Thus, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commented on the attack on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station.
She recalled that in this situation, the statement of Major General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andriy Kovalchuk in an interview with The Washington Post in December last year is indicative.
Then he said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had already launched a test strike from the US HIMARS system on one of the dam locks in order to "make a hole in it and see how much the water rises in the Dnieper."
In this regard, Zakharova asked a question to the coordinator for strategic communications at the White House National Security Council, John Kirby, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and everyone responsible for communications in the White House.
"Did you know how American weapons are used, weapons that are supplied to the territory of Ukraine? That trial tests are being carried out to commit a terrorist attack on civilian infrastructure in third countries?" said the representative of the Russian department.
According to her, these are questions that the Russian side directly raises in the public space in front of the White House and it is obliged to answer them.
Earlier, Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, also said that the leadership of the Ukrainian Armed Forces back in 2022 openly announced plans to destroy the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station on the Dnieper.
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the purpose of Ukraine's sabotage at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station is to deprive Crimea of water.
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.