The strikes, however, did not “not caused critical damage” on this strategic infrastructure, one of the largest dams in the country, which notably supplies the annexed Crimea.
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Tensions around the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam. The Russian occupation authorities accused Ukraine, Sunday, November 6, for having carried out strikes on this infrastructure located in the south of Ukraine and which supplies the Crimea in particular. According to Russian agencies, six missiles were launched, five were shot down by Russian air defenses and “one touched the sluice of the dam”. But this last n / A “did not cause critical damage”according to the representative of the administration installed by Moscow in Nova Kakhovka, the village where the dam is located, 60 km to the east as the crow flies from Cherson.
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The risk of strikes on this strategic infrastructure, developed along the Dnieper, has been brandished since October by Ukraine and Russia, the two accusing each other of endangering the lives of “thousands” of inhabitants. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow two weeks ago of having “mined the dam”one of the largest in Ukraine, “lies” swept away by the Russian occupation authorities.
Kherson threatened by floods
In recent days, the Russian occupation authorities have carried out in the villages located around the site of the “evacuations” of civilians facing a “possible missile attack” on the dam, the destruction of which would lead “the flooding of the left bank” of the Dnieper River, according to Vladimir Saldo, the regional governor installed by Moscow in Kherson.
If the dam explodes, “more than 80 localities, including Kherson, will find themselves in the zone of rapid flooding”had for his part alerted the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, on October 21. “It could destroy the water supply of a large part of southern Ukraine” and affect the cooling of the reactors of the Zaporijjia nuclear power plant, which draws its water from this artificial lake.