LIVE – Ukraine accuses Russia of wanting to destroy a dam near Kherson

Ukraine, hit in its infrastructures and faced with Russian forces in the south and east, was alarmed by the possible opening of a new front in the north from Belarus, which could threaten Western arms transport routes.

“The threat of a resumption of the offensive on the northern front by the Russian armed forces is growing,” Oleksiï Gromov, an officer of the Ukrainian General Staff, told the press.

Volodymyr Zelensky stressed in this context before the European Council that the Ukrainian proposal to deploy an international surveillance mission on the border between Ukraine and Belarus “is gaining more relevance every day”.

The alleged military aid from Tehran to Moscow is due, according to Washington, to the presence of Iranian soldiers in Crimea.

These statements from the White House further raise the accusations against Iran, already sanctioned on Thursday by Ukraine’s Western allies for deliveries of kamikaze drones that Moscow and Tehran continue to deny.

“We believe that Iranian military personnel have been on the ground in Crimea and assisted Russia in these operations,” US Presidential National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said of the suicide drone attacks on Iran. Ukrainian cities and infrastructures in recent days.

More than 30 years after the end of the Cold War, Finland plans to erect tens of kilometers of fences and barbed wire on its border with Russia as a result of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

As a full member of NATO, Prime Minister Sanna Marin announced this week that she has broad support in Parliament to install tall metal fences on 10-20% of her nearly 1,300-kilometre border with Russia, a work of several hundred million euros.

“I hope construction can start as soon as possible,” said Sanna Marin.

Ukraine has accused Russia of having mined a hydroelectric dam near Kherson, in the south of the country, to cause a “disaster” in this region.

“Russia is consciously preparing the ground for a large-scale disaster in southern Ukraine,” Voldymyr Zelensky denounced on Thursday.

According to him, Russian forces “mined the dam and units of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant”, one of the largest such infrastructures in Ukraine. If the dam bursts, “more than 80 towns, including Kherson, will be in the flash flood zone,” he said.

Welcome to this live dedicated to the conflict in Ukraine this Friday, October 21, 2022.