After the destruction of the Kachowka dam, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan proposed a commission of inquiry. Erdogan addressed this in separate phone calls today with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Presidential Office in Ankara said.
Such a commission could be made up of experts from the two warring parties, as well as representatives of Turkey and the United Nations, and therefore have a format similar to the grain agreement, he said. In July 2022, the United Nations and Turkey brokered a deal that ended Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian grain.
Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter that he had spoken to Erdogan about the humanitarian and ecological consequences of the “Russian act of terrorism” and had given Turkey a list of urgently needed items.
The dam in the town of Nowa Kakhovka was destroyed last night in the Russian-occupied part of Kherson region in southern Ukraine. Ukraine and many Western observers are convinced that the Russian occupiers blew up the dam – possibly to thwart the planned Ukrainian counter-offensive. The Kremlin, for its part, blamed Kiev. Russia has been waging a war of aggression against the neighboring country for over 15 months.
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