“An immediate and maximum global response to Russian terror is needed,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
I address everyone in the world for whom life is a value. Today the Russian occupiers have committed the biggest crime of ecocide on the Ukrainian land – not only during this war, but in decades.
In fact, the destroyed Kakhovka reservoir is one of the largest in Ukraine. It holds 18 billion cubic meters of water. All the structures of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant and its dam were located in the occupied territory. Under the full control of the Russian occupiers.
Last fall, we had information that the occupiers had mined the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. They did it intentionally. First, to blackmail the world. Second, to blow up the dam and use the flood as a weapon. This is exactly what happened.
The flood zone includes areas where more than a hundred thousand people lived before the war. Now, at least tens of thousands of people remain there.
Full text of the address: Office of the President of Ukraine
