The Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has told Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, that Japan is ready to offer emergency humanitarian aid in the wake of the dam explosion and flooding, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary said. Vitalii Kim, governor of the Mykolaiv region, has posted to Telegram to say that for two hours there has been no rise in the level of the Inhulets River, and “accordingly, there is no water rise throughout the region”. Kyiv cut access to the canal in 2014, after Russia illegally seized Crimea and claimed to annex it. A canal from the destroyed reservoir fed drinking water to the peninsula. Russian deputy prime minister Marat Khusnullin said on Friday that Crimea’s water supply will not be affected by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, and the peninsula had enough water reserves for 500 days. Russia did not provide any evidence to back up its claims. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called the purported attacks “barbaric”. The Kremlin on Friday accused Ukrainian forces of killing civilian victims of flooding caused by the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine in repeated shelling attacks, including one pregnant woman. One of the men said “Our saboteur group is there.
A one-and-a-half minute audio clip on its Telegram channel of the alleged conversation featured two unidentified men who appeared to be discussing the fallout from the disaster in Russian. Ukraine’s domestic security service (SBU) said earlier on Friday it had intercepted a telephone call proving a Russian “sabotage group” blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric station and dam in southern Ukraine.
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