⚡️ Various sources claim that the dam in Nova Kakhovka was struck. So far there is little supporting information (and some reports trace back to Pro Ukraine sources, such as John Helin) and as such we urge caution, although we wait for developments to confirm or deny it. Remember, as the situation develops the enemy will attempt to spread as much confusion and disinformation about their acts as possible.

Credit to WarMonitor for the map.

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Local channels from the region are starting to report the rumors are false but cannot definitively confirm such as this time so we continue to wait. Likely these rumors started as a provocation by Pro Ukraine commentators as we previously mentioned.

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 It has been confirmed that the Nova Kakhovka dam in Kherson Oblast has been blown up...

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 This is an infographic that projects water rise if the Nova Kakhovka dam blew.

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Additional Footage of Nova Kakhovka dam.

🇷🇺🇺🇦☢️ To note. Upstream from the Nova Kakhovka Dam is the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant which sits along the Kakhovka reservoir. This could cause problems for cooling the reactors as the nuclear plant relies on water from the reservoir.

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Making the situation even worse, water levels behind the dam are at a 30 year high. The city of Kherson will need to be evacuated in its entirety in the next 24-48 hours.

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Dams like Nova Kahkovka are protected by the laws of war and the Geneva convention for a reason. According to Article 56 of the 1977 Additional Protocol I:

“Works and installations containing dangerous forces, namely dams, dykes and nuclear electrical generating stations, shall not be made the object of attack, even where these objects are military objectives, if such attack may cause the release of dangerous forces and consequent severe losses among the civilian population. Other military objectives located at or in the vicinity of these works or installations shall not be made the object of attack if such attack may cause the release of dangerous forces from the works or installations and consequent severe losses among the civilian population.”

⚡️ Further modeling to give a better idea of why the ramifications of this will be.

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This is how the reason for leaving the right bank of the Dnieper to us last year looks like. If the group had not been withdrawn, it would now be cut off from supplies. If not for Surovikin, we would have lost tens of thousands of our professional paratroopers, real fighters and professionals.

⚡🇺🇦 The worst case scenario of the water levels that would get out of the dam after it's destruction was 13 meters, by professional models.


Now it's 17 meters.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Meanwhile, the islands have already begun to go under water.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡Destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station: The scale of the ecological catastrophe is gaining momentum.

Judging by this video, very soon and not yet destroyed part of the building of the Kakhovskaya HPP will be washed away by the stream:

🇺🇦🇷🇺 More footage of the destruction of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region