Zelenskiy says dam destruction is 'environmental bomb of mass destruction'

7/6/2023 12:31

        President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described the bursting of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine on Tuesday as "an environmental bomb of mass destruction" and said only liberating the entire country could guarantee against new "terrorist" acts.
        
        "Such deliberate destruction by the Russian occupiers and other structures of the hydroelectric power station is an environmental bomb of mass destruction," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.
        
        Zelenskiy said the destruction of the dam would "not stop Ukraine and Ukrainians. We will still liberate all our land.
        
        "Only the complete liberation of Ukrainian land from the Russian occupiers will guarantee that there will be no more such terrorist attacks."
        
        In his remarks, Zelenskiy also said Ukrainian prosecutors had already approached prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in The Hague "to involve international justice in the investigation of the destruction of the dam".