“So we’re still evaluating what happened. We really keep in touch with the Ukrainians. Obviously, the damage and destruction that we see is just heartbreaking. We will do our best to help the people of Ukraine, of course,” she said.
Jean-Pierre stressed that Russia had no right to be at the Kakhovskaya HPP from the very beginning of the invasion.
“This dam was under the control of Russia, and they are responsible for the destruction caused by this war. And we will do our best to support the people of Ukraine in this difficult time,” the White House speaker said.
On the morning of June 6, the operational command “South” 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.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky convened a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council due to the blowing up of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station by Russian invaders. The head of state instructed to evacuate people from risk areas and provide drinking water to all cities and villages that were supplied with water from the Kakhovka reservoir.
An evacuation has been announced in the Kherson region. According to the Kherson OVA, about 80 settlements may be flooded as a result of a man-made disaster.
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 in it will drop to a level below the hydroelectric power station) in four days.
The Ministry of Defense and OK “South” announced an increase in mine danger after the dam was blown up. Head of the Joint Coordinating Press Center of the Ukrainian Defense Forces “South” Natalya Gumenyuk noted that the mine-explosive barriers of the occupiers along the left bank were “undermined by water”, as a result of which the mines drift and can explode.
2023-06-07 22:32:40
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