Nuclear plant concernsĪccording to the UN’s nuclear watchdog, IAEA, the damage to the dam has already led to a “significant” reduction in the level of the reservoir that supplies the ZNPP.
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The UN human rights office, OHCHR, said that civilians’ rights to housing, health and livelihoods, along with access to clean water and a health environment, were all at risk, calling for a full investigation into the disaster, and accountability. Secretary-General António Guterres (at podium) briefs reporters about the destruction in the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam in Ukraine. In a tweet, the President of the UN General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi, said he stood in solidarity with those suffering the effects of the disaster in the Kherson region, adding that "intentional attacks to cause long-term and severe damage to the natural environment, are war crimes." Long-term, “ many risk being left homeless and in desperate need, compounding the misery Ukrainians face amid Russia’s full-scale invasion”, said the UN Office. Thousands of people have already been reportedly evacuated, with towns downstream inundated with water. The Ukrainian and Russian governments blamed each other for launching an attack on the facility - according to news reports - which is under Russian control, on the southern and eastern side of the river, while Ukrainian forces control territory along the opposite bank. “Above all, I appeal for a just peace, in line with the UN Charter, international law, and the resolutions of the General Assembly”, he concluded. The floodgates of suffering have been overflowing for more than a year, and that must stop”, along with all attacks on civilians and infrastructure. He said the tragedy “was yet another example of the horrific price of war on people. “But one thing is clear: this is another devastating consequence of the Russian invasion of Ukraine”, he said, whose effects are being seen in dozens of towns and cities along the Dnipro River.Īt least 16,000 have already lost their homes he said, assuring that the UN and partners were rushing support to the affected areas, including drinking water, purification tablets, “and other critical assistance.” UN Secretary-General António Guterres, told reporters in New York outside the Security Council that the UN had no access to independent information to verify how the catastrophe had occurred. The UN Office in Ukraine tweeted that “thousands of people in Ukraine are in peril” following the major breach in the Soviet-era Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric plant, on the country’s largest river, the Dnipro, in the southeast, with video showing torrents of water cascading through.
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