Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of deliberately sabotaging the dam, which has been in Russian hands since shortly after the start of Russia's invasion in February 2022.

His comments echoed President Volodymyr Zelenskiy who expressed shock on June 7 at what he said was the failure of the United Nations and the Red Cross to offer rapid help. I've been really surprised that the international community has not responded with a much broader and stronger help.' People really need it, they really need the water. 'There's just not a lot of activity here. Thousands of people have now been forced to evacuate homes flooded in the war zone, vast nature preserves have been wiped out and the destruction to irrigation systems may cripple agriculture across much of southern Ukraine for decades.īuffett said the international disaster response needed to be stepped up, describing houses that had collapsed in the flooding, others where water was being pumped out of them and others that were still completely submerged. The city of Kherson was liberated in November last year after months of Russian occupation and rapidly found itself on the new front line, coming under heavy shelling. They do it all over the world and they've done it for years,' he said.

There are certain organisations that are set up to really respond to emergencies. It's hard to understand, to be honest with you. Howard Buffett, a businessman and philanthropist, spoke to Reuters in an interview by Zoom on Tuesday, two weeks after Kherson and dozens of other settlements were hit by catastrophic flooding when the dam was destroyed on June 6.īuffett, whose foundation has committed $450 million to Ukraine, was in Kherson taking part in the distribution of aid. KYIV, June 20 (Reuters) - The son of one of the United States' richest men criticised the international disaster response to the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine this month as 'disappointing' and inadequate, as he visited the nearby city of Kherson.

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