On June 6, 2023, the Russians blew up the Ukrainian Kakhovka Hydro-Electric Power Station in order to damage the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 80 settlements in southern Ukraine were flooded. I wrote about this tragedy on June 6 in detail in Ukrainian.

There is no doubt that the Russians did this, because:

  • a) The Russians had motives (to prevent the armed forces of Ukraine from forcing the Dnieper).
  • b) The Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station is a capital structure designed to withstand even a hit by a nuclear bomb, therefore it was realistic to blow it up only from the inside. And at the time of the explosion of the hydroelectric power station, it had been captured by the Russians for a year now and was under their control.

In terms of its devastating consequences, the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station has become the biggest man-made disaster of the 21st century, comparable to Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945).

What is worse for the future: under the control of the Russians, the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, as well as the Ukrainian chemical plant "Titan", remains. Both enterprises are also mined and could be blown up by the Russians.