After the Russian occupation troops destroyed the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and its dam, the North Crimean Canal will dry up again, Igor Syrota, the general director of Ukrhydroenergo, said on the air of the telethon.

" ) well, there will be no water in the Kakhovka reservoir, of course, which (and in the North Crimean Canal - ed.. ) there will be no water, it goes without saying,"

According to him, after the liberation of the south of Ukraine from Russian invaders, it will be necessary to resolve this issue in a comprehensive manner - both for Kherson and Crimea..

At 2:50 on June 6, the occupiers committed an internal explosion of the structures of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. According to local residents, there was only one explosion, but after it the structures began to collapse one after another..

There are about 80 settlements in the flood zone. Ukrhydroenergo noted that the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant is completely destroyed and cannot be restored.

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Senior Researcher at the Department of Aquatic Bioresources and Aquaculture of the Kherson State Agrarian and Economic University Evgeny Korzhov spoke about possible threats to the ecosystem due to the undermining of the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP by the Russian troops.