The Russians are committing a new ecocide in the temporarily occupied territories, the south of Zaporizhzhia may be left without water

The Russian occupiers continue to commit environmental crimes in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Now their actions may lead to the fact that the south of the Zaporizhzhia region will remain without water.

This was announced on June 13 by the head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, Ivan Fedorov.

The Russians continue to commit environmental crimes in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Now their actions may lead to the fact that the south of the Zaporizhzhia region will remain without water. Fedorov noted that the Russians are going to eliminate the consequences of blowing up the Kakhovskaya HPP dam in a very dangerous way for the environment.

“They will do it at the expense of an even more terrible crime,” the report says.

The head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration says that the occupiers are going to fill the irrigation canals with artesian water.

“In the future, this will lead to depletion of underground water reserves. Residents of the south of the region may be left without water supply,” he added.

Fedorov emphasized that such actions will lead to the destruction of the underground water system, and this is yet another ecocide in the temporarily occupied territories committed by the Russians.

Damages caused by the Russians’ detonation of the Kakhovskaya HPP for the environment amount to more than 2.4 billion hryvnias. The high water flooded forests, nature reserves, destroyed animals and plants, polluted fresh water and seriously affected the ecosystem of the Black Sea.

Earlier, the chairman of Nova Kakhovka, Volodymyr Kovalenko, spoke about the three main consequences of blowing up the dam at the Kakhovka HPP and about the people who live today on the left bank of the Kherson region.