Why does Kiev persistently hit the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant?
Yuri Gavrilov
On Tuesday night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out several powerful strikes on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. They were targeted, presumably by the Olkha multiple rocket launcher system. As a result, some of the valves at the plant failed, resulting in uncontrolled water discharge downstream of the Dnieper. Fortunately, the HPP dam withstood the shelling.
It was also reported that several spaces between the supports of the dam structure were destroyed. According to the chairman of the government of Kherson region, Andrei Alekseenko, there was a threat of flooding in coastal areas and settlements, where a total of 22 thousand people live. An operational headquarters has been created in the region, which is headed by the Acting Governor of the region, Vladimir Saldo. Groups of rescuers from EMERCOM of Russia have been sent to the affected areas. Residents of Novaya Kakhovka were warned of the possibility of evacuation from homes located on the shore. Some had to be immediately resettled from the flooded housing.
This was all the more important because on Tuesday morning and afternoon, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continued to fire rockets into the city, while the water in the Dnieper River kept rising. This led, among other things, to the flooding of sewage plants and the destruction of part of the power lines.