Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian military personnel blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station (HEPP) in southern Ukraine from inside the facility at night. Zelensky announced this on his Telegram channel.
“At 02:50, Russian terrorists carried out an internal explosion at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station,” he wrote.
Zelensky pointed out that currently about 80 settlements are in the flood zone.
Earlier, the deputy governor of the Kherson region, Volodymyr Saldo, stated that the Ukrainian troops why could it be a strike at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station to divert attention from the failures during the “counter-offensive”. He noted that the results of the attack should not affect the situation in the Kherson region too much.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for help from the heads of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR).
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.