Kiev (BLAZETRENDS).- The Ukrainian military authorities have denounced early this Tuesday the blowing up, by Russian forces, of the Kakhovka dam, located on the Dnipro river as it passes through the province of Kherson in southern Kiev. Ukraine.
The attack has forced the emergency evacuation of the inhabitants of the affected area to begin, which the head of the Military Administration of the Kherson province, Oleksandr Prokudin, has addressed in a video.
The country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has convened an urgent National Security Council, as reported by the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andriy Yermak,
Yermak has called the blowing of the dam a “war crime” and “ecocide”, and has released a video that allegedly shows how water begins to overflow from the damaged dam.
“The Russians will be responsible for the lack of drinking water for the people of the southern Kherson region and Crimea, for the possible destruction of some towns and the biosphere,” the spokesman added.
The expected counteroffensive begins
The destruction of the dam occurs when both Ukraine and Russia have reported in their latest military reports actions by the Ukrainian army that seem to point to the beginning of their long-awaited counteroffensive to recover territories occupied by the Russians.
Ukraine has warned on several occasions since the start of the war of the possibility of Russia blowing up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Station dam.
In October last year, in the midst of the Ukrainian counter-offensive to retake control of Kherson, Zelensky called on the international community to put pressure on Russia to prevent it from doing so.
Zelensky then warned of catastrophic consequences for the entire area if that happened.
