in the, in our series guardian's of truth watch now on youtube dw documentary the, this is dw, use live from the humanitarian, the sauce, the unfolding in the southern ukraine offer a russian held down is destroyed. both sides are trading blame for blowing up. they've called down on the need for a river times crops and drinking water are at risk with thousands of residents already evacuated. the done breach is expected to be an e code the sauce to,

to wait until to ukraine's environmental minister to get his assessment of the impact the i'm hold on psycho a will welcome to the program. a few minutes here in emergency is on folding in southern ukraine, following the destruction of a major, dumb, controlled by russia. cave accused as moscow of blowing up the co host could um, too slow. ukraine's military image signs of ukrainian counter offensive gaining traction. thousands of civilians have been forced to evacuate from the flood waters prompting local officials to declare a state of emergency concerns over the nearby separation nuclear power. plants are also growing interest awards from the reservoir that's now draining away. meanwhile,

the kremlin is accusing ukraine of sabotage to distract from alleged failures on the battlefield. with floodwaters rising, people grasped what they could and fled supplies send me every thing is submerged in water. all the furniture, the fridge, food, all the flowers. everything is floating. i don't know what to do. satellite images taken 2 days apart. so the extent of the damage to the coast could um most of my officials say up to a t townsend villages or at risk of flooding. thousands of residents have been told to evacuate. the dam lies in russian controlled southern ukraine near the front line. want to show you, crane blames most go for the breach. president below them is lensky claims that

keith knew that russia had placed explosives on the last you, such as inform on certainty some. the information indeed came from our intelligence . we chatted without partners and everyone essentially understood that the russian federation was together with certain collaborators, had a mind them coming about i'm, i'm assuming the wallet dumbly schumann or the criminal accuses key of sabotage. the defense minister claim to crane blue, the dumb to prevent the russian offensive use tutors in the cave regime committed another terrorist crime. that kind of car jo electric time was probably not. that was which led to the flooding of significant territories, supplemented especially significantly. anybody, washington has responded cautiously, a lot of interest saying that monitoring the impact of the breach, investing in america agenda members. but we cannot say, conclusively, what happens at this point. we will certainly share more information when we can.

what is clear and what we absolutely, kenzie, is that the damage to the ukranian people into the region will be significant. well, leaders have condemned what is being cool to humanitarian on the logical disaster. i'm drawing from washington dc, you know, by national security, unless joseph students see only he's a member of the council on foreign relations. thank you for taking a time to speak to us now the ukrainians and the russians are blaming each other for the down breach who stands to gain the most as well. there's no question that the russian stand to gain the most. the ukrainian counter offensive seems to be in motion. it is starting. there been combat along most of the 600 kilometer front line. and this is a way of blocking the ukrainians from crossing the deep row river from trying to make their kind of offensive affective and cutting the russian land bridge between

russia proper and crimea. so russia has all the motivation in this case, but the destruction of this down deprives the russian occupied crime in peninsula of water, and it will force the russian troops to regroup. doesn't ukraine also stand to gain something here? yes, that's possible, but it would be highly unlikely that the ukrainians would want to drown their own. people would want to impede their own military operations. it's there is no washer offensive. at this point, the russians are in defensive positions. the ukrainians are the ones that are trying to get across the river to attack the russians. this flooding threatens, they are kind of offensive plants. let's talk a little bit about the separation nuclear power plant. you've written that the separation power plant. is it taking you say a time bomb, then you say that you and you say what's to be i a has said today that there is no

immediate new phase safety risk from the cutoff cut down breach. what do we know about this situation at separate you? this is grave announced at the i a director, rafael mariano grossi is going to as upper we show next week. and that he is warning that while there is no immediate crisis, this greatly complicates an already dangerous situation. he's been wanting for months about the conditions at the plans, but figured that the electricity could be cut off, that the staff that has been cut by 2 thirds could be stressed and make an error that's fighting in the region. could interrupt the electrical electric supply or damage the reactors. and now we have this problem of the river on like below the dam, where the problem is flooding this after we sure facility is above the dam. and here the problem is that the rock, the river level, is dropping precipitously. if it continues to drop at this rate in

a couple of days, the nuclear reactor will be unable to draw water from its reservoir there to cool the fuel by its if those fuel rods are not cool, they will explode in a hydrogen gas explosion. much like what we saw in from kasheila, as the director pointed out, there is a of a cooling pond on site. they should be able to operate for months and keep the fuel rods cool. as long as the structural integrity of that holding pond is maintained. and that's the great danger, if the russians indeed are behind this destruction of the damned, if they're willing to do this, what else are they willing to do? they might be willing to intentionally destroy the electricity supply or the cooling supplied to this after we share facility, causing another gross humanitarian disaster. what could the effects be if there is a successful ukrainian counter offensive in the separate you era area as

well? we expect the fighting to be quite heavy in this region because it's the critical point where you can cut the russian supply lines, cut the ability of the russians to transfer as of troops and supplies from rush to proper down to pry me, et cetera. so we expect the fighting to be quite heavy, and the danger is that the russians intentionally destroyed this aperture facility or fighting unintentionally hits the facility, cuts off the electricity, thereby ending the cooling operations for breach is the one of the cooling pond for breaches. one of the reactors itself, there are multiple ways that this could go south in a hurry. that's one of the reasons i, a director rockdale grossi is going there to try to calm the situation. try to get russia to agree to de militarize, the plant, withdraw the military from the plant and, and declare a demilitarized zone around the plant. you can solve this. there is a solution,

but it all depends on russia. they're the ones holding the cards right now. and so far they appear to want to keep this operation plant as a nuclear ace in the hole, if they need to play it. as part of this kind of offensive developed. russia holding into the costs. that's national security. i miss joseph stevens unit. thank you very much for your analysis. thank you for having me. your friends environment minister has told d w that the attack on the dime will leave parts of his country's nature and wild life and a state from which it cannot recover. russell on the streets also said it's up to a 1000000 people may be left without access to fresh water. he was making sure they don't use deck power in brussels, in my opinion. and today we have the few just crimes environmental crimes from the 1st day or full scale invasion. i understand that the now we have destroyed

a lot of territory as we have for the last national park theater. thought it, this isn't, isn't a new palsky, president oil. you know, we have a lot of for destroyed them parts of emerald network for you to be on emerald network. i'm out to the toyota, and i understand that the some parts of wild nature we lost forever. so now i know just the fingers of some pollution of water. so we understand that the, maybe $600.00, maybe $800.00 on so for oil now in the put it into the water. now an environmental inspection is calculate and the total environmental damage where i hold that to in near this time, we will have more correct. uh, if you go to send we will share it all over the world. this is a better button. ok. this is a real active site and this is the real um home on it that i got the story for the

future. um, i understand that some, maybe 1000000 people will be was out of fresh water, but our governmental officials and our services national services do their best. tu. tu, tu, tu, tu, tu? correct this situation? how do you expect international partners like the ones here in brussels? into european union to bring about a kinds, ability and justice for this kind of this kind of a type this that creates this kind of damage. first of all, i'd like to say that the from the 1st day of the full scale invasion, we try to calculate the environmental damage. now we have more than $2400.00 cases. it's all for and why don't month old crimes? the daughter old damage is more than $52000000000.00 oil us. we use 7 new methodologist which was developed, but we as

a european product notes and was the expos from the united states, from the, from the united states. and i believe that in future it will be as a base to get the reparations from russia. now, i mean, the, not the i, i say not about the older perturbation. i mean environmental protection. this has been a difficult challenge, but i'm sure that we could be the 1st to con, through all over the world in on was in or will conflict. who could get this arbitration in the future? the war is expensive or not because of the cost of vehicles. i mean military vehicles, the war is expensive because of cost of environmental industries. let's thank you so much for joining us under japan. as of now,

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