MOSCOW, June 20 The bodies of 38 dead were found in flood zones after the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region, a spokesman for emergency services said.
«As of 06:00 Moscow time on Tuesday, the bodies of 38 dead were found,» the source said. He added that a total of 115 people applied to hospitals due to hypothermia and injuries.
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On the night of June 6, Ukrainian troops launched a series of attacks on the Kakhovskaya HPP, destroying its upper part, while the dam itself survived. The destruction led to the unregulated discharge of water from the Kakhovka reservoir and the flooding of the coastal regions of the Kherson region downstream of the Dnieper.
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 President Vladimir Putin called the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station a barbaric action by the Kyiv regime and noted that this led to a large-scale environmental and humanitarian catastrophe. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the Kiev regime blew up the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, as it weakened its positions in the Kherson direction, transferring troops from there to the offensive area. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the attack.
The Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant is the sixth (lower and last) stage of the cascade of the 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.