The Post said the intelligence report the U.S. Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the attack, in keeping with its policy regarding other secret operations it has been linked to since the war began. ally shared the information with the CIA in June 2022, according to the newspaper, which said Ukraine planned for the covert operation to be carried out by a small group of divers who reported to the top commander of the country's armed forces. US knew of plan for Nord Stream sabotage 3 months before, report saysīiden administration officials knew three months before the Nord Stream pipelines were sabotaged in late September that the Ukrainian military planned to bomb the underwater network that supplied natural gas from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.Ī close U.S. At maximum capacity, Lake Mead, the reservoir formed by Hoover Dam, holds about 9.3 trillion gallons. The Kakhovka dam holds back about 4.8 billion gallons of water. The U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement there was “no immediate risk to the safety of the plant." The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which requires water for its cooling system, is upstream from the dam − also in territory controlled by Russia. Oleksandr Prokudin said more than 1,300 houses were flooded, the Kyiv Independent reported. West of the Dnipro River in Kherson province, a region held by Ukraine, Gov. The Russia-installed mayor of Nova Kakhovka, a city of 45,000, said his town was underwater, state media reported. "Not a single meter should be left to them, because they use every meter for terror.'' "The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam only confirms for the whole world that they must be expelled from every corner of Ukrainian land," Zelenskyy said on Twitter. Emergency crews evacuated thousands of people from Ukrainian and Russian-controlled areas. Video footage released by Zelenskyy showed water crashing through wide gaps in the dam and roaring downriver toward the city of Kherson, home to almost 300,000 residents before the war. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the dam was mined by the Russian occupiers, creating the "largest man-made environmental disaster in Europe in decades."
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused Ukraine of "deliberate sabotage" to deprive Crimea of water.
Dam blasted thousands flee floodingĪ major dam collapsed early Tuesday in a part of southern Ukraine controlled by Russia, causing massive flooding, putting thousands of homes at risk and threatening drinking water supplies.Įach side blamed the other for the disaster, which comes as Russian forces struggle against what appears to be the start of a long-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive.
◾Moscow claims it successfully fended off a Ukrainian attempt to ram through Russia’s defenses, but some pro-Kremlin military bloggers say Kyiv’s troops made some quick gains. ◾Kyiv is keeping silent about the start of any counteroffensive, but fighting is raging in several sections of the front line, signaling that the long-expected campaign could be getting underway. Ukraine's official Twitter feed countered with "Happy Russian Language Day, with a fake photo of a flooded U.N. Twitter feed posted a note that Tuesday was Russian Language Day. "With Russia short of reserve units, the degree to which Wagner remains responsive to (Russian military leadership) will be a key factor in the conflict over the coming weeks," the assessment says. The ministry notes that the feud between Prigozhin and the Russian military has reached an unprecedented level. The Russian turmoil comes as a "substantial increase" in fighting is taking place this week along much of the front, including areas that have been relatively quiet for several months, the British Defense Ministry says in its latest assessment of the war. Prigozhin also accused Russian forces of putting down land mines to kill his men as they withdrew from Bakhmut. Roman Venevitin admits that while drunk he had ordered his troops to fire on a Wagner convoy. In a video posted on Prigozhin’s social media channels, Lt. The long-running feud appeared to reach new heights this week as Prigozhin announced the capture of a Russian commander. Yevgeny Prigozhin, a frequent critic of the Russian military and defense minister Sergei Shoigu, said Tuesday that if the ministry's inflated numbers since the war began were true “we have already destroyed the entire planet five times over.” The leader of the Russian mercenary Wagner Group credited with seizing the Ukraine city of Bakhmut dismissed as "wild fantasies" claims by the Russian Defense Ministry that its troops killed more than 1,500 Ukrainian troops and halted their advance.
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