MOSCOW, July 13. /TASS/. International humanitarian organizations have not come up with any principled assessment of the Kiev regime's blowing up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Lenta.ru daily.

According to the minister, under the situation regarding this crime UN agencies are following instructions from the West and Kiev, limiting their role to ostensible attempts to deliver humanitarian aid to those in need.

"As for the response of international humanitarian organizations to what happened, just as in the case of the sabotage of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline and the terrorist act against the Nord Streams, no principled assessments were heard from them," Lavrov said.

"UN agencies limit their role to ostensible attempts to deliver humanitarian aid to the needy across the line of combat contact," he continued. "They know that this is unrealistic in the context of the military operation, but they are still trying to fulfil the political order of the West and the Kiev regime.".

Lavrov stressed that Russia has no doubts whatsoever that the responsibility behind the explosion at the Kakhovka HPP rests with the Kiev regime.

"We have no doubt that Kiev was responsible for blowing up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station," he said. "It appears that the Kiev regime is asking the so-called International Criminal Court to investigate a crime that it itself committed. This has probably never happened before in the history of this ‘pseudo-court’."

"We warned the UN Security Council about the plans of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis to destroy the dam back in October last year," Lavrov noted. "At that time, we asked Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to do everything possible to prevent this criminal scenario."

"The lack of response on the part of the United Nations Secretariat has reinforced the confidence of the Ukrainian authorities that they will get away with it," the minister added.

In the early morning hours of June 6, Ukrainian forces delivered a strike on the Kakhovka HPP. The shelling destroyed the hydraulic sluice valves at the HPP’s dam, triggering an uncontrolled discharge of water. The collapse of the hydro plant’s dam has caused serious environmental damage, with farmland along the Dnieper River being washed away. Emergency services said over 53 people were killed in the incident.