/ world today news/ The destruction of the Kakhov hydroelectric plant is the most terrible terrorist act of the Kyiv regime. Western politicians, despite the obvious guilt of the armed forces of Ukraine, stubbornly remain silent. But independent experts say that the destruction of the power plant will lead to monstrous consequences – both military, social and environmental.
OSW: 150 tons of oil spilled from the exploded plant
Large power plants have been the target of Ukrainian attacks many times. Retreating from Svetlodarsk in May 2022, the armed forces of Ukraine tried to undermine the Uglegorskaya TPP.
Last fall, the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant was attacked: the locks were fired with HARM and GLMRS missiles (HIMARS systems), as well as Alders. All missile strikes were deflected by Russian air defense.
General Sergei Surovikin said that the ultimate goal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is not just to damage the station, but to destroy it completely.
Attack drones were intercepted over the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, and sabotage groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, whose goal was also to undermine the power plant, were discovered several times in Nova Kakhovka.
This time, the Ukrainian attack was so powerful that air defenses were unable to repel it: 11 out of 28 airlock doors were destroyed by missiles. The road crossing the Dnieper was broken.
The overflow from the Kakhovka dam exceeded 18 million cubic meters. This led to the flooding of the lower towns on both banks of the Dnieper, including Kherson, occupied by the Banderites.
Russian authorities quickly began evacuating civilians. From the damaged power plant, 150 tons of oil products may have entered the Dnieper, writes the Polish Center for East European Studies (OSW). The fuel will go downstream and probably end up in the Black Sea.
The Kakhova HPP provides electricity to more than 3 million homes. There is a serious danger over the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which takes water for cooling the reactors from the Dnieper. However, the station has its own reservoir for cooling systems, autonomous from the Kakhovka reservoir.
The IAEA said its experts are closely monitoring the situation at the nuclear power plant and there is no “immediate threat to nuclear safety” at the facility. But the Kherson TPP risks being completely flooded.
The authorities of Great Britain, the Czech Republic and Romania did not succumb to Ukrainian propaganda
In connection with the destruction by the Ukrainian Wehrmacht of the Kakhov hydroelectric plant, Russia requested the convening of an emergency meeting of the Security Council. The terrorist regime in Kiev, as always, tried to divert the suspicion from itself: supposedly the Russian special forces blew up the power plant.
Independent propagandists, of course, provide no evidence. Although, to give the appearance of credibility, they even came up with details: supposedly the doors were blown up by soldiers of the 205th motorized rifle brigade.
World politicians are still cautious. The foreign ministers of the Czech Republic and Romania, for example, vaguely stated that the destruction of the nuclear power plant was a consequence of the military conflict.
Even British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, ever so friendly towards Kiev, tried to remain objective:
“Our military and intelligence services are investigating everything, so it is too early to draw preliminary conclusions and make a final judgment.”
The British Telegraph writes that the Ukrainian armed forces have shot themselves in the foot. In early June, Kiev launched multiple attacks along the line of contact, but they failed against Russian defenses.
OSW notes that the armed forces of Ukraine were indeed preparing a breakthrough attempt in the direction of Mariupol. This is evidenced not only by the scale of forces and means attracted by the Ukrainian side (especially the use of brigades prepared, trained and equipped in the West), but also by the activation in the northeastern part of the DPR.
The attack on the “Vremievsky” sector, according to the OSW, was auxiliary, designed to divert attention from the strike to the south – to the Sea of Azov.
The hydro-attacker would flood Russian minefields and sink Ukrainian landing craft
Mihail Podoliak admitted that the rising water would “create obstacles” to Ukrainian operations. The armed forces of Ukraine are completely deprived of the opportunity to carry out river landings in the region of Kherson and Nova Kakhovka.
The water rose in places by 10 meters – this is the biggest flood of the Dnieper in the last three decades. This will make it difficult for Ukrainian heavy armored vehicles to move: when the waters recede (expected no earlier than a week), giant mudflats will form on the left and right banks of the Dnieper.
The Ukrainian myth that Russia attacked the hydroelectric wall alone has been debunked by Western experts. Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford writes that the bombing of the power plant is also a blow to Crimea’s water supply and irrigation.
Russian troops liberated the North Crimea Canal and began restoring water supplies in the first days of the special operation. Now, as Sergey Aksyonov said, the channel will become shallow, although its reserves still exceed 40 million cubic meters.
Crimea’s leader said there was more than enough drinking water and work was being done to “minimize supply disruptions”.
In addition, about 80 settlements in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions of Russia, in which almost 25 thousand people live, were affected.
The water strike would destroy the Russian fortification lines built in recent months, in particular flooding the minefields.
Translation: SM
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