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'Environmental bomb of mass destruction': Ukraine's Zelensky on dam attack

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Jun 07, 2023 04:58 AM IST

Zelensky said the destruction of the dam would "not stop Ukraine and Ukrainians.

President Volodymyr Zelensky described the bursting of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine on Tuesday as "an environmental bomb of mass destruction" and said only liberating the entire country could guarantee against new "terrorist" acts.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. (AFP)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. (AFP)

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"Such deliberate destruction by the Russian occupiers and other structures of the hydroelectric power station is an environmental bomb of mass destruction," Zelensky said in his nightly video address.

Zelensky said the destruction of the dam would "not stop Ukraine and Ukrainians. We will still liberate all our land.

"Only the complete liberation of Ukrainian land from the Russian occupiers will guarantee that there will be more such terrorist attacks."

In his remarks, Zelensky also said Ukrainian prosecutors had already approached prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in The Hague "to involve international justice in the investigation of the destruction of the dam".

And for the second day running, Zelensky singled out military units fighting in and near the long-besieged eastern city of Bakhmut, while giving no details of the clashes.

Read here: Russian-occupied Ukraine city 'flooded' after Nova Kakhovka dam breach

"Thank you! For moving forward!" he said.

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