Ukraine fears Putin’s men 'plan' to blow up Kakhovka hydro-electric dam; Russia's big warning

 

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Amid an intensifying battle in kherson , Kakhovka hydro-electric dam becomes focus . Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of planning to blow up dam on Dnipro river .

An attack on dam would unleash devastating flood across southern region of kherson .

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Significance Of The Kakhovka Dam

• 30 meters tall and 3.2 km long dam was built in 1956 on the Dnipro river as part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant .

• Holds an 18 km reservoir which supplies water to crimea annexed by Russia in 2014 and to Zapoeizhzhia nuclear plant  which is also under Russian control.

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• Destruction would add to Ukraine energy woes after weeks of Russian missiles strikes aimed at generation and grid facilities .

• As per report ,flooding after dam destruction would reach Kherson in two hours achieve high water in 14 hours and fall back to normal levels in 72 hours.

• Volume of water in the reservoir is about equal to the great salt lake in the US state of Utah .

Russian forces alleged that Ukrainian were preparing a massive strike on the dam . Sergei Surovikin the commander of the Russian forces in Ukraine said Kyiv was planning  massive missiles strike with US made himars on the strategic dam .

Ukrainian officials called allegation a sign that Moscow planned to attack and blame Kyiv . Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky said that Russia had mined the dam and was preparing to blow up it .A step he compared to the use of weapons of mass destructions .

Kirill Stremousov Russian-installed deputy head of annexed Kherson region said Kyiv allegation that Russia had mined the Kakhovka dam were false 

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