On Wednesday, China expressed “serious concern” over the destruction of the Kakhovskaya HPP, AFP reports.
“We express serious concern over the damage to the Kakhovskaya HPP dam,” said Wang Wenbin, an official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
According to him, Beijing is “deeply concerned about the humanitarian, economic and environmental consequences”.
On the night of June 6, there were reports of the destruction of the Kakhovskaya HPP controlled by the troops of the Russian Federation, which in the morning officially were confirmed. Russia accused Ukraine of undermining the Kakhovskaya HPP. As the spokesman of the Russian president Dmytro Peskov stated, Kyiv is trying to deprive the occupied Crimea of water against the background, as he claims, “offensive actions, who choke.” Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, replied that Ukraine had nothing to do with the blowing up of the Kakhovskaya HPP.
The destruction of this hydraulic structure, say experts, posed a risk a large number of civilians and created a threat to the cooling system of the Zaporizhia NPP reactors.
Prosecutors opened a case on the detonation of the Kakhovskaya HPP ecocide.
Ukrainian government announced the evacuation of dangerous areas of the Kherson region.
The main building of the North Crimean Canal and the Kakhovka HPP in the Kherson region were captured by the Russian military last February.
Kakhovskaya HPP: consequences of the explosion
On the night of June 6, reports appeared on social networks about the destruction of the Kakhovskaya HPP dam. In the morning, the operational command “South” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine accused the Russian occupying forces of undermining the dam.