The hydroelectric power plants of Ukraine managed to increase the production of electricity and replenish the country's energy system with the resource due to the anomalous melt-rain flood that is observed, Ukrhydroenergo reported..

The company clarified that such a phenomenon is rare for lowland rivers and is observed once every tens of years..

Winter flood recorded in the basins of the Dnieper, Sozha, Pripyat. This list also includes Desna, for which this is a record high water..

The water level has risen to its highest level in 129 years..

It is clarified that this is due to the unstable hydrological situation in January, which was characterized by alternating periods of warming and cooling.. The melting of the snow cover, freezing and thawing of the soil also affected.

A high inflow of the Kyiv reservoir was also observed in January 1999 and 2018. , and Kanevsky - in January 1981 and 2018.

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