Russia is blocking international aid workers from reaching Ukrainian civilians threatened by the destruction of Kakhovka Dam, according to United Nations officials.
“Operationally, we have boats, personnel, and supplies ready to go,” U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine Denise Brown said Tuesday. “However, the Russian Federation is yet to provide the safety guarantees we need to cross the front line to the left bank of the Dnipro River, including to Oleshky.
Russian forces have controlled the dam since last year. Ukrainian officials and Western analysts have suggested that they destroyed the dam in order to stymie any Ukrainian counteroffensive through the flooded region. Russian officials maintain that Ukrainian forces attacked the dam, yet Russian authorities decreed a week before the incident that “the technical investigation of ...
That disaster portends appalling consequences for Ukrainian civilians and the global food market, according to United Nations officials. Griffiths predicted that “the most awful shock” would come from the destruction of Ukrainian farmland.
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