At night, the water level in Novaya Kakhovka began to drop. “The water at this time, at 08:35, has fallen half a meter from the highest point (peak figures have reached 11 meters – ‘RG’ rating). This is a positive trend,” said said Leontyev. The day before, drinking water was supplied to the city.
According to him, the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and the subsequent uncontrolled dumping of water became an act of “environmental genocide”. “Great damage will and has already been done to the environment. This includes environmental genocide,” said the mayor of Nova Kakhovka.
According to the chairman of the “We are with Russia” movement Vladimir Rogov, the Kakhovka reservoir could cease to exist in two or three days. “According to hydrographic experts, it is expected that today there will be a maximum level of water discharge from the Kakhovka reservoir under the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region, everything should subside from June 10. By June 20, as water goes into the Black Sea, a new natural channel of the Dnieper will appear, but without the Kakhovka reservoir. It will simply disappear,” said he declared. According to Rogov, in the city of Zaporizhzhia, at this time, the water has receded 30 meters from the shore. The water level in the Dnieper can be reduced by 7.5 meters.
As the acting governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, for his part, said, the level of the Kakhovka reservoir has already fallen by more than 3.5 meters. Between 22,000 and 40,000 people were in the disaster area, he said on the Soloviev Live TV channel. Saldo also drew attention to the fact that the Ukrainian armed forces continued to strike the affected areas.
“But it was untargeted fire – artillery and mortar. The strikes did virtually no harm except to some gardens, buildings, etc.,” the acting governor said. Saldo assured that as soon as the water disappears, the authorities will start disinfecting the territories in order to prevent infectious diseases. The fact is that as a result of the flooding of settlements many animals died – both domestic and wild. According to him, the situation remains tense, but totally under control.
Earlier, Saldo also said authorities in the region were required to remove children from flooded settlements below the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. “We send them to the sea to good holiday camps – to our house, to the territory of the Kherson region or to the Crimea. Our neighbors help us in every possible way,” he said.
According to the latest data, more than 1.2 thousand residents of the coastal settlements of the Kherson region were evacuated.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik Radio that Moscow wants to hear a clear answer from the UN on what has been done regarding the situation at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. over the past seven months. The diplomat drew attention to the fact that in October, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, sent a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, urging him to take all possible measures to prevent a crime at Kakhovka station.
She called for a response to what had been done, and if nothing had been done, to acknowledge that fact. In this case, there can be no situation where the UN representatives would say that they “didn’t notice, don’t know, don’t have information”, since the call was sent by an official letter distributed to the Security Council and published on the website.
Zakharova also noted that the West’s reaction was predictable. “It’s an endless desire to blame Russia for everything that happens, whether it actually happened or is a figment of the imagination,” she said. According to her, this is part of the information-psychological warfare.
“The endless chaining of everything that happens inside their country, outside, along the perimeter with our country in order to maintain within their own population, in Western countries, a hysterical attitude towards the situation around Russia, towards Russia as a whole. They need to allocate huge sums of money, it is necessary to explain to the population why these sums are allocated,” Zakharova said.
The very destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station at the Russian Foreign Ministry was called a pre-planned terrorist act, directed against the infrastructure for purely civilian purposes. “The Kiev regime not only subjected the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station to massive shelling, but also deliberately brought the water level in the Kakhovka reservoir to a critical level by opening the valves of the Dnepropetrovsk hydroelectric power station”, they recalled in Smolenskaya Square.
“We call on the world community to condemn the criminal acts of the Ukrainian authorities, which are increasingly inhumane and pose a serious threat to regional and global security,” the Foreign Ministry said. “The Russian side initiates consideration of this crime of the Kiev regime in the UN Security Council, the statutory and decision-making bodies of the OSCE and other international organizations,” the diplomatic department added.
As the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasily Nebenzya noted, the world organization, in connection with the investigation of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, should not repeat mistakes, as in the case of the Ukrainian provocation at Bucha and the weakening of the Nord Streams. He called the explosion of the hydroelectric plant an “unthinkable crime”. “We assume that the Kiev regime and the Western bosses who pump it with weapons bear full responsibility for the unfolding tragedy,” Nebenzya said. According to him, the attack on the hydroelectric power station could also be an attempt to provoke the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhya, as well as an attempt to leave the Crimean peninsula without water.
“We are already seeing a coordinated information campaign, or rather disinformation, we are hearing statements coming from the West and, of course, from Kiev, that Russia has blown up the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station” , Nebenzya said. According to him, “these statements are in the spirit of that faulty logic which attributes to the Russian Federation the self-de-stringing of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant or the undermining of Nord Streams.” “Such ‘conclusions’ reek of schizophrenia. Perhaps not even latent,” the diplomat said.
Meanwhile, the well-known American television journalist Tucker Carlson, in the first edition of his author’s show, pointed to the probable responsibility of Kiev for undermining the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, calling this blow, s It was not an accident, an act of terrorism. Carlson recalled that Kyiv had previously drawn up plans to undermine this power plant.
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