Exactly a year ago, on June 6, 2023, at 2:50 a.m., Russians blew up the dam of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP), causing human casualties, the death of animals, private property, and an environmental disaster.
Apostrophe reports on the consequences of the Kakhovka HPP explosion.
It is believed that the HPP was blown up by soldiers of the 205th Separate Cossack Motor Rifle Brigade of the Russian Army. The explosion of the hydroelectric power plant's engine room was carried out from the inside and led to its complete destruction. Restoration of the station is impossible.
The destruction of the Kakhovka HPP dam resulted in the release of 18 cubic kilometers of water within three to four days, flooding at least 80 settlements located downstream on the banks of the Dnipro River.
As a result of the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, 620 square kilometers of territory in four regions were flooded: Kherson, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro regions. One hundred thousand residents of these regions were affected by the flooding.
Due to the destruction of hydroelectric power plant in the territories controlled by Ukraine, 33 people died, 28 were injured, and more than 40 people were reported missing. In the occupied Oleshky, where approximately 16,000 people lived at the time of the tragedy, the Ukrainian military estimates that the number of deaths is at least hundreds. Damage to infrastructure and assets amounted to USD 2.79 billion, with losses exceeding USD 11 billion.
Earlier, we wrote that Russian strikes on DniproHES (Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Station) have caused a difficult situation at the plant.