In Georgia, Ukrainians protested against the Kremlin for blowing up the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station

In Tbilisi, a protest rally was held near the parliament building due to the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. The participants, local citizens of Ukraine, accused the Russian Federation of a war crime. The protesters were holding banners with the inscriptions “Russia is a terrorist state”, “Putin is a murderer”, “Russia is drowning my house”, etc.

Recall that on the night of June 6, the destruction of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region of Ukraine occurred. In Kyiv, this was called a Russian terrorist attack, which led to the flooding of settlements along the banks of the Dnieper. According to one version, the dam, which is controlled by the Russian authorities, was blown up, according to another, previous damage was the cause of the accident.

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