russian invaders blew up the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station

On the night of June 6, 2023, the russian invaders blew up the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station.

Units of the National Police and the State Emergency Service of the Kherson Region were alerted to alert and evacuate the civilian population from potential flooding zones on the right bank of the Dnipro River, namely: the villages of Mykolaivka, Olhivka, Lyovo, Tyaginka, Poniativka, Ivanivka, Tokarivka, Poniativka, Prydniprovske, Sadove, and partly the city of Kherson – Korabel Island.

The water level is rising.

Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko reported that as of 10:00 a.m., 742 people had already been evacuated due to the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. According to him, the task of the State Emergency Service and the police now is to evacuate people as much as possible, to save them from the consequences of another terrorist attack by the evil empire.

About 80 settlements are in the zone of potential flooding and the most of them are temporarily occupied by the enemy.

“The water is coming. The situation is complicated by the fact that some roads are washed away. This makes it impossible to travel to individual settlements. Evacuation teams are looking for other ways” – Ihor Klymenko said.

According to the information of the State Enterprise “National Atomic Energy Generating Company “Energoatom”, as a result of the detonation, the water level in the Kakhovka reservoir is rapidly decreasing, which is an additional threat to the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhya NPP.

Water from the Kakhovka Reservoir is necessary for the station to receive power for turbine capacitors and safety systems of the ZNPP. The station’s cooling pond is now full: as of 8:00 a.m., the water level is 16.6 meters, which is sufficient for the station’s needs.

Energoatom monitors the situation and follows the actions of workers at the ZNPP together with other international organizations present at the plant, in particular, the IAEA.

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Source: Governmental portal of Ukraine, Ministry of internal affairs of Ukraine, Information portal of State Enterprise “National Atomic Energy Generating Company “Energoatom”