The Russian propaganda publication Izvestia has published a video of the blowing up of a road bridge that leads to the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region.
The American company Maxar on November 11 published satellite images of the bridge at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and the Darevsky bridge across the Ingulets River. According to the pictures, several spans of the bridge at the hydroelectric power plant are missing. The CNN TV channel reported that the dam across the Dnieper was damaged, water flows out of three sluice gates. According to the channel, the latest explosions on the dam occurred on November 10 after the retreat of Russian troops.
During the Russian retreat, the Antonovsky bridge was also blown up. The pro-Russian military commander Alexander Kots claimed that there were no Russian military left on the right bank, which means that the main group left long before the order of Sergei Shoigu and the subsequent undermining of the bridge. Also, before the entrance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to Kherson, the Tyaginsky, Darevsky and Novovasilyevsky bridges were blown up, the propaganda military commander Yuriy Kotenok reported .
Military analysts argued that after the liberation of the right bank by the Ukrainians, the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and the hydraulic structures of the North Crimean Canal were in the affected area of the HIMARS MLRS. However, the destruction of the hydroelectric power station is not beneficial to anyone: in the event of an explosion, Crimea will lose its water supply, since the dam regulates the level in the Dnieper and ensures the filling of the North Crimean Canal. In addition, the destruction of the hydroelectric power plant threatens to flood several dozen settlements. At present, the HPP remains under Russian control.
On November 9, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, and the commander of the Russian group in Ukraine, Sergei Surovikin, instructed to withdraw troops across the Dnieper River. On November 11, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced the return of control over Kherson. The representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, said that "about five thousand units of military equipment, as well as material property" were transferred to the left bank of the Dnieper. In the summary, he called the retreat from Kherson "coordinated actions of Russian units." This led to the actions of the command, which Konashenkov called "effective management."
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