Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the Russian side would respond extremely harshly to any Ukrainian attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. She said the US authorities are obliged to give an answer regarding their awareness of exactly how American weapons are used on the territory of Ukraine.
Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev in Minsk called the explosion of the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station another planned terrorist attack by Kiev. Press Secretary of President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said the purpose of Ukraine's sabotage is to deprive Crimea of water.