At least seven missing after the explosion of the Kajovka dam

Moscow/Kiev.- Ukraine hopes that today the water level in the Dnieper River will stabilize after the destruction of the Kajovka dam, which has flooded dozens of houses and more than 10,000 hectares of agricultural land in a disaster that could condition the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the south of the country.

In addition, at least seven people are missing in the occupied Ukrainian city of New Kakhovka, in the southern region of Kherson, in the vicinity of which the dam was located.

“We have information on at least seven people” missing, the Russian-imposed mayor of the town, Vladimir Leontiev, told the TASS agency.

The councilor also explained that the water levels are beginning to drop slightly in the city after registering up to 12 meters on Tuesday in some places.

According to the emergency response center, the level has dropped by 35 centimeters.

More than 2,000 evacuees

More than 900 people had to be evacuated from flooded areas in Russian-controlled territories on the left bank of the Dnieper river, according to Leontiev.

On the Ukrainian-controlled right bank, 1,328 citizens were evacuated, according to the head of the Kherson Regional State Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin.

In the territories occupied by Russian troops, the town of Korsunka was completely submerged due to the uncontrolled discharge of water from the Kakhovka reservoir.

According to the president of the Government of the Kherson Administration imposed by Russia, Andrei Alekseenko, after also being completely flooded the day before Oleshki, now the situation is also critical in the town of Hola Prostan.

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Doubts about responsibility for the explosion

Russia and Ukraine have mutually accused each other of blowing up the dam, whose explosion originated from “a detonation in the engine room from inside the hydroelectric power station,” according to a statement from the company responsible for the plant.

At first, both NATO and the EU described what happened as a “war crime”, as it involved a civilian infrastructure.

For their part, the United States, the United Kingdom and France, the three Western powers on the UN Security Council, avoided attributing responsibility for the blowing up of the Kakhovka dam to Ukraine or Russia, although they insisted that without the invasion launched For Moscow this disaster would never have happened.

The three countries participated in a meeting of the highest decision-making body of the United Nations, called urgently after the destruction of the dam.

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