The urgent mission of aid to cover the immediate needs of Ukraine after the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, in the southern part of the country, was announced today by the President of France Emmanuel Macron.

“France condemns this heinous act that endangers the population,” the French president said in a tweet after a phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. “I expressed to President Zelensky my solidarity with his people after the attack on the Kakhovka dam,” he added.

According to Elysée, the Crisis Management Center of the French Foreign Ministry will immediately send to Ukraine a first shipment of ten tons of hygiene products, water filters and a portable tank.

Earlier, the Ukrainian president announced that he informed his French counterpart about “the environmental and humanitarian consequences of the Russian terrorist act” and referred to the “urgent needs” to deal with the disaster in the Kherson region.

Moscow and Kiev blame each other for the collapse of a hydroelectric dam on the Dnieper River, which flooded towns and villages on both the bank held by Russian forces and the bank that remains under Ukrainian control. However, Moscow strategically he had much more to gain from the destruction of the dam.

Zelensky said he had agreed with Macron to continue “cooperation on defense issues”, particularly on Ukraine’s air defenses. He also thanked the French president for his support of the UN Security Council and they discussed the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.