U.S. planning to declassify intelligence on Russia's blowing up of Ukraine dam - NBC
The United States government has intelligence that is leaning toward Russia as the culprit of the attack on the dam in Ukraine.
06 June 2023
The United States government has intelligence that is leaning toward Russia as the culprit of the attack on the dam in Ukraine.
The Russian army on Tuesday shelled the city of Nikopol and the Chervonohryhorivka and Marhanets communities in the Dnipropetrovsk region with artillery.
Ukraine has already returned 2,500 people from Russia, including about 400 children.
Ukraine’s Air Force has launched 10 strikes on the areas of concentration of enemy personnel.
On Tuesday, the UN Security Council will discuss Russia's blowing up of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam.
International partners are ready to provide Ukraine with F-16 jet fighters, but it is necessary to create the appropriate infrastructure for this.
Three bridges and more than seventy houses are flooded in the de-occupied Kherson region.
A defensive-offensive operation is ongoing in Donetsk region. The defense forces have success not only on the flanks around Bakhmut but also on other areas of the front.
Bakhmut has assumed the function of a magnet in the war, and the best and newest weapons that Ukraine receives from Western partners are sent there.
The explosion at the Kakhovka HPP has caused the flooding of the positions of Russian military units and may wash out Russian minefields and trigger their chaotic detonation.
All commanders of the Russian units and the direct executors of the destruction of the Kakhovka HPP dam, as well as those responsible for the destruction of other civilian infrastructure objects in Ukraine will be held accountable in line with international law.
The Kherson community showed how Antonivka, a suburb of the regional center, is flooding as a result of the Russians' explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant.
Residents of the southern regions affected by the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant are called on to drink bottled water.
In Kherson region, about 1,300 people have been evacuated from flooded areas after Russians blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant (HPP).
More than two thousand groups, including rescuers and police officers, are currently working to inspect shelters across Ukraine.
On the left bank of the river, the occupiers promise to evacuate people from the flooded village of Pishchanivka, but residents of the Oleshky community who are trying to leave on their own because of the Russians' blowing up of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant are not allowed to leave.
President Volodymyr Zelensky shared a video showing the aftermath of the Kakhovka HPP destruction by Russians.
Due to the Kakhovka HPP dam blast, the plant’s engine room, which contained 450 tonnes of fuel oil, was also destroyed, and 150 tonnes of technical fuel oil spilled into the Dnipro River.
Four evacuation points have already been deployed in Kherson.
Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov has said that the Russians' blowing up of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant is a new stage of Russian aggression.
Rescuers of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine are working in a unified system with the Security and Defense Forces to eliminate the consequences of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant explosion, and all-terrain vehicles have been sent to the site.
Ukraine will convene a meeting of the UN Security Council and appeal to international environmental protection organizations and the International Criminal Court following Russia's destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam.
The water level in the Kakhovka Reservoir is decreasing and has dropped by almost 1.5 meters.
Ukraine's military command anticipated in advance the possible actions of the Russian army regarding the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant and made appropriate calculations. Therefore, this will not prevent Ukraine's defense forces from advancing.
The head of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak published a video and photos of the consequences of flooding of settlements due to the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station by Russian invaders.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has said that there are currently no casualties among the population due to rising water levels caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant by Russian forces.
Due to the explosion of the Kakhovka HPP, there is a risk of flooding of energy facilities in Kherson region, including the Kherson CHPP. Almost 12 thousand consumers in the city (Ostriv district) have already been cut off from electricity, and there may be problems with water supply.
The head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Vasyl Malyuk, emphasises that not only the top of the Putin regime, but also ordinary people will be held accountable for the undermining of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station dam.
The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine released a video showing that almost the entire Kakhovka HPP is already under water.
Some 742 people have been evacuated as of 10:00 on Tuesday after Russian forces blew up the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant in the Kherson region.