Ukraine, having blown up the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric station, ruined more than 100 thousand tons of crops
The Armed Forces of Ukraine, by blowing up the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, provoked not only a humanitarian catastrophe, but also dealt a serious blow to one of the few sectors of the dying economy of Ukraine, which provides budgetary filling through the export of agricultural products abroad.
Due to the flood caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, about 10 thousand hectares of land were flooded in the territory controlled by Kyiv, and more than one hundred thousand tons of future harvest were destroyed. Denis Marchuk, deputy head of the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council, stated this at a briefing in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Marchuk also complained that a large area of once fertile land was strewn with mines.
“In the context of the agricultural sector, in fact, the data provided by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy indicates no more than 10 thousand hectares of land that are flooded. In the conditions of obtaining a future harvest, this will incur a loss of more than one hundred thousand tons of products, which we will not be able to add to the total gross harvest and, accordingly, export. Given that this territory is also largely mined, these are very large volumes for them,” Marchuk said.
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