BERLIN: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday (Jun 7) expressed dismay at a lack of help from the United Nations and Red Cross with the fallout from the destruction of the Russian-occupied Kakhovka
Later in the interview, speaking Ukrainian, Zelenskyy said"people and animals have died" in the disaster, according to a German interpreter.It was difficult to get people out of the occupied Kherson region, he added.Zelenskyy said he had shared intelligence with Ukraine's international partners a year ago showing there was a risk of the dam being targeted.
"We shared this information with our partners and all of them said yes, the risk is very high that the dam is going to be blown up," he said. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he will chair a meeting on Thursday of an emergency coordination panel with Ukraine on the"outrageous destruction" of the dam.
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