By KYIV. June 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the undermining of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam and called for additional tough sanctions against the Russian Federation.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemns another unprecedented act of Russian barbarism in the occupied territories of Ukraine – the undermining of a dam on the Dnipro River near Nova Kakhovka, which is a gross violation of basic norms of humanitarian law, environmental law and has signs of a war crime,” the statement posted on the Foreign Ministry’s website reads.
The ministry stressed that this act poses a direct threat to the lives of civilians, the functioning of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant and carries the prospect of an environmental catastrophe with unprecedented consequences on a regional scale, which will affect the whole of Europe.
“Poland will do everything possible to ensure that Russia bears international responsibility, and the perpetrators of this criminal act are punished, and will demand this within the framework of relevant international institutional and legal mechanisms, including humanitarian and environmental ones,” the Foreign Ministry assured.
Poland also indicated that further tough sanctions against the Russian Federation should be introduced in response.
