Archiv: Nova Kakhovka Dam sabotage 06-06-2023


08.06.2023 - 02:50 [ Moon of Alabama ]

Nova Kakhova Dam Breach – Updated (12:15 UTC)

(06.06.2023)

In consequence the huge reservoir behind the dam is now flooding lower level land south of Kherson (Xepcoh). The pictures show the before and after of potential flooding due to the breach:

Previously the Russian army had pulled back its troops from the northern part of Kherson oblast because a dam breach would endanger their supply route.

We do not know yet how much of the dam has been damaged. How much water will be flowing out of it depends on the part of the wall that is still standing below the current water level.

Of note is that the Ukraine had previously filled the upstream dams on the Dnieper to the brim to increase the potential damage. Those waters were released in early May.

08.06.2023 - 02:35 [ @200_zoka / Nitter ]

Water level in Kakhovka reservoir in Zaporozhye region risen by 17 m and almost reached critical level. Under threat of destruction of dam in Kamenka Dneprovskaya, dozens of villages may be flooded. Kyiv opened the floodgates in Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye.

(May 4 2023)

Dam in Nova Kahovka cannot be opened due to damage and front line. So likely that it will burst in some moment and flood a good part of Herson

08.06.2023 - 02:34 [ MoscowTimes.com ]

Explainer: Could Ukraine’s Kakhovka Dam Be Destroyed in Russia’s Kherson Retreat?

(Nov. 30, 2022)

Russian state media reported Sunday that the dam had been damaged in a Ukrainian strike using U.S.-supplied HIMARS missiles, but the claim could not be independently verified.

08.06.2023 - 02:11 [ Washington Post ]

Inside the Ukrainian counteroffensive that shocked Putin and reshaped the war

(December 29, 2022)

Kovalchuk considered flooding the river. The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages.

The test was a success, Kovalchuk said, but the step remained a last resort. He held off.

08.06.2023 - 02:04 [ Dagny Taggart / Nitter ]

What was done? — Maria Zakharova published a document dated October 21, 2022, when Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, sent a letter to the UN Secretary General about the plans of the Kiev regime to destroy the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.

(06.06.2023)

07.06.2023 - 11:15 [ South China Morning Post ]

Ukraine war: international alarm grows after Nova Kakhovka dam destroyed

The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on Tuesday following requests from Russia and Ukraine.

06.06.2023 - 09:45 [ RTI.ie ]

Dam supplying water to Crimea blown up in southern Ukraine

It also supplies water to the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014, and to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which is also under Russian control.

Moscow-installed officials said there was no danger yet to the plant, Europe‘s largest nuclear power plant, from the destruction of the dam. The nuclear power station gets its cooling water from the reservoir.