“We call on the UN, the EU and other organisations to organise an international monitoring mission to the Kakhovka hydroelectric-power station.
“International specialists need to arrive immediately at the station along with Ukrainian personnel,” Shmyhal said during a government meeting.
On Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces had mined the Kakhovka plant with the intent of blowing it up, in what would amount to a “catastrophe on a grand scale”.
Hundreds of thousands of people around the lower Dnipro River would be in danger of rapid flooding if the dam was destroyed, Zelensky warned in a speech to European leaders.
He said cutting water supplies to the south could also impact the cooling systems of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest.
