Due to blowing up Kakhovka HPP, food prices may rise, - UN
The destruction of the Kakhovka HPP will have a huge impact on global food security, causing food prices to rise and water supply problems for hundreds of thousands of people.
This was stated by UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths, Censor.NET reports with reference to Radio Svoboda.
"This granary - this entire territory that goes down to the Black Sea and Crimea - is a granary not only for Ukraine but also for the world. We already have difficulties with food security, but food prices, I am sure, will definitely increase. "It's almost inevitable that we're going to see huge problems with harvesting and planting the next crop. And so what we're going to see is a huge impact on global food security," he explained.
Griffiths also noted that the damage caused on such a scale to civilian infrastructure is completely contrary to international humanitarian law. "It's obvious. Whoever did it violated the Geneva Conventions," Griffiths said.
As Censor.NET reported, on the morning of June 6, it became known that the Russian occupiers blew up the Kakhovka HPP. As a result of the explosion, the engine room was completely destroyed, the station cannot be restored.
The explosion of the Kakhovka HPP threatens the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP, but the situation is now under control. Also, an explosion can cause an imbalance in the energy system of Ukraine. The fields in the south of Ukraine may turn into a desert.
According to Ukrainian intelligence, no one, except Russia, had the technical ability to blow up the HPP. The NYT interviewed experts and also concluded that the station was blown up from the inside. Telegram channel 205 of the motorized rifle brigade of the Russian Federation, which is suspected of undermining the dam, wrote about the detonation of the HPP and the possibility of detonation back in October 2022.
In the Kherson region, as a result of Russian troops blowing up the Kakhovka HPP dam, the territories of the Nizhnyodniprovsky National Nature Park were flooded.
In the occupied territories, in the first days, the evacuation of the population completely failed, the Ruscists did not allow volunteers to rescue people.
The Ministry of Health urges not to consume fish that died due to a drop in the water level as a result of the Russians blowing up the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP. There is no safe way to prepare it.
As of the morning of June 8, 600 square kilometers have already been flooded in the Kherson region. The most difficult situation is on the left bank of the Dnieper.
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, and the coordinator of the UN system in Ukraine, Denise Brown, agreed that the organization will immediately form groups to provide humanitarian aid and evacuate people in the occupied territories on the left bank of the Dnipro, provided that Russia provides access and security guarantees.
Ukrhydroenergo predicts that the flood in the Kherson region will last for about another two weeks. Only in mid-July, the Dnipro will withdraw from the flooded settlements in the south of the country.
The World Health Organization (WHO) warns of an increase in the threat of an outbreak in Ukraine due to the explosion of the Kakhovskaya HPP of several infectious diseases, including cholera and other water-borne diseases.
