Russian lawmakers address world over Ukrainian ‘terrorism’
The upper house of the parliament has accused the “Kiev regime” and its Western backers of destroying the Kakhovka dam
The upper chamber of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, on Tuesday placed the blame for the destruction of the Kakhovka dam on Ukraine and its Western backers and called on legislatures in other countries to give their assessment of the incident
In an open letter to the “parliaments and peoples of the World” published on Thursday, the Russian senators condemned what they described as a “terrorist act by the Kiev regime.” The lawmakers pointed out that the rupture of the dam has led to a “major ecological catastrophe” along the path of the Dnieper River.
According to the document, Moscow warned the UN last October that the Ukrainian leadership might carry out “such a terrorist act.”
Officials cited as proof the repeated shelling of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant by Ukrainian forces in 2022. They went on to claim that the Ukrainian authorities had deliberately opened the floodgates at a similar facility upstream, thereby filling the Kakhovka reservoir to the brim.
https://www.rt.com/russia/577723-russian-parliament-statement-kakhovka-dam/