⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 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 If the group had not been withdrawn, it would now be cut off from supplies.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.

@mediterraneanman

🇷🇺🇺🇦 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

🇷🇺 Breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station - what will happen to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant: expert commentary

There is a person among my acquaintances who is very well versed in the matter. And I asked him to make a comment, what could be the consequences for the Zaporozhye NPP of today's breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP.

Here is the original text:

"At the Zaporozhye NPP, the spent fuel pools and the reactor in the MCU mode (minimum controlled level) are cooled from special" splash "pools, they are located on land and are clearly visible from the satellite. There, water circulates in a closed circuit, gradually evaporates from heating by the sun and it is simply topped up (not from the river).

The cooling pond is separated from the Kakhovka reservoir by a dam and has a couple of gates for "receiving" or "draining" water (depending on the level difference).

The pond is large, I don’t remember a single case when in the summer there was a decrease in the power of the blocks due to the high water temperature in the pond. The pond is divided by a partition into 2 parts, so that water can be taken from one place, and the water that has passed through the turbine condensers can be drained to another. Water "walks" around the ring and cools.

In any case, the Zaporozhye NPP will operate only with the 5th and 6th blocks for the time being, and this pond will definitely be enough for them.

If there is a problem with water, one or more plastic pipes will reach the place where there will still be water in the reservoir and this will be enough to solve it. In this case, you just need to compensate for evaporation and leakage in the reservoir."

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The strike of Ukrainian troops on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station was allegedly delivered from the Alder MLRS, the administration of Nova Kakhovka told RIA Novosti