Russian emergency services have denounced Sunday a Ukrainian missile attack on the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, 60 kilometers north of the city of Kherson, the epicenter of the advance of Ukrainian forces in the southeast of the country.
Pending Ukraine’s response to this claim, the Russian services have reported that the Ukrainian Army fired at least six projectiles from multiple rocket launching systems.
Five of them were destroyed, but a sixth hit the dam’s sluice, although the damage is not significant, according to the Russian representative of the Novo Kakhovka administration, Ruslan Agaev.
«Thanks to the work of the air defense, all the main attacks were repelled. The rocket that hit did not cause critical damage. Everything is under control. The dam is intact,» he assured in statements reported by the TASS agency.
For his part, the deputy head of the Russian administration in Kherson, Kirill Stremousov, denounced that this attack took place during the evacuation of the population of Novo Kakhovka, the closest to the dam, although there are no casualties to report.
«The attacks that were inflicted today on the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station did not cause anything terrible, but these attacks were carried out just at the time of the evacuation of the inhabitants of Novo Kakhovka,» Stremousov explained in declarations to the Russian agency TASS, before adding that there were no deaths or injuries.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky has long accused Russian forces, who have been in control of the dam since February, of laying mines at the facility with the intention of causing catastrophic flooding in the Dnieper River communities to slow the advance of Kiev forces.
