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Post by sevenofnine on Oct 21, 2022 14:07:04 GMT -5
Vlady going for it Ukraine claims Russia has mined a dam at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant in the Kherson region. Meanwhile, the US has said Iranians in Crimea helped Russia target Ukraine with drones. DW has the latest. Ukraine has accused Russia of planning to destroy a hydropower plant in the eastern Kherson region — which Moscow has illegally annexed and subjected to martial law. "Russia is preparing a manmade catastrophe," Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Thursday. Podolyak said Russia was mining the dam and transformers at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant to flood the lower Dnieper River, where Russian troops face a Ukrainian offensive. Earlier on Thursday, Vladimir Leontyev, a Kremlin-installed regional official, said Ukrainian forces had launched five missile strikes against the Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power station. He told Russian TV that if the facility was destroyed, a crucial canal providing water to annexed Crimea would be severed. Zelenskyy said Russia had plans to blow up the dam and power station in what he deemed a terrorist act www.dw.com/en/russia-ukraine-updates-kyiv-warns-russia-plans-to-destroy-hydroelectric-dam/a-63514001
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