Flooding in the Kherson region of Ukraine after the breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP
Posted on 06/06/2023 8:54:33 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
On the morning of June 6, in the Kherson region, it became known about the breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP. Kiev blamed Russia for the explosion of the hydroelectric power station, Russia stated that the reason for the dam break was allegedly the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (while local residents, including those who lived close to the dam, did not report anything about the shelling).
MAIN TOPIC: the breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP in the Kherson region. What has already been flooded, how could it happen and what will be the consequences
[Photos and VIDEO at Link]
Due to the break of the dam, water from the Kakhovsky reservoir went along the Dnieper, flooding coastal villages. Within a few hours, Novaya Kakhovka, where the dam was located, was completely flooded. In Kherson, which is under the control of Kiev, an evacuation was announced, and a few hours later the occupation authorities, who control the territory on the left bank of the Dnieper, did the same. Representatives of the administration of the President of Ukraine Zelensky said that as a result of the break of the dam, more than 80 settlements of the Kherson region were destroyed and damaged, the regional biosystem of the southern delta of the Dnieper, as well as the Black Sea region, was damaged or completely destroyed, and in addition, the irrigation system in the south of Ukraine and the water supply infrastructure of the occupied Crimea were destroyed.
The correspondent of the Present Time Alexey Prodayvoda spoke with Sergey and Anastasia Rybalchenko, volunteers from Kherson, who from early morning, even before the official announcement, helped evacuate residents of the private sector in the suburbs. They managed to make five “flights” there and back, and each time, according to them, it was more difficult and more dangerous to make their way through the streets – not only because of the incoming water, but also because the Russian military opened fire several times on those who tried to evacuate.
Sergey and Anastasia separately say that before what happened at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, the Russian military heavily mined the left bank of the Dnieper. And all the mines and tripwires installed by them were simply demolished by the flood to Kherson and the surrounding villages, and this poses a great danger to local residents.
PLEASE TELL US how you found out about what happened at the Kakhovskaya HPP, and how you realized that you had to leave?
Sergey: Our morning started at five-thirty: they said that the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station had been blown up and that water had gone.
First of all, we called all the friends who are in the coastal zone, asked who needed help. Everyone initially said: yes, there is a little bit of water. People strongly did not believe that there would be (a flood).
We jumped into the car and immediately drove to the Neftegavan area of Kherson, it is completely on the water. When we drove there, it was already an hour or a little more after the explosion. There was already water in people’s vegetable gardens, and the streets were still dry.
We left, I went to make the second trip. And at this time, water was already beginning to run into the streets – a small layer. When I made my third trip there, to Neftegavan, I was still able to drive the car a little bit into the streets of the district themselves. And the fourth and fifth trips – I just stayed only on the main street, because it was already impossible to go further, the water was knee-deep. The last, fifth time, the water was already above the knee.
“A very serious man-made disaster.” The representative of the Kherson regional Council – about the breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP
We were taking people away. Many people did not want to evacuate with the words: “This is my home, I will be here! Why?”
That is, Nastya and I really persuaded people together! They were able to persuade and took out a total of four families. Then they made trips already for dogs. People said the addresses where the dogs stayed, and we took the dogs out.
– IS IT TRUE that the Russian military fired on those who tried to evacuate from Kherson?
Anastasia: This is the saddest thing! We made the first trip, we left the Island, Neftegavani, at fifteen to seven in the morning. And at that moment they started launching mines! That is, people are going to pick up their property, take themselves out, animals. And they are figachat mines!
Sergey: Yes, they fired at us, several arrivals were a little far, 300 meters from us, maybe a little more. Because we only heard and saw the smoke. But there were several nearby: fragments were falling near us. And they started hitting the village itself.
Anastasia: On the last trip, Sergey miraculously survived, because they dropped grenades from drones! And the grenades exploded over them!
Sergey: Yes, the guys and I did the last walk, and it was just unreal: the central street was already flooded. After that, I was still pulling out cars that had sunk. And they threw two grenades from the drones, one exploded in the villages in the distance, and one exploded right in the branches 4-5 meters above our head, exactly above our head.
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We were saved by a tree, a poplar. Because shrapnel flew around us. There was a car nearby – the windshield was broken in it, there were two hits. And we just miraculously got through! I was with two guys, we were just at that moment loading a dog, a labrador, into the car. The owners were taken out, and then they returned for the dog. We just miraculously survived.
– DO I UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY that the Russian military saw from the left bank that people were being evacuated, fleeing from the water, saw that these were peaceful people, not military, civilian vehicles? And they purposefully specifically fired at these vehicles?
Sergey: Yes, that’s right, in the truest sense of the word. That is, all cars are civilian. There, of course, is the police, controls the exit, how and what, everything is hidden under trees, etc. And they launched a drone. We were standing in an open area at the turn, unloaded. And as the drone flew by, he dropped the grenade at that moment. We were just lucky that they were crooked-armed: they threw from a great height and threw, let’s say, a little to the right of us and hit not us, but a tree. The tree saved us! This is by drone. And in the morning they worked with a mortar – just on people who were evacuated.
– What is happening now on the streets of the area from where you took people? Is there anyone left there now? What is going on in the coastal areas of Kherson at the moment? Is there an evacuation going on, does someone else need help?
Sergey: From what we know, and what I personally saw: neither I, nor the police, nor the military were able to persuade several families to leave. They said: we have a three-storey house, and we will stay on the third floor in the house.
I was able to persuade the other family: they also did not want to leave, they said they would be in their attic. I went into their yard – they live right near the lake: if there was 15 centimeters of water on the street, then they already had knee-deep water in their yard. I barely persuaded them to leave! We just took them away. That is, the police talked to them – they didn’t want to leave, and somehow it was really difficult for me, but I managed to persuade them, and I took them away. Family, husband and wife aged, and their neighbor, a man of 45 years.
Anastasia: They probably didn’t even start taking any actions regarding the evacuation of the population, etc., until eight in the morning, no one at all.
Sergei: Well, the police have already gone.
Anastasia: We saw two cars at seven in the morning, but it all started massively only after eight in the morning: some buses, somewhere something began to organize. In Antonovka, near the Antonovsky Bridge, the stadium was also partially flooded, houses were flooded. That is, where my husband went, repaired roofs, windows, etc., on the water, there are no even tops visible at the houses.
Sergei: What was the last thing I saw when I left: according to how I know the bridge and the coastal area, the water rose by about 3.5-4 meters. This is at the moment when I was making my last trip. That is, I have been driving only on water for the entire Neftegavan. The whole area, the entire central road – everything is completely on the water.
– WHAT TIME WAS THAT? IS THE WATER STILL COMING NOW?
Sergey: The water was still coming. I returned at 11 o’clock, and the water was still coming at full speed. When you walk along the street, not along the central one, but along any side, then you see how the fence from the profiled sheet simply breaks the current. That is, there is a big current and breaks the fence, breaks the gate. You pass near some intersection, take a step, and the stream just blows you away! Plus, you walk knee-deep and more in the water, and you just start to drift, that is, a huge current is flowing.
– WHAT ARE YOUR FORECASTS: when will the water finish coming and when will it recede? What do you see on the spot, what do the services say? Maybe you talked to some of the guys there, with the deesenes?
Anastasia: Well, as for the forecasts, the first, most obvious thing is that Kherson will remain without any communications, light and water. There is no tap water in the city anymore, because all the pumping stations of the Gorvodokanal were located near the water. Therefore, if there is water in the city somewhere, it is already remnants. The lights are also turned off in places.
Regarding the water level: according to forecasts, it was generally that at 11 o’clock in the afternoon there should be a peak height of this water. But at the moment there is still an addition and an addition.
Sergey: The old rules of emergency regulations say: if something happens, then theoretically within 6-8 hours the water arrives, then 72 hours the water stands, the level is leveled, and after that it begins to recede.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/M1pn_V09Z-4
Judging by the video, the dam was blown up somewhere from the middle to the very bottom, that is, not the top some meter or two, but a really huge hole was made, which is why a huge stream of water went. I understand that a lot of explosives were planted there, a lot, in order to destroy such power.
Anastasia: Now the most terrible thing is that water flows not only wash out and destroy houses, now a lot more mines are being washed out of the ground, etc. And everywhere along the coastal zone there is a detonation of mines!
Sergey: Over the past few months, there has been information that Russian troops are very tightly mining the coast, the entire coastal zone of the left bank – both on land and on water, they put tripwires on reeds, trees, as well as water mines, etc. Now, due to the large flow of water on the left side of the shore, it all went in all directions, to Kherson, down through the villages, into the Dnieper estuary, etc. A huge amount of all this has gone there, and it is now starting to detonate in the course of the action.
Anastasia: Well, accordingly, the districts of the city, such as Voenka (Kherson), Rechport, our embankment – not only are they under water, so we are still waiting for the detonation!
Sergey: And the consequences of all this.
– REGARDING THE SHELLING OF KHERSON. Do you think they will subside due to the fact that the left bank and the positions of the Russian military were also flooded?
Sergei: We just wrote an interview with you, I don’t know if it was heard in the background or not, but there was a whistle – something was flying, and not from us, but in us.
Anastasia: So that you understand: on this night, on the night of the explosion of the Kakhovskaya HPP, they also shelled the city with whatever they could. The center was shelled, residential buildings were shelled.
Sergey: They started at one-thirty in the morning. The first arrivals were incendiary, they were in the far region – Northern, Tauride. And after that, they began to work from a mortar in all other districts of the city. That is, practically nothing flew into one district, there was nothing there, and all the other districts of the city were under heavy shelling, and there was a lot of destruction. I just went yesterday already on applications: people called who needed help with roofs, windows. The whole Northern one was strewn with these “lighters”, what is flying apart.
Anastasia: I am more than sure that they will continue to fire and they will continue even more intensely. Kherson will still suffer and suffer, unfortunately.
Flooding in the Kherson region of Ukraine after the breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP
The Russians say the Ukrainians blew up the dam. The Ukrainians say the Russians did it.
Both have benefits from the event and both have incurred harm from the event.
I’ll posit another possible cause for the dam failure and that’s a lack of maintenance over the past decade of war. It may have simply failed.
Sergei Surovikin, the commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, alleged on Tuesday he had information that Ukrainian forces were preparing a massive strike on the dam.
Around 80 settlements were in danger of flooding, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, ordering a mass evacuation from risk areas.
Ukrainian officials said the allegation was a sign that Moscow planned to attack the dam and blame Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Russia had mined the dam and was preparing to blow it, a step compared to the use of weapons of mass destruction.
“I informed the Europeans today, during the meeting of the European Council, about the next terrorist attack, which Russia is preparing for at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant” he said. “Destroying the dam would mean a large-scale disaster.” “Russia has detonated a bomb of mass environmental destruction calling it “the largest man-made environmental disaster in Europe in decades.”
Zelenskyy called the Kremlin “the most dangerous terrorist in the world that needed to face “strict accountability.”
“It is physically impossible to blow it up somehow from the outside, by shelling,” Zelenskyy responded to Russian claims that Ukraine had done so. “It was mined by the Russian occupiers. And they blew it up.”
Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said the destruction of the dam was a “carefully planned act of terrorism” and a “global ecological disaster.”
Podolyak said “The terrorists’ goal is obvious — to create obstacles for the offensive actions of the armed forces.”
NUCLEAR PLANT RISKS
Destruction of the dam, which holds water equal to the Great Salt Lake in the United States, could have a catastrophic impact on local communities and the environment.
Built in 1956, the Soviet-era dam is 30 yards tall and 2 miles long built on the river as part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. Water from the reservoir helps cool the nearby Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant as well as supplies drinking water to Russian-occupied Crimea.
Ukraine’s state energy company, Energoatom, said that the dam breach could have “negative consequences” for the nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, but that the situation was still under control.
Kakhovka Dam (Digital art by © Neivanmade)
Look for the same tactics to be used on Americans by our own government.
The preponderance of evidence so far leans towards Russia blowing the dam.
1. People nearby the dam do not report hearing artillery.
2. No one heard or saw Ukrainian jets.
3. The Russians had exclusive control of the facility and had the access to place demolition charges inside the dam.
It’s too soon to say ‘Russia did it’ but at this point that’s what would appear to be the logical assessment.
Looking at photos and video, it certainly doesn’t look like an accident.
The hydro power plant diversion channel (where water passes through the turbines) was also destroyed, and there is water rushing through that too.
This demolition was thorough and deliberate.
“Look for the same tactics to be used on Americans by our own government.”
Already been done.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/us/03levee.html
There’s footage on Telegram of Russian soldiers boasting that they’d been mining the dam.
There’s also footage on Telegram of Russian commentators announcing that the explosions were as a result of Russian activity.
Separately there’s chatter to the effect of, Ukraine was going to “attack the dam” so the Russians blew up the road.
It’s all a bit confusing but Russian narratives flipped after an hour or two.
Suddenly, they stopped saying THEY did it and started blaming Ukraine.
My guess is, Russia thought Ukraine was going to take the dam, set off some explosives to block the road, and inadvertently set off enough explosives beneath the surface to crack the dam.
Seismographs in Eastern Europe picked up a massive tremor early this morning. A surface detonation can’t explain that. That dam didn’t just break up from the road down.
To bust a dam open like that, the explosion needed to be below surface.
The only think they left out was to have drones drop grenades and snippers waiting to ambush evacuees.
“Maybe it was these guys?”
Nah, doesn’t even look Ruzzian 🤣
“There’s footage on Telegram of Russian soldiers boasting that they’d been mining the dam.
There’s also footage on Telegram of Russian commentators announcing that the explosions were as a result of Russian activity.”
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Like the gas pipeline ....
follow the $$ who benefits?
Why doesn’t the MSM focus on the environmentalists in the story? The environmentalists must be happy. It has to help some frog, fish or worm.
Who controls the land around the dam?
If it is Russia, then there’s’ no way the UA can sneak sappers in to lay charges on the dam without the Russians knowing, or, as a minimum, removing them.
Thanks UMCRevMom@aol.com.
Great movie. Used to live down the road from where they trained.
you trolls post nothing but propaganda ..
Go get a life!
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today’s update from mil summary
ukes lost 16 tanks on the first day and have been pushed back from the villages they originally captuerd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp1I55f-iHk
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i dunno who blew it but ask who benefits??
here’s a video of water rushing thru since u forgot to include one
https://rumble.com/v2scs8m-video-purportedly-shows-breach-of-dam-at-ukraines-kakhovka-hydroelectric-po.html
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