"The UN and humanitarian partners, in coordination with the government of Ukraine, are urgently sending aid, including drinking water, water purification tablets and other critically needed assistance," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

According to Guterres, the world organization does not have independent information about the circumstances of the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station.

At the same time, he called for an end to any attacks on civilian infrastructure.

Earlier, Russia's permanent representative to the organization, Vasily Nebenzya, said that Moscow would convene a meeting of the UN Security Council in connection with the situation at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station.

On the morning of June 6, the head of Nova Kakhovka, Vladimir Leontiev, reported damage to the upper part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia sent an airmobile group of rescuers to the Kherson region in connection with the situation at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the Kyiv regime committed a terrorist attack on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant to prevent the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in this area.