As a result of the collapse of the dam at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, one of the cemeteries was washed away, there is a threat of infection for the population. This was announced live by the head of the Novokahovsky district, Vladimir Leontiev. Channel One.
According to him, employees of the Ministry of Emergencies and other services are currently working on the spot. They took water samples for testing, chemical analyzes are still up to standard. However, bacteriological analysis is carried out no earlier than in a day. Artesian wells have also been discovered.
On the night of June 6, the upper part of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was destroyed in the Kherson region, near Novaya Kakhovka. Dozens of settlements began to flood, including Kherson and New Kakhovka.
Russia and Ukraine blame each other in the breaking of the dam. There is also a version that the accident occurred due to “old damage”. The Ukrhidroenergo company stated that the station was completely destroyed and cannot be restored.
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Russia Victoria Abramchenko in her speech at the Federation Council statedThat the “Kiev regime” carried out an environmental destruction in the Kherson district, which destroyed the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.