Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar said that Russian troops purposefully blew up the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in order to suspend the process of de-occupation and shift the vector of public attention to what is happening in the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation.

" Now the civilians of the temporarily occupied settlements of the Kherson region and Crimea are in a critical situation, since the destruction of the dam deprived them of fresh water,"

According to her, the flooding of the positions of the Russian troops can lead to a large-scale washout of minefields and their detonation in a chaotic manner..

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The invaders at 2:

50 on June 6 committed an internal explosion of the structures of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.

The undermining of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station is a hysterical reaction of the enemy to the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since the enemy is tired of waiting for a counteroffensive. The actions of the occupiers to undermine the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station are hardly a balanced and well-thought-out strategy, said Natalia Gumenyuk, head of the joint coordination press center of the defense forces of southern Ukraine.