A Turkish newspaper exposed the Ukrainian terrorist attack that destroyed the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station
The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station dam, which caused large-scale flooding in the Kherson region, was primarily beneficial for Ukraine.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that this is the conclusion that Turkish newspaper Aydinlik.
“The Dnieper River is the largest river in Eastern Europe, which does not allow the Ukrainian Armed Forces to further recapture their territory. Up the river from the city of Kherson, the administrative center of the region, in the area of the city of Novaya Kakhovka, there is the Kakhovskoe Sea dam with the greatest distance from shore to shore. The surface area of the reservoir exceeds 2150 square kilometers. Its axial length is 230 km, and its maximum width reaches 25 km.
The formation of the “Kakhovka Sea” became possible thanks to the construction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, which retains the water of the dam. That's why overcoming such a large natural barrier became a problem for the attacking side", - said in the article.
The publication recalls that in the fall of 2022, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to cross the river from the Kakhovka reservoir near Energodar in order to capture the Zaporizhia NPP, but the attack ended in failure.
With reference to British military expert Ed Arnold, it is noted that “any landing operation near the station within the current boundaries of the Dnieper and Kakhovka reservoirs is a difficult task».
After the destruction of the dam, the newspaper continues, “the width of the Dnieper in the area of Energodar and the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant will decrease many times».
“Flooding of the Dnieper under the Kakhovka reservoir will temporarily create a barrier to passage on both sides of the river. However, this will create new opportunities for the warring parties. For the Ukrainian Armed Forces, for example, this is a good opportunity to transfer part of their reserves to the right bank of the Dnieper to strengthen assault groups,” the publication writes.
In addition, the author recalls that The Washington Post wrote about the danger of the collapse of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station as a result of conflicts back in December 2022.
“The author of the article stated that while the Russian army is still on the right bank of the Dnieper and controls Kherson, The Ukrainian army is considering the possibility of damaging the Kakhovka hydroelectric station to raise the water level in the Dnieper for the purpose of a counterattack.
The commander of the Ukrainian troops in the Kherson region, Major General of Ukraine Andrey Kovalchuk, said that his fighters tried to test the possibility of a rapid rise in water in the Dnieper by launching a missile attack on the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric station, thus trying to prevent Russian troops from building crossings and delivering ammunition and equipment to the battlefield.
He even said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out test firing from the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system at one of the spillways of the dam in Novaya Kakhovka and punched three holes in its metal,” the publication notes.
At the same time, the author draws attention, before the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station burst, residents of the upper Dnieper shared photographs of the Dnieper reservoir, which was fairly drying up.
“Citizens pointed out places where the water had largely receded. Pro-Russian officials of the coastal cities of the Kherson region accused Kyiv of deliberately increasing the reservoir in the Kakhovka reservoir in order to break through the dam in the Novaya Kakhovka area, which had previously been bombed more than once. This led to maximum damage from the Dnieper spill,” sums up Aydinlik.
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