INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday that the partial destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine was "another
devastating consequence" of Russia's invasion of its neighbor.An attack on the major Russian-held dam in southern Ukraine unleashed a
torrent of water that flooded a small city, inundated two dozen villages and sparked the evacuation of 17,000 people."Today's tragedy is
yet another example of the horrific price of war on people," Guterres told reporters at UN headquarters in New York."The floodgates of
suffering have been overflowing for more than a year
hamper Ukraine's long-awaited offensive.Guterres said the UN "has no access to independent information on the circumstances that led to
of the Russian invasion of Ukraine."Guterres, who since the start of Russia's invasion has condemned Moscow for violating the UN charter,
monumental humanitarian, economic and ecological catastrophe in the Kherson region of Ukraine," the secretary-general said."The United
purification tablets and other critical assistance," he added
"massive blow" to food production in the region, as well as carried significant risks of mines and explosives being shifted by water to
areas previously deemed safe.The destruction of the dam "will have grave and far-reaching consequences for thousands of people in southern
Nebenzya said the dam blast was caused by a "deliberate sabotage undertaken by Kyiv.""It is the criminal Kyiv regime and the Western patrons
obstinately pumping it full of weapons who bear full responsibility for the unfolding tragedy," Nebenzya said.Ukraine's envoy Sergiy
Kyslytsya said Moscow was "blaming the victim for your own crimes.""The explosion of the dam of the Kakhovka [hydroelectric power plant] is
an act of ecological and technological terrorism," he told the Council.
