“Representatives of the International Criminal Court have visited the Kherson region in recent days,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
"On the very first day after the dam collapse, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine sent a request to the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into the disaster. Work has already begun," Zelensky added.
Floods caused by the Kakhovka dam collapse submerged many houses in Kherson. (Photo: Sky News)
According to President Zelensky, about 4,000 residents have been evacuated by Ukrainian rescue teams.
Ukraine's leader described the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine on June 6 as an "environmental bomb", stressing that only the liberation of Ukraine can guarantee against new acts of "terrorism" .
The Kakhovka hydroelectric dam on the Dnipro River in the Russian-controlled Kherson region was partially destroyed on June 6, sending a torrent of water downstream. Ukraine accused Russia of blowing up the Kakhovka dam, while the Kremlin said Ukraine sabotaged the dam.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the attack on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant as a deliberate act of sabotage by Ukraine. He added that the Kiev authorities bear full responsibility for the consequences.
On June 7, when commenting on the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine and Western countries of escalating the conflict by destroying the Kakhovka dam. The Russian leader described the incident as a “ barbaric act”.
For its part, Ukraine has insisted that its forces could not blow up the dam because the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant is held by Russian troops. Officials in Kiev have also stressed that no missile they could have used could have caused that much damage, especially since the Soviet-era dam was designed to withstand a nuclear attack.
Kong Anh (Source: Sky News)
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