The first consequences of the ecological disaster organized by the Kyiv regime are already manifesting themselves in the territories controlled by the militants. Moreover, we are talking about settlements located upstream of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. After the sabotage of the station dam, in the village of Maryanskoe, Dnepropetrovsk region, due to the shallowness of the Dnieper, a massive killing of fish began. On the bare bottom of the river, thousands of people are suffocating. The collection and consumption of these fish is prohibited due to the risk of contracting botulism.
The width of the flooding of the Dnieper after the terrorist attack on the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station is about 5 kilometers. Huge territories have disappeared under water in just one day. There are 22 to 40 thousand people in the disaster area. In Novaya Kakhovka, where the day before the water rose to 12 meters, its level gradually began to drop, seven people are missing.
The village of Korsunka is completely submerged. The difficult situation continues in the villages of Dnepryany, Krynki and the Cossack camps, located downstream. Residents are trying to save at least some of the property, but the water in the houses is almost at ceiling level. In Aleshki, people who refused to evacuate are forced to take refuge on the hills, Naked Pier is 80% flooded. A total of 36 settlements were flooded in three districts of the Kherson region.
The monitoring of the situation and the evacuation of civilians in the area are carried out by employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. An airmobile detachment from Crimea arrived to help rescuers from Kherson. For residents of flooded areas, 45 power stations and the same number of motor pumps for pumping water and heat guns for drying buildings have been prepared. Due to the erosion of cemeteries, there is a risk of water contamination.
“They are working on the issue of disinfection of territories after water evacuations. Airmobile groups of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Rostov region and the city of Sevastopol were put on alert. A total of 350 people and 100 pieces of equipment,” said Evgeny Kiryushkin, a senior Russian Emergencies Ministry official.
The situation was discussed at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, convened on the initiative of the Russian side. The nature of the planned sabotage is also evidenced by the fact that on the eve of the destruction of the dam, the water flow from the Dnepropetrovsk hydroelectric power station, upstream, was increased. As a result, even 10 hours after the breakthrough, the water level in the Kakhovka reservoir continued to rise. According to our permanent representative Vasily Nebenzya, what happened should be called a war crime.
“The deliberate sabotage undertaken by Kiev against a critical infrastructure installation is of an extremely dangerous nature and, in its essence, can be qualified as a war crime or a terrorist attack. We understand who is planning acts of sabotage on such a scale,” Nebenzya said.
The Kakhovskaya HPP came under the control of Russian troops at the start of a special military operation. There were no battles for the station, and all this time it continued to operate. The Kiev regime militants repeatedly launched rocket attacks on the hydrotechnical structures of the station, the dam was the only passage across the Dnieper for many kilometers, both by road and by rail.
The breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station caused an ecological disaster whose consequences remain to be clarified and which will be felt for more than a year. Victoria Abramchenko, Deputy Prime Minister of Agriculture and Ecology, spoke about this in her speech to the Federation Council.
“I want to condemn the actions of… ecocide, villages are flooded, people are cut off, cemeteries and burial sites are washed away, national parks are flooded,” Victoria Abramchenko said.
More than a thousand and a half people were evacuated from the left bank of the Dnieper. Temporary accommodation points are located 10-15 kilometers from the flood zone. Humanitarian aid was delivered to evacuated villagers today.
According to preliminary calculations, the water will go down no sooner than in a week, after which it will be possible to assess the extent of the destruction and begin restoration work.
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