6:45 am: France will send aid after the destruction of the dam
Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday the dispatch, “in the very next hours”, of “aid to meet the immediate needs” of Ukraine in the face of the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam.
“France condemns this heinous act which endangers populations,” the president said on Twitter after a telephone interview with his Ukrainian counterpart. “I was able to tell President Zelensky of my solidarity with his people,” he added.
The Crisis Center of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs will transport around ten tonnes of emergency humanitarian equipment and goods, the Quai d’Orsay said shortly after. The aid includes in particular “water purifiers, family hygiene kits, 500,000 water purification tablets and several storage tanks”.