Cabinet calculates damage caused to country by Kakhovskaya HPP bombing

Ukraine's losses from Russia's bombing of the Kakhovska hydro-electric power station in Kherson Region have already amounted to 55bn hryvnyas. And this is only a preliminary estimate. It will be possible to assess the full scale of losses only after several days. This is reported on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers.

It is noted that 62% of the total volume of water has already escaped from the Kakhovka reservoir. As of the morning of June 10, 62% of its volume, about 12.24 cubic kilometres of water, has flowed out. The water level in the reservoir is already about 10.5 metres and continues to decline.

Water has completely flooded the National Park "Nizhnedneprovsky", and in the parks "Velikiy Lug" and "Kamenskaya Sech" the water area is shallowing.

Thirty percent of the nature protection fund of the Kherson region is under the threat of destruction," the report says.

Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strelets noted that this is only a preliminary assessment of the damage. He noted that environmental inspectors, national park employees, water experts and foresters at the site of the environmental disaster continue to record evidence of crimes committed by the Russian occupiers.

He also pointed out that the damage caused by the Russians by blowing up the Kakhovska hydroelectric power plant on the left bank remains unclear.

The minister urged people who witnessed crimes against the environment to contact the EkoUgroza portal and app to record them.

We would like to point out that Russian invaders blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant on 6 June, as a result of which water from the Kakhovka reservoir flooded settlements in Kherson and Mykolayiv regions, as well as flooded Zaporizhzhya and Dnipropetrovsk regions.