Ukrainian MP Kira Rudik has called for more support including additional air defence systems from the West, in the face of a fresh barrage of Russian attacks targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure overnight.
It has led to emergency blackouts in several regions after hydro and thermal energy plants were hit. Last week, Russia also hit Ukraine's largest dam, the DniproHES in the southern Zaporizhzhia region.
"It must become a shared task, not only for Ukraine, to ensure such environmental disasters no longer occur in Europe," he said, pointing out that Moldova could also be impacted as the Dniester River is its main water artery. "That was a real tragedy for the whole region in Ukraine and had a huge impact, not only on the people that are living there, but on the surrounding regions."
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