The Kremlin claims that Ukraine damaged the dam in order to sever Crimea’s main water supply and draw attention away from a ‘faltering’ counteroffensive against Russian forces. Over 40,000 people are at risk owing to floods in places near the Dnipro river, despite the escalating finger-pointing.
Source: Al Jazeera
The United Nations describes the dam’s collapse as possibly the most significant incident of damage to civilian infrastructure since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in February 2022, warning of a humanitarian crisis and an ecological catastrophe. The safety of the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, whose reactors were being cooled with water provided by the dam, is also being questioned.
According to the protocols of the Geneva Convention, any attack against installations containing dangerous forces, such as hydroelectric dams, that might cause significant casualties among the civilian population, is a war crime. The tragedy serves as more evidence of the international community’s failure to aid in the peace process. In an effort to make Russia bleed, the US-led West has been arming Ukraine militarily, but Russia has no intention of giving up.
Source: ABC News (Australia)
The vow made by the UN in the preamble to its Charter to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war has proven to be miserably insufficient. The globe will need to prepare for harder times because the collapse of the dam caused global wheat prices to increase by 3%.
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