UN aid chief Martin Griffiths told the Security Council "the sheer magnitude of the catastrophe will only become fully realised in the coming days". "It was mined by the Russian occupiers and they blew it up." "It is physically impossible to blow it up somehow from the outside by shelling," Mr Kyslytsya said. Ukraine's UN ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya accused Russia of a "terrorist act against Ukrainian critical infrastructure", without providing evidence. "The deliberate sabotage undertaken by Kyiv against a critical infrastructure facility is extremely dangerous and can essentially be classified as a war crime or an act of terrorism," Mr Nebenzia told the council. Russia's UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia blamed Ukraine without providing evidence, accusing it of trying to create "favourable opportunities" for it to regroup its military units to continue a counteroffensive. Many Security Council members also asserted during Tuesday's meeting that the crisis would not have occurred if Russia had not invaded neighbouring Ukraine in February last year. US envoy to the UN Robert Wood says the US is "not certain" who is to blame for the burst dam in Ukraine. However, Kyiv has not revealed in which direction it plans to strike. The dam's collapse occurred just as Ukraine was poised to launch a counteroffensive and it could complicate the advance of its forces in any assault, analysts said. With water levels still rising, officials and analysts have begun to count the human and environmental costs for one of the world's most fertile agricultural countries, saying settlements, thousands of people and some rare wildlife species are at risk.Īt least 150 tonnes of oil from the dam have leaked into the Dnipro, Ukrainian Environment Minister Ruslan Strilets told a press briefing, and the environmental damage has been estimated at 50 million euros ($80 million).Ī meteorologist measuring the river level at the scene said the water was 3.5 metres higher than on Monday, before the dam was destroyed. "Such deliberate destruction by the Russian occupiers and other structures of the hydro-electric power station is an environmental bomb of mass destruction," Mr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address.
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