2023-06-06 04:27:22
According to the Ukrainian military, Russian troops have blown up the Kakhovka Dam in the Russian-controlled part of the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson. “The extent of the destruction, the speed and volume of the water and the likely flood areas are being clarified,” the South Command wrote in a statement today.
According to the Russian news agency Ria, the mayor of the city of Nowa Kakhovka contradicted reports that the dam had been blown up. He reported damage from artillery fire. Numerous posts circulated on Russian and Ukrainian social networks that the dam on the Dnipro River had been destroyed.
The reservoir supplies water to the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, as well as to the occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. Extensive flooding is feared.
Russia claims to have thwarted another offensive
Russia had previously reported the thwarting of another major offensive by Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk region. As the Russian Ministry of Defense announced last night, eight Leopard battle tanks and three French wheeled tanks were destroyed.
1,500 Ukrainian soldiers were killed. 109 armored vehicles were also destroyed. The report could not be independently confirmed, and Ukraine did not comment.
Prigoschin: „Absurde Science-Fiction“
Doubts about the information came from the head of the Russian Wagner mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigozhin. He did not consider the alleged number of victims in the ranks of the Ukrainians to be realistic. This would require far more ground gains.
“So I think this is just wild and absurd science fiction,” Prigozhin said in a statement on his Telegram channel. Adding up the Ministry’s numbers, “we’ve already destroyed the entire planet five times,” he added sarcastically.
Prigozhin has repeatedly sharply criticized the Russian military leadership and accused them of incompetence. Yesterday Ukraine rejected the Russian claim that a counter-offensive had been launched in the Donetsk region.
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