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Baku/06.06.23/Turan: Russian troops blew up the Kakhovska hydroelectric plant in the early hours of 6 June and it cannot be restored. This was reported by the Ukrainian authorities.
"As a result of the detonation, the reservoir will be full of water within the next four days. Downstream of the Dnieper river, settlements, including Kherson, have started flooding.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called an emergency meeting of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. OP head Andriy Yermak called the blowing up of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant an environmental genocide - ecocide.
The Ukrainian authorities have started to evacuate the population, the number of which may reach 22,000 people.
The Russian side blamed the destruction of the dam on the Ukrainians, who allegedly launched a missile attack on the dam of the reservoir. However, a representative of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry called it disinformation. According to Ukrainian intelligence, the Russian military mined the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant back in April 2022. Tons of explosives were delivered to mine the pylons and locks of the hydropower plant and the dam itself.
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal reported that the bombing of the dam threatened to flood up to 80 settlements.
Kiev believes that the blowing up of the hydropower plant was done with the aim of deterring the Ukrainian army's offensive in the Kherson direction.
Charles Michel, head of the EU Council, called the destruction of the Kakhovka hydropower plant a war crime. "We will hold Russia and its puppets to account.
We will raise this issue at the European Council in June and offer additional assistance to flooded areas. My thoughts are with all the families in Ukraine affected by this disaster," he wrote on his Twitter. -0-
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