Russia-Ukraine war: Russian strike in Ukraine disrupts water supply for thousands in Moldova

A river clean-up operation in progress. PIC COURTESY/CNMC Moldova

Thousands in Moldova have been left without water after a Russian strike on a hydroelectric plant in neighbouring Ukraine resulted in oil polluting a major river.

President Maia Sandu blamed Russia for polluting Dniester River in an attack on Ukraine's Novodnistrovsk plant on March 7.

The plant sits about 15 km upstream from Moldova's border with Ukraine and supplies water to about 80 per cent of Moldova's population.

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