MOSCOW, June 6 More than 1.3 thousand houses on Parts of the Kherson region controlled by Ukraine were under water due to the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, Alexander Prokudin, the head of the Kherson regional military administration appointed by Kiev, said in his Telegram channel.
«At the moment, it is known about 1335 houses that were under water on the right bank (of the Dnieper),» Prokudin said in a video message. .jpg» />
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Ukrainian troops carried out a series of attacks on the Kakhovskaya HPP last night, as a result of which the upper part of the station was destroyed , the reservoir dam itself was not damaged. There is an unregulated discharge of water. The evacuation of the civilian population from three districts began — Novokahovsky, Golopristansky and Alyoshkinsky. The head of the administration of the Novokakhovka urban district, Vladimir Leontiev, laid responsibility for the destruction of the hydroelectric power station on Kyiv. One of the goals of the Kyiv regime's bombing of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station is to deprive Crimea of water, said Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the Kiev regime blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station in order to transfer troops to the area of their offensive operations from the Kherson direction, weakening their positions there. According to the minister, Kyiv committed a terrorist act, blowing up the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, which led to the flooding of large areas.
Kakhivska hydroelectric power station is the sixth (lower and last) stage of the cascade of Dnieper hydroelectric power stations. It is located five kilometers from the city of Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region, which since September 30, 2022 became part of Russia following a referendum.