The Ukrainian operational command "South" said that Russian troops blew up the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. The Russian-appointed "mayor" of the occupied Nova Kakhovka, Vladimir Leontiev, reported that "at about two in the morning a number of numerous attacks were carried out on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station." Whose – does not say.
The head of the Kherson regional military administration, Alexander Prokudin, said the water would reach a "critical level" in five hours. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is holding an emergency meeting of the National Security Council.
The dam is located from Kherson upstream of the Dnieper near the mouth of the North Crimean Canal. The explosion of the dam may affect the water supply of the occupied Crimea.
The news will be updated as information becomes available.