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07-11-2022
MOSCOW/ KYIV: Ukraine’s Russian-held Nova Kakhovka dam has been damaged in shelling by Ukrainian forces, Russian news agencies report, citing emergency services.
Kyiv is facing possible blackouts and cuts to its water supply and heating network caused by Russian strikes on the power grid, Mayor Vitali Klitschko says.
The RIA Novosti Russian news agency has quoted a local Moscow-backed official saying the damage on the Nova Kakhovka dam was not “critical”.
“Everything is under control. The main air defense strikes were repelled, one missile hit (the dam), but did not cause critical damage,” Ruslan Agayev, a representative of the Moscow-installed administration of nearby city Novaya Kakhovka told the agency.
The Kakhovka hydroelectric dam in southern Ukraine was captured by Moscow’s forces at the start of their offensive. It supplies Russian-annexed Crimea with water.
It was one of the most shocking images from the start of the war in Ukraine – an apartment building in Kyiv struck by a missile, leaving a gaping hole in its side and sending a signal about the level of threat to civilian life.
Now though, rebuilding is well under way. Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett met one resident looking forward to moving back in, with an extraordinary story of how his nine-year-old son saved his family.
Journalist Harry Fawcett reporting from Kyiv has said that a report published in the New York Times on Sunday suggests there’s “contingency planning for evacuating the whole of the Ukrainian capital… if the power is permanently cut off.
“(It) would mean that sewage and water and all sorts of other services would go with it,” Fawcett said, adding that three million people still live in the capital.
“We spoke to the Ukraine energy minister recently. He was… talking about the relentless nature of the strikes on the energy grid. (He said) that some sites were attacked up to 10 times, they would be fixed, and then attacked again. He said that people with very close knowledge, real expertise in energy systems were in charge of the targeting,” Fawcett said. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
