Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the situation as “an environmental bomb of mass destruction”
Water levels on Wednesday continued to rise after the Russian-occupied dam and hydro-electric power plant was destroyed early Tuesday, forcing more than 1,400 people to flee their homes and threatening vital water supplies as flooding inundated towns, cities and farmland. Kyiv and Moscow have traded accusations over the dam’s destruction, without providing concrete proof that the other is culpable.
chief Rafael Grossi said the UN nuclear watchdog’s staff on site have been told the reservoir is draining at 5 centimeters an hour and it is “estimated” that water used for the mainline of cooling “should last for a few days.” However, should the reservoir drop below the pumping level there “are a number of alternative sources of water,” Grossi said, with the main one being the “large cooling pond next to the site.
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