MOSCOW, June 11 Forty-six settlements remain flooded in the part of the Kherson region controlled by Kiev, Viktor Vitovetsky, director of the department for organizing civil protection measures of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (GSChS), said on Sunday on the Rada TV channel.
“The situation is as follows: now 46 settlements of Kherson region, this is more than 3800 households. Unfortunately, we have 10 injured, including 3 employees of the national police and 2 State Emergency Service and 6 dead,» Vitovetsky said.
On the night of June 6, Ukrainian troops launched a series of attacks on the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, 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 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 Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in order to transfer troops to the area of its offensive operations from the Kherson direction, weakening its 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 plant is the sixth (lower and last) stage of the cascade of Dnieper hydroelectric power plants, located five kilometers from the city of Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region, which became part of Russia following a referendum on September 30, 2022.