The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station early Tuesday morning was a “premeditated action by the Kiev regime” that “was planned in advance,” the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zajárova, said at a press conference on Wednesday. denouncing that the attack amounts to an act of terrorism.
“During the last month the water level in the Kajovka dam was artificially raised from 14 to 17.5 meters, according to the French hydrological portal. No, it is not the hand of the Kremlin, it is the Western monitoring structures that the West must trust,” said the official, who denounced that “just on the eve of the attack” Kiev ordered more water to be poured into the Kajovka dam from the Dnieper hydroelectric station.
As a result, ten hours after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, the water level not only does not drop, but rises. In this sense, Zajárova drew attention to the statements of the Ukrainian general Andrei Kovalchuk to The Washington Post, made in December of last year, in which he spoke about “a test attack” by Kiev against a gate of the Kakhovka dam ” to make a hole and see to what degree the water level will rise” in the river.
Kovalchuk explained that the Ukrainian military used a HIMARS complex, provided by the US, in an attempt to raise the water level of the Dnieper River, which runs through the hydroelectric power station. “The test was a success,” he confessed.
Speaking to White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre, and other communications officials in Washington, Zajárova asked if they were aware of this and if they knew how weapons supplied to Ukraine “at the expense of American taxpayers” are used.
“Did you know that US weapons are used to carry out pilot tests to commit a terrorist attack against civilian infrastructure in third countries?” asked the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry. “It is impossible not to notice it, it was published by an American newspaper half a year ago,” she added, demanding answers from the US government.
The attack on the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam early Tuesday morning caused the dam to rupture and massive flooding on both sides of the Dnieper River, prompting large-scale evacuations in the area. In Kherson province, a state of emergency was declared due to the disaster.
Vladimir Putin called the attack a “barbaric action” and “a dangerous gamble in the escalation of hostilities”, accusing Kiev of committing “war crimes” using “openly terrorist methods” and organizing “sabotage on Russian territory”. with RT