There is no military purpose in mining the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station – the Dnieper will not stand for 5 days with an abnormally high water level. The spill of the Dnieper is a one-time action, perhaps only a water shock wave.
Military expert Petr Chernik told Channel 24 about this. He also noted that let's assume that the Russians still blew up the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station – the right bank is higher than the left, and our troops are on the right bank.
As soon as the wave subsides, then, according to Petr Chernik, nothing will stop us from launching artillery strikes on enemy positions again.
Such threats by Russians are a classic act of terrorism. The invaders are well aware that they will lose the Kherson region, so they are looking for a way out of this situation in a panic, – the expert notes.
According to the expert, the Russians have not come up with anything better than using weapons of mass destruction. “Therefore, I emphasize once again that there are no military goals in blowing up the hydroelectric power station, but only terrorism,” he sums up. h2>
The consequences of a dam failure could be catastrophic. We are talking about the flooding of the surrounding villages and even Kherson down the Dnieper, problems with cooling the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and water supply to the south of Ukraine.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba compared this to weapons of mass destruction. Allegedly, the consequences will be serious anyway.
In the event of an accident at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, all cities and villages that lie below the dam will either be flooded or completely flooded.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that more than 80 settlements, including Kherson, would be in the zone of rapid flooding, and hundreds of thousands of people could suffer.
He stressed that the undermining of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station would lead to a catastrophe with a huge number of human casualties, but this would harm the invaders – in particular, in the Crimea.
