Russia accuses Ukraine and wants the UN to investigate who blew up the Kakhovka dam

Russia insisted this Tuesday before the Security Council of the UN in what Ukraine is responsible for the destruction of the dam Kakhovkain the south of the country, and said he wants the United Nations to investigate what happened.

“On the night of June 6, the regime of kyiv committed an unthinkable crime by blowing up the dam of the hydroelectric plant in Kakhovkaresulting in an uncontrolled discharge of water into the dnieper river”, denounced the Russian ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia.

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The diplomat accused the Ukrainian authorities of having already considered an attack against this infrastructure, located in an area under the control of Russian troops, last year and regretted that the Security Council not do anything in the face of your country’s warnings about it.

Indeed, Moscow sent a letter in October last year to the UN in which he denounced “kyiv regime plans to destroy the dam” and, in particular, the possibility of “launching sea mines down the Dnieper River or a massive missile attack”.

Nebenzia defended the thesis that Ukraine finally opted to destroy the installation because of the unconditional support of the West and its feeling of “impunity” and considered that the action may involve a “war crime”.

According to the Russian ambassador, this “sabotage“It would have two objectives: to attract attention to facilitate the regrouping of Ukrainian troops at a time when -he said- their counteroffensive is not advancing and to provoke”maximum humanitarian damage” to the population.

Speaking to journalists upon his arrival at the Security Council meeting, Nebenzia was in favor of the UN investigating the incident and recalled that his country had already tried without result for the international organization to initiate investigations into others such as the sabotage of the gas pipeline. North Stream.

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The diplomat also denounced that a “disinformation campaign” in the West assuring that Russia He was the one who destroyed the dam, when he had no reason to.

However, after him the representatives of USA and of the United Kingdomwho refrained from attributing the attack to a Russian attack but took the opportunity to criticize the Russian invasion of the eastern provinces of Ukraine and the consequences it has brought.

Source: Elcomercio

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