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Threats to blow up Kakhovka hydro power plant speak to Kiev’s extremism — Russian MFA

Maria Zakharova emphasized that Russia is doing the right thing with regard to Ukraine and the goals set forth by the Russian leadership are important and relevant

MOSCOW, October 27. /TASS/. Threats to blow up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant to cut the water supply to Crimea that Kiev officials have been making clearly are a form of extremism, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Thursday.

She pointed to a recent statement by Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Alexey Danilov who had said that "if the Kakhovka hydro power plant is blown up, Crimea will be left without water for 10 to 15 years, or perhaps even forever." "If a person who represents the country’s major security agency says that a civilian infrastructure facility may be targeted and people may be left without water for 10 to 15 years - which is what the Ukrainian Armed Forces are doing - and he says it not without pleasure, then what other proof of the regime’s extremism and extremist logic do we need?" Zakharova noted.

"It did not start today as power lines supplying electricity to Crimea had been planted with mines and the water supply had been cut much earlier. This is the logic that has been in practice for years," she added. "It once again proves that Russia is doing the right thing with regard to Ukraine and the goals set forth by the Russian leadership are important and relevant," the diplomat emphasized.