A new dimension for war who is raging from February 2022 V Ukraine puts the destruction of one giant dam V – city under Russian control New Kakhovkain his area Peninsulaleading to an unprecedented flood.
Kyiv And NATO they accused her Russia that he blew up the dam, and Moscow, for its part, accused the Ukrainian army of sabotage.
The floods that were caused they led thousands of people move away from settlements and settlements located around the dam.
From the dam, height 30 meters and 3.2 kilometers longwatered Crimea and electrified Nuclear power plant in Zaporozhyewhich is currently not in danger.
Photos from the area they reflect the scale of the disaster. Especially, A satellite image published by the BBC shows damage to the central part of the dam and part of the building of the hydroelectric power station on the eastern bank of the Dnieper.
“It won’t hinder our progress”
Dam collapse New Kakhovka will not stop the advance of Ukrainian troops, said a senior Ukrainian military man.
“In terms of preventing our offensive actions, the military command has fully taken into account these perfidious actions of the enemy and will not interfere with our advancement in areas where there are large floods,” the minister stressed. Sergio Naevcommander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to the state news agency Ukrinform.
“Russia is guilty of ecocide”
“The world must react,” said the President of Ukraine. Vladimir Zelensky. “Russia is fighting against life, against nature, against culture,” he said, accusing the Russians of planting mines before blowing up the dam.
“Russia blew it up, causing enormous damage to the environment,” Zelensky said during a speech on “Nine from Bucharest“, a scheme that brings together the nine countries of Central and Eastern Europe that are members of NATO. “This is the biggest human-caused environmental disaster in Europe in decades,” he continued.
The destruction of the dam raises concerns about the devastating consequences for the fauna and flora of southern Ukraine. “Russia is guilty of barbaric ecocide,” Zelensky said.
“It is impossible to blow up the dam from the outside in one way or another, by bombing,” he said, referring to the scenario promoted by Moscow of blaming the disaster on Kiev.
“Russia takes the attack to a new level”
Russia has taken its attack on Ukraine to a new level by destroying the Khakhov hydroelectric power plant in southern Ukraine, the head of European diplomacy has said. Joseph Borel.
“Russian attacks on Ukraine’s critical civilian infrastructure have reached an unprecedented level today in connection with the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam,” he said, adding: “The European Union condemns this attack in the strongest terms. This represents a new dimension of Russian atrocities and may constitute a violation of international law, especially international humanitarian law.”
“Russia is bombing the evacuation zone”
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine has accused Russia of shelling the area in Kherson, where civilians are being evacuated after the collapse of the Kakhovka dam.
Minister of Internal Affairs, Igor KlimenkoAccording to him, two police officers who worked in the area were injured. As he stated on Ukrainian television, about 1,000 people were evacuated, and 24 settlements were flooded by the dam.
He also warned of danger to mines due to rising water levels.
Major flood fears
Global Data Center for Geoinformatics and SustainabilityUkrainian non-governmental organization, estimates that approx. 100 villages and towns will be flooded.
He also calculated that the water level would only start to fall after 5-7 days.
The water level around the dam has already risen by five meters, according to the Russian state news agency RIA, according to which they are at risk of flooding. 14 settlements in Kherson and are under threat 22000 people that live in them.
“The dam is completely destroyed,” the Ukrainian state hydropower company said in a statement.
In the same time, Ukrhydroenergo claimed that Russia blew up the station from inside the engine room.
Seven hundred and forty-two people were evacuated from the Kherson region as of 10:00 local time after the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was blown up by Russian troops, the Interior Ministry said on June 6. 📸: Kherson regional military administration / Telegram pic.twitter.com/cSypEUVob6
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) June 6, 2023
Russia-backed governor of Crimea Sergei AksenovAccording to him, there is a risk of a drop in the water level in the North Crimean Canal, through which fresh water enters the peninsula.
There are still enough water supplies in Crimea, and the level of danger will be visible in the coming days.
A Russian official in the town of Novaya Kakhovka reported that residents of approx. 300 houses were removed, according to the state news agency TASS.
TASS also reported that the mayor of Nova Kakhovka, Vladimir Leonidevreported that electricity was cut off in part of the city for safety reasons.
“Reservoir level drops by 35 cm per hour”
The water level in the Kakhovka reservoir is decreasing by 35 cm at the time said Vladimir Rogovan appointed official in the Moscow-controlled part of the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine.
The Russian-appointed governor of the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine said that the level of the Kakhovka reservoir near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant fell 2.5 meters and is expected to drop to 7 metersaccording to TASS.
A breakthrough in the Kakhovka dam, which supplies cold water to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, has heightened concerns about accident at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
In addition, according to TASS, the Moscow-appointed mayor of the Ukrainian city of Novaya Kakhovka said that the water level in the city had reached 11 meters.
VIOLATION:
Russia just blew up the Kakhovka Dam (the same size as the Hoover Dam).
Water from the Kakhovka reservoir flows towards the city of Kherson.
Thousands of people are at risk of drowning, and the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is under threat.
Terrorism!pic.twitter.com/bwhyhARktL
— Visegrad 24 (@visegrad24) June 6, 2023
Source: Kathimerini
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