At least 62 people have been killed in the explosion of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine.
Russia reported 41 dead in the occupied part of Ukraine on Thursday, while Ukrainians have reported 21 dead so far. In fact, the number of deaths is probably much higher.
The dam on the Dnipro River in the Russian-occupied territory was partially destroyed on June 6. Large amounts of water escaped and flooded large areas. Kiev and Moscow accuse each other of being responsible for the collapse of the dam.
According to information from Kiev, a helper was killed and eight other people were injured by Russian fire in the flooded area. At the time of the attack, the men were clearing mud in the area where the water had already receded.
Selenskyj speaks of progress at the front
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promised progress on the front lines on Wednesday evening – two weeks after the start of the long-awaited Ukrainian counter-offensive. “We are moving forward in the south,” he said in his daily video address on Wednesday. He admitted that there has been heavy fighting, but everywhere – including in the east, where Ukrainian troops are on the defensive – the enemy is being destroyed, he said.
Zelenskyi had previously tempered public expectations of the Ukrainian offensive. In a BBC interview, he admitted that the offensive was “slower than desired”. Selenskyj also attributed the small territorial gains to the large-scale mining of the area by Russian forces. Therefore, a careful approach is needed to avoid unnecessarily endangering the lives of the soldiers.
Zelenskyy praised the EU’s new sanctions package as important to further isolate Russia “as long as Russia’s main export is evil and dead”. The priority now is to cut off ways to circumvent the previous sanctions, the Ukrainian head of state said.
Source: Krone
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