Advisor to the head of the presidential office, Mikhail Podolyak, said that Russians are preparing a technogenic disaster, voicing the “plan” of the commander of the Russian Federation in Ukraine Sergey Surovikin according to the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, Ukrainian media reports.
According to Podolyak, this plan includes the mining of the dam and transformers, the forced deportation of Ukrainians, the flooding of the territory to cover the retreat of the Russian Federation.
Earlier on Thursday, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky said that the Russian military mined the dam and units of the Kakhovsky hydroelectric power station. In the case of undermining the dam, hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of the south of Ukraine will be flooded, and Crimea and Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plants will remain without water.