“This year, on June 6, it is two years since the blasting of the Kakhovsky hydroelectric power station by the Russian occupiers, which has caused one of the largest eco -capstotrophes of today in Europe. Then 620 square kilometers of the territory of four regions of Ukraine were under water. The consequences of this Russian terrorist attack will be felt for decades. The blasting of dams is considered a war crime and a potential act of ecocid, performed by the army of Russia. The government is currently”, – WRITE ON: ua.news
This year, on June 6, it is two years since the blasting of the Kakhovsky hydroelectric power station by the Russian occupiers, which has caused one of the largest eco -capstotrophes of today in Europe. Then 620 square kilometers of the territory of four regions of Ukraine were under water. The consequences of this Russian terrorist attack will be felt for decades. The blasting of dams is considered a war crime and a potential act of ecocid, performed by the army of Russia. Currently, the Government of Ukraine plans to restore the Kakhovsk hydroelectric power station after the full de -occupation of the territory. But environmentalists offer not to rush.
That happened in 2023
On the night of June 6, 2023, Russian troops blew up the Kakhovsky hydroelectric power dam, provoking one of the largest man -made disasters over the last decades. There were 16,000 people and about 80 settlements in the disaster zone. The explosion formed an artificial flood that flooded dozens of settlements on both sides of the Dnieper.
The death of 31 people is officially recognized. Although this figure is not final. More than 40 more people are still missing, their fate cannot be established because they were in the temporarily occupied territory during flooding.
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The Associated Press investigated that hundreds of people were killed by the destruction of the Dams of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power and Floods, which is much more than the amount that the Occupation authorities were under the Kremlin -controlled. According to the occupiers, 59 people were sunk in the territory controlled. But only in the occupied Oleshki, whose population, according to the Ukrainian soldiers, was 16,000 people at the time of the flood, their number is calculated at least hundreds, according to the AP publication.
Water washed away the gas station, warehouses with chemicals, cattle mobes and cesspools. The polluted flows reached the Black Sea, which caused environmentalists. In Kherson in the morning of June 6, water began to arrive in many neighborhoods, where the first floors of apartment buildings flooded.
“The water stood above my growth in the porch and there was nowhere. We just stood and watched as she climbed. The water was above the fence, it was not visible. The rescuers who came on the boats, one undressed to the pants and flowed into the water to open the castle, open the gate. And then they came here on the boats, ”the local residents remember.
In six days, the water level slept and the Kherson were able to return to their homes, which now had to be restored.
According to experts, undermining the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station caused losses of about $ 14 billion, given infrastructure damage and long -term environmental impact. The greatest direct damage was caused to energy and residential sectors.
According to the report “Assessment of needs after catastrophe on the dam of Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station”(Pdna)the amount of direct damage caused to infrastructure and assets is $ 2.79 billion, and the total amount of losses is over $ 11 billion, with prolonged environmental impact. Infrastructure and assets in energy and residential sectors were the greatest direct damage – $ 1.26 billion and $ 1.1 billion, respectively. It is emphasized that the losses in these sectors are critical for long -term stability and recovery.
That is now in the reservoir site
The bottom of the former Kakhovka reservoir was filled with willow seedlings. In two years they already reach more than five meters in height. In general, the Kakhovka reservoir turns into the largest forest of southern Ukraine, since about 80,000 hectares of the former bottom of the reservoir overgrown with young forests. Although part of the territory still turned into a desert.
Ecologists have estimated that nearly 40 billion young willows or poplars can grow here, as it has sprouted up to 60 young trees in an uncontrolled state here.
“We explored the reservoir in different places: in Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions, on the right and left banks. At first they thought there would be a desertification, but in fact began to grow willow very quickly, because it just gave the seeds at this time. Already in the fall of the first year, the shoots reached two meters. If they continue to develop, in 10-20 years typical floodplain willow forests will be formed, ”-said in a comment to RBC-Ukraine Academician of NAS, ecologist and geobotanic Yakov Didukh.
What a future
In Ukraine, two stages of the project of restoration of the Kakhovsky hydroelectric unit are developed, which includes the restoration of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. Last year, Ukrhydroenergo reported the preparation of a temporary hydroelectric power station on the site of the Kakhovsky Hydroelectric Tti -destroyed Russians, so that the reservoir could be restored.
After the undermining, there was a decision of the rate and the government, which required a projected solution to restore the station and at least a temporary connection of the right and left bank in order to stop the reservoir. Such temporary hydraulic projects are already ready for implementation.
CEO of Ukrhydroenergo
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If the territory is left unchanged, new forests will be formed in 10-20 years. To flood this area, you have to cut trees that will cost 1.5 billion hryvnias. And this, according to environmentalists, is not a serious argument in favor of large -scale flooding.
Recall that main water pipes for areas that affected As a result of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, it will cost at least UAH 13.5 billion.
The Cabinet of Ministers is already He directed More than UAH 4 billion to overcome the consequences of a terrorist attack committed by the Russians at the Kakhovsky Hydroelectric Power Plant.
