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Destruction of the Kakhovka dam: Putin denounces a "barbaric act" and blames it on the Kiev authorities

2023-06-07T18:02:17.908Z

Highlights: On a smaller scale, such acts seem likely to multiply in a context of new rises in tensions. "The Kiev authorities, at the instigation of their Western curators, continue to commit war crimes, to openly use terrorist methods and to organize acts of sabotage on Russian territory," says Putin. "A barbaric act"; "An environmental and humanitarian disaster of great magnitude"; "The destruction of the dam of Kakhovka, in the south of Ukraine, is an act of war," adds Putin.


On a smaller scale, such acts seem likely to multiply in a context of new rises in tensions.


Moscow correspondent

"A barbaric act"; "An environmental and humanitarian disaster of great magnitude" - Vladimir Putin condemned in these terms Wednesday the destruction, the day before, of the dam of Kakhovka, in the south of Ukraine, for which the belligerents blame each other while the catastrophic consequences of this event were revealed by the hour.

In a conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the head of the Kremlin affirmed that "the Kiev authorities, at the instigation of their Western curators, continue to bet dangerously on the escalation of hostilities, to commit war crimes, to openly use terrorist methods and to organize acts of sabotage on Russian territory." . To the word, an inverted decal of the wave of condemnations raised in the world by the striking images of the floods of the Dnieper gushing from the gaping breakthrough opened in the dam and invading surrounding towns and villages.

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Source: lefigaro

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