lower and last) stage of the cascade of Dnieper hydroelectric power plants, located five kilometers from the city of Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region, which became part of Russia following a referendum on September 30, 2022.
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