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Consequences of the destruction of the Kakhovskaya HPP
2023-06-11
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from the Telegram account of rybar

[ColonelCassad] The destruction of the Kakhovskaya HPP: what is known by the end of June 10

It is the fourth day since the destruction of the Kakhovskaya HPP. The situation in the region remains difficult, but already relatively more controllable.

In Aleshki, the water level dropped by two meters, in Golaya Pristan - by one. In Novaya Kakhovka, the water is almost gone and the authorities have already started cleaning the streets. Electricity is supplied to most of the settlements.

Russian hydropower companies believe that the Dnieper will return to its usual course below the destroyed hydroelectric power station by June 16.

More than 6,000 people have already been evacuated from the flood zone. The EMERCOM of the Russian Federation, Russian servicemen and volunteers from various public associations are involved in rescue work.

Nearly 2,000 people have been settled in temporary accommodation facilities.

▪️According to the latest estimates, the damage from the destruction of the dam at the hydroelectric power station amounted to about 11.5 billion rubles. More than 60% of the volume of water has already flowed out of the Kakhovka reservoir.

▪️Meanwhile, the authorities have created a special commission to eliminate the consequences of the flood, it will be headed by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin.

The head of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Murashko, in turn, said that there were no problems with the delivery of medicines to the Kherson region.

▪️Residents of the Zaporozhye region published a video showing that part of the Dnieper became shallow and dried up. In the future, this may threaten the deterioration of the ecological situation in the region.

▪️At the same time, the disaster that befell the residents of the Kherson region did not become an obstacle to the ongoing shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - today the enemy hit ( https://t.me/rybar/48341?single) in the south of the region, where the accommodation facilities for the victims are located.

https://t.me/rybar/48354 - zinc

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