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.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has long accused Russian forces, in control of the dam since February, of laying mines at the facility and thus causing catastrophic flooding in the Dnieper River communities to slow the advance of Kiev forces.
