Russian forces block UN access to areas damaged by Kakhovka dam explosion
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Russia’s occupation administration in Kherson Oblast has refused to give UN representatives access the areas of the east bank of Kherson Oblast affected by the flooding from the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, a UN official has said.
UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine Denise Brown stated on June 18 that the Russians were refusing to allow the organization into the flood zone in the part of Ukraine under Russian military occupation.
"The Government of the Russian Federation has so far declined our request to access the areas under its temporary military control," Brown said.
In this regard, Brown called on the Russian authorities to act in accordance with their obligations under international humanitarian law.
“The UN will continue to engage to seek the necessary access. Aid cannot be denied to people who need it.”
Kakhovka HPP dam breach — what is known
At an urgent meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ordered the evacuation of at-risk areas and the provision of drinking water to towns and villages served by the affected Kakhovka Reservoir.
President Zelenskyy called Russia's attack on the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant the largest man-made environmental disaster in Europe in decades.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office has opened an investigation on the incident under the charge of ecocide.
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