“The world must react”, says Volodymyr Zelensky after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam

“The world must react”, launched Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, June 6, after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine. kyiv blames this attack on Moscow, which Russia categorically denies. “Russia detonated a bomb, causing massive environmental damage”he said during a speech broadcast by videoconference.

“Russia is guilty of brutal ecocide”further assured the Ukrainian president, judging that Moscow should “to be held fully responsible”. “Russia is at war against life, against nature, against civilization”also pinged Volodymyr Zelensky on Telegram.

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Russia for its part evoked an act of “deliberate sabotage” from Kyiv. But according to the Ukrainian president, “it is physically impossible to blow up [le barrage] one way or another from the outside, with shelling”the version advanced by Moscow to explain this destruction in the night.

The Ukrainian head of state also affirmed that the incident will not affect the plans of the counter-offensive fomented by kyiv for several weeks. “The dam explosion did not affect Ukraine’s ability to liberate its own territories,” he wrote on Telegram in the early evening, after a meeting with his staff. “Readiness [des troupes] is maximal”he added.