President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of planting mines at a hydroelectric dam within the Kherson area of southern Ukraine, which is underneath the management of Moscow’s forces.
“Based on our info, the mixture and dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric energy plant have been mined by Russian terrorists,” Mr Zelensky stated in his each day tackle revealed on social networks.
“If the dam is destroyed… the North Crimean canal will merely disappear”, and this is able to be “a disaster on a grand scale”, he added.
Earlier on Thursday Mr Zelensky instructed the European Union that “Russia’s management has given the order to show the vitality system itself right into a battlefield.”
Talking through 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 instructed EU leaders assembly in Brussels for a summit.
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