Putin ordered to blow up Kakhovka HPP, - Danilov
The Russian military blew up the Kakhovka HPP on June 6 at the behest of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, stated this, Censor.NET informs with links to RBC-Ukraine.
He noted that the Russians blew up the Kakhovka HPP with the explosives they laid in advance - in September-October 2022.
The secretary of the National Security Council believes that the detonation was carried out at the behest of Moscow.
"The command for this terrorist act was issued from the Kremlin, from Putin's office. Such instructions are not given at other levels. This is not the level of a battalion, a division, it is not even the level of a situation related to Shoigu," he said.
Danilov also stated that the occupiers blew up the dam because they were expecting a Ukrainian counteroffensive. In addition, before detonation, they raised the water level at the Kakhovka HPP.
"They are all expecting our counterattack. Moreover, they raised the (water) level as much as possible. It was 18.16 meters, they raised it more than 19 meters. They deliberately accumulated to create more damage during the detonation," he added.
As Censor.NET reported, on the morning of 6 June, it became known that the Russian occupiers had blown up the Kakhovka HPP. The explosion completely destroyed the engine room, and the station is beyond repair.
Evacuations have begun in the region. As many as 80 settlements could be flooded. A total of 16,000 people are in the critical zone on the right bank of the Dnipro.
The explosion of the Kakhovka HPP threatens the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP, but the situation is now under control. The explosion could also cause an imbalance in Ukraine's energy system. Fields in southern Ukraine could turn into deserts.
The explosion released 150 tonnes of oil into the Dnipro River. A hydroelectric power station in Nova Kakhovka was flooded by the explosion, killing almost all the animals.
President Volodymyr Zelensky held an emergency meeting of the National Security and Defence Council, which ordered evacuations from the risk areas.
According to Ukrainian intelligence, no one but Russia had the technical capability to blow up the hydroelectric power station. The Ministry of Defence reminds us that the Russians had been carefully preparing for the attack. According to US media reports, US intelligence has data confirming Russia's guilt in the explosion.
The Kremlin claims that the Russians were not involved in the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station and puts the blame on the Ukrainians.
