Representatives of the International Criminal Court visited the Kherson region, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said . According to him, an investigation into the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station has been launched.
“The other day representatives of the ICC visited Kherson region. On the very first day after the catastrophe, the Prosecutor General sent a corresponding appeal to the ICC to investigate this catastrophe. And the work has already begun,” Zelensky said. He promised to contribute to the ICC investigation. According to him, all Ukrainian "law enforcement agencies and other institutions are maximally involved in this process."
The left bank of the Kherson region is under the occupation of the Russian military, the right bank is controlled by Ukraine.
The Russian side claims that the hydroelectric dam collapsed after a series of artillery strikes from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to Ukrainian intelligence, the station was blown up by the Russian army, Zelensky's adviser Mikhail Podolyak said earlier. OSINT researchers suggested that the destruction of the dam began before its breakthrough on June 6 and the cause of the disaster was the damage received earlier and the improper operation of the hydroelectric power plant by the Russian administration.
On June 8, it was reported that Norwegian scientists recorded seismic tremors, confirming that the destruction of the hydroelectric power station was the result of an explosion. A day later, it became known that American spy satellites also recorded an explosion at the dam shortly before its collapse, but American analysts still do not know who is responsible for the destruction of the dam and how exactly this happened.
