During the Kakhovskaya HPP explosion incident, the russians plan to use artesian water for irrigation canals, which could lead to groundwater depletion

The head of Zaporizhzhia Region State Administration, Ivan Fedorov reported this in a statement.

"The invaders are going to liquidate the consequences of the ecocide they committed — undermining the dam of Kakhovskaya HPP — at the expense of an even worse crime. They said that they will fill irrigation canals with artesian water", he informs.

Fedorov emphasized that in the future, the consequence of such actions of the occupants may be the exhaustion of groundwater reserves. Thus, the population of the south of the region may be left without water supply.

"With this decision, the occupants destroy the system of underground water and commit another ecocide at the TOT", — said the head of Zaporizhzhia RSA.

We recall that on June 5, 2023, russian occupants blew up the Kakhovkaya hydroelectric power plant. Authorities and volunteers from all over Ukraine began urgently evacuating people from the territories nearby. The undermining of the hydroelectric power plant resulted in numerous human casualties, serious environmental consequences and affected the safety of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. The Ukrainian side is convinced that these actions of the occupants were intended to create chaos and were aimed at delaying the Ukrainian Defense Forces.

On June 5, 2024, Igor Sirota, the director general of Ukrhydroenergo, said that there is a project to build a temporary hydroelectric facility on the site of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant destroyed by russian invaders. Such projects for temporary hydroelectric facilities already exist, and hydropower engineers are waiting for the de-occupation of the territories to be able to start work.

On June 6, it became known that it would be possible to rebuild the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power plant destroyed by the russians in 6–7 years after the de-occupation.