Denis Pushilin, interim president of the Donetsk People’s Republic, believes that Ukraine may destroy the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, fearing that Russia may attack. stated that DEA News.
The Ukrainian leadership, in its opinion, decided that the damage from the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station would be less for Ukraine than for the Russian side, which would suffer “more significant” damage.
“Fearing some possible offensive actions on our part, I do not exclude that they decided to defend themselves in order to fully engage in a counterattack in other sectors of the front,” said Pushilin.
He also added that this is evidenced by the intensified actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in recent days.
7 June Russian President Vladimir Putin judicial The destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in a “barbaric act” that led to a great environmental and humanitarian disaster.
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.