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On Thursday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused the Russians of doing so ” my king “ The dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. Located in the occupied Kherson (south) region, it allows, among other things, to supply Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014. The dam and the power plant have been captured by Russian forces since the beginning of their invasion. Ukraine on February 24.

Built on the Dnieper River, the building was built in 1956, it has a height of 16 meters and a length of 3850 meters. It is one of the largest infrastructures of this type in Ukraine. According to the website of the Ukrainian operating company Ukrhydroenergo, the hydroelectric power plant has a capacity of 334.8 MW. The source of the work is the Kakhovka Reservoir, an artificial reservoir of water formed on the course of the Dnieper, 240 kilometers long and up to 23 kilometers wide.

About 60 kilometers to the east is Kakhovka where the crow soars in Kherson, the first major city to fall into Russian hands in March. The front is about forty kilometers to the north.

If the dam burst, “More than eighty towns, including Kherson, will find themselves in the area of ​​flash floods”Mr. Zelensky was upset before the Council of the European Union (EU). “It could destroy the water supply in much of southern Ukraine” And it affects the cooling of the reactors of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which draws its water from this artificial lake with an area of ​​\u200b\u200b18 million cubic meters.

For their part, the Russian occupation authorities in Kherson denied any mining of the dam, deploring it “lies” President Zelensky.