Ukraine war in the live ticker: +++ 01:15 Kiev and Moscow exchange blows in front of the UN Security Council +++

Ukraine war in the live ticker
+++ 01:15 Kiev and Moscow exchange blows in front of the UN Security Council +++

After the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine, Kiev and Moscow have blamed each other before the UN Security Council. At an emergency meeting called at short notice in New York, Ukraine’s UN ambassador Serhiy Kislizia spoke of an “act of ecological and technological terrorism”. The blast was “another example of Russia’s genocide against the Ukrainians.” The Russian ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebensia, said the incident was due to “deliberate sabotage by Kiev” and should be classified as a war crime. The dam was used for an “unimaginable crime”.

+++ 00:22 Russia ties dam access for helpers to conditions +++
After the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine, Russia only wants to let UN aid workers into Moscow-controlled territory if they travel there via Russia. “They simply refuse to leave the Russian Federation,” Russian Ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebensia told an emergency UN Security Council meeting in New York. Access is “allowed for the assistants, provided they enter from the correct area.” Nebensja also indicated that he would support an independent investigation into the background to the destruction.

+++ 23:34 USA consider dam sabotage by Kiev to be implausible +++
Although the United States has no reliable information about the background to the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine, an American UN representative considers sabotage by Kiev to be unlikely. “Why would Ukraine do something like this to its own territory and its own people, flooding its country and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes? It just doesn’t make sense,” Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood said before an emergency UN Security Council meeting in New York. Wood says he hopes to have more information on the apparent attack on the dam in a few days.

+++ 23:04 IAEA: Zaporizhia nuclear power plant still has cooling water for several months +++
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Ukrainian nuclear power plant at Zaporizhia will still have cooling water for several months after the dam was destroyed. The nearby cooling pond is currently full and the six reactors are shut down, the UN agency said. Measures have been taken to save water. However, an already very difficult situation has now become even more difficult.

+++ 22:24 Selenskyj: dam destruction is a “mass destruction environmental bomb” +++
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described the dam’s destruction as an “environmental bomb of mass destruction”. Only the complete liberation of Ukraine from the Russian occupiers will ensure that there will be no more such “terrorist attacks,” he said in his video address that evening. A Russian statement is not available. For its part, the government in Moscow blames Ukraine for the destruction of the dam.

+++ 22:10 Moscow accuses Kiev of terrorist attacks against civilians after the dam collapses +++
Shortly before the session of the UN Security Council, the Russian Foreign Ministry accused Ukraine of destroying the Kakhovka dam. “The incident is a terrorist attack aimed at fundamentally civilian infrastructure,” the agency said in a statement. Russia initiated the session of the UN Security Council to condemn the great “humanitarian and ecological catastrophe” triggered by Kiev. Ukraine, for its part, accuses Russia of blowing up the dam. The destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine is said to be the concern of the UN Security Council in New York today. An emergency meeting was scheduled for 4 p.m. (10 p.m. CEST), diplomatic circles told the German Press Agency.

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