Authorities imposed by Russia in Nova Kahovka They declared a state of emergency on Tuesday after the upper structure of the dam in this Ukrainian city burst and partially flooded the area.
According to emergency service information, nearby of 600 houses they are already flooded in the New Kakhovka district.
The water level at Nova Kahovka, which has been occupied by Russia for more than 15 months, currently rises to more than 10 meters, although it could rise to 12.5 meters in the area of the hydroelectric plant.
The rupture of the dam, for which Ukraine and Russia accuse each other, is having an effect currently at 14 locations, in which 22,000 people live, said the president of the government imposed by Moscow in the Kherson region, Andrey Alekseenko.
The Kahovka hydropower plant, the fifth in Ukraine, has a power of 334.8 megawatts. The Kajovka reservoir, built in the 1950s, held 18 million cubic meters of water before Tuesday’s disaster.
Consequences of blowing up the dam Coffee shop this morning by Russian forces in the south of the country will become apparent within a week.
“There will be big problems with drinking water, even where there are no floods. In the entire region, both in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporozhye, as well as in Kherson,” Zelensky said at a press conference in Kyiv, as reported by the Ukrinform agency.
“We will be able to understand the consequences of the tragedy in about a week. When the waters recede, it will be clear what is left (in the devastated areas) and what will happen next,” he added.
According to Kiev, it was Russia that destroyed the dam to stop the Ukrainian counter-offensive.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today attributed the destruction of the New Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant to “internal detonation” caused by Russian troops, the spill of which flooded numerous municipalities and forced the evacuation of thousands of people in southern Ukraine.
Zelenski also called for drinking water to be provided “to all cities and towns” it depended on the destroyed dam.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also said Tuesday that blowing up the dam was proof of the “brutality of Russia’s war in Ukraine.”
Source: Panama America
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