Krivoy Rog, hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, was flooded after Russia’s airstrikes on water facilities collapsed a large dam.
“Russia has committed another terrorist act,” the head of the city’s military administration, Oleksandr Vilkul, told residents of the city in a Telegram message quoted by Ukrainian state media.
“Aboard Krivoy Rog, they hit a huge hydraulic structure with eight cruise missiles. An attempt to wash part of our city with water,” Vilkul said.
“We are monitoring the situation, the response is ongoing, everything is in place, including all services. “But the waters in the Ingulets River have risen,” he said.
Photograph of the consequences of the invaders’ attack on the dam at Krivoy Rog. pic.twitter.com/OPKNsgBk0F
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) 14 September 2022
Zelenskiy sought to assure citizens in a video message Thursday morning that “everything is being done to address the consequences” of what he called “another heinous Russian act”.
Analysts at the US-based Institute for War Studies have found that reported attacks on Kryvyi Rih served a military purpose, particularly by washing up pontoon bridges used by the Ukrainian military up to several miles away, but such tactics proved effective. she asked.
Net blows were met against the backdrop of Russia’s disastrous exodus from the region of Kharkiv (Kharkiv), Ukraine’s second largest city in northwestern Donbass, with thousands of hectares being reclaimed to the Russian border. According to both Ukrainians and local officials, a Ukrainian counterattack was set up by the Russians.
The situation in the Kherson region south of Kryvyi Rih and north of Crimea is also reportedly balanced for Moscow in the face of a slower Ukrainian counteroffensive, specifically targeting Russian forces trapped on the wrong side of the Dnieper. River through most of the territory of occupied Russia due to damage or destruction of the main passes.
Today, 8 Russian missile attacks on Krivoy Rog.
Missiles were aimed at hydraulic structures.
This caused the water level of the Ingulets River to rise, threatening the city.
It is clear that Russia wants to create a crisis situation, – Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Kirill Tymoshenko pic.twitter.com/t7jf6E1qT0
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_ru) 14 September 2022
Source: Breitbart
