June 8 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky said on Wednesday international aid organizations should intervene immediately to provide aid after the partial destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine.
Volodimir Zelensky felt that any organization that was not already there was simply incapable.
“It is necessary that international organizations, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, immediately get involved in the rescue operations and help the inhabitants of the occupied part of the Kherson region”, said the Ukrainian president during his his daily talk.
“If an international organization is not present on the spot, it means that it does not exist or that it is incapable”.
Volodimir Zelensky said that people in areas occupied by Russian forces in southern Ukraine had no access to drinking water, food, or medical aid, and that it was impossible to determine how many of them were at risk of dying.
(Report Ron Popeski and Oleksandr Kozhukhar; French version Camille Raynaud)
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