According to him, the Russian Federation used explosives planted earlier, and the order to blow up the station came from the top leadership of the occupiers.
“The dam was blown up by Russian terrorists with the explosives that were planted in advance, in September-October of last year, most likely, at the direction of Moscow, all this happened yesterday. The command for this terrorist act was given from the Kremlin, from the office [президента РФ Владимира] Putin. At other levels, such instructions are not given. This is not the level of a battalion, division, this is not even the level of a situation related to [министром обороны Сергеем] Shoigu,” Danilov said.
He noted that before the explosion, the invaders deliberately held back water in order to accumulate volume for greater destructive power. The secretary of the National Security and Defense Council believes that the reason for the attack is an attempt by the Russians to prevent Ukraine’s counteroffensive into the occupied territories.
On the morning of June 6, the operational command “South” of the Ukrainian defense forces reported that the Russians had blown up the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. According to Ukrhydroenergo, as a result of the explosion of the engine room from the inside, the Kakhovskaya HPP was completely destroyed and cannot be restored. According to the Kherson regional administration, about 80 settlements may be flooded as a result of a man-made disaster. An evacuation has been announced in the Kherson region.
The water level in the Kakhovka reservoir drops by almost 15 cm / hour, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA Serhiy Lysak. Ukrhydroenergo predicts that the Kakhovka reservoir will work out (that is, the water will sink in it) in four days.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the explosion of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station is the biggest man-made environmental disaster in Europe in decades. According to the Office of the President, as a result of the explosion, at least 150 tons of engine oil got into the Dnieper, there is a risk of further leakage of more than 300 tons.
Zelensky said that, according to Ukrainian intelligence, the explosion was deliberate, but the enemy acted chaotically, allowing their own equipment to be flooded. “At the same time, the detonation of the dam did not affect Ukraine’s ability to de-occupy its own territories,” the head of state added.
In the Kherson OVA on the morning of June 7, they said that the intensity of flooding is falling, but the water will still come. 1852 houses were flooded on the right-bank part of the region.
2023-06-07 13:02:07
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