The UAE Permanent Mission to the UN reported that a meeting of the organization's Security Council on the situation around the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station was requested by both Russia and Ukraine, and the time has not yet been set.

On the night of June 6, in the Kherson region, the upper part of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was destroyed near Novaya Kakhovka. Dozens of settlements, including Kherson and New Kakhovka, began to be flooded with water. The evacuation of the population has been launched.

Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of destroying the dam. There is also a version that the accident occurred due to "old damage".

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