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The flooded area of Kryvy Rych, the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, was partially cleared on Thursday after authorities acted quickly to divert water after a Russian cruise missile hit and burst the dam. I started seeing grace.
On Wednesday night, eight cruise missiles struck a hydrotechnical structure in central Ukraine, destroying a dam on the Inflets River, in what local officials said was a deliberate strike to wash over the city.
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“Russia has committed another act of terrorism,” Oleksandr Birkul, head of the Krivie Lee military government, said in a speech posted on Telegram, translated by Uclifform. “The attempt is to wash down part of our city with water.”
More than 110 homes were reportedly flooded, but Wirkur said water levels were falling and had dropped by nearly 16 inches after authorities worked through the night.
Virkul said two deliberate explosions and “massive engineering” work at a dam near Chornokhorka in western Ukraine have “increased its capacity” and allowed it to divert water from the Influts River. It says.
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President Zelensky condemned the attack in a fiery message Thursday morning, saying it had “absolutely no military value” and was another attack on civilians.
“Those who launch these missiles, who have come to our land, are the weak. You are the weak who are at war with civilians,” he said, referring to Russian soldiers as “rogues.”
“You will continue to be a terrorist that your grandchildren will be ashamed of,” he continued. I can’t save you.”
Zelenskyy’s impassioned speech came after he visited the recently recaptured city of Izium in the Kharkiv region of northern Ukraine on Wednesday.
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Ukrainian officials have defended their success in the region, with Zelensky saying that almost all of it is “unoccupied.”
However, Zelensky and local officials said the city remains in a state similar to Bucha and other urban areas occupied by Russian forces, again showing signs of human rights violations such as torture and killing of civilians. .