The Kakhovka hydroelectric dam is likely to be further destroyed over the next few days, leading to additional flooding of areas down the Dnieper, UK Defense Intelligence Agency analysts say.

Experts recall that the water level in the Kakhovka reservoir before the breakthrough was record high, which led to the flooding of the territory downstream with a particularly large volume of water.

“At the same time, the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant is unlikely to face immediate additional safety issues due to a drop in water levels in the reservoir,” analysts said..

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Recall that on the night of June 6, the Russian military blew up a dam at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. Due to the Russian terrorist attack, about 80 settlements are located in the flood zone on both banks of the Dnieper.

However, the occupied left bank of the region will be more affected.

President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed that it is physically impossible to blow up the Kakhovka HPP from the outside. Russia has been keeping the dam under control for more than a year, mined it a long time ago and finally blew it up, which once again proved that it is a terrorist state. According to him, the invaders acted chaotically, so they sank their own equipment..

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