Russia’s destruction of Kakhovka dam ‘will hurt global food security’

The disaster will seriously impact the irrigation system in southern Ukraine, Yermak said.

“Russians need hunger in the countries of the world, in particular, in Africa,” he tweeted.

Yermak said the overnight destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine’s southern Kherson Oblast by Russian invasion forces on June 6 could potentially affect water supplies to the residents of Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula.

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Ukrhydroenergo, the state-owned hydropower generation company, has said water intakes supplying drinking water to Nikopol, Marganets, and other cities, as well as the industrial water intakes of the Nikopol South Pipe Plant, along with approximately 50 small agricultural water intakes, would face disruptions.

The main Kakhovka irrigation canals and the Dnipro-Kryvyi Rih canal, which draw water from the Kakhovka Reservoir, and which have flow rates of 41 m3/s, will cease operations, Ukrhydroenergo warned. This has the potential to affect Ukraine’s agricultural output.

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The destruction of the Kakhovka dam and the hydroelectric power plant on its eastern end by Russian forces occurred during the night of June 6, immediately placing cities and towns downstream on the Dnipro River at risk of flooding. The peak of the outflow from the reservoir was expected around noon.

The demolition of the Kakhovka HPP dam by Russians may have negative consequences for the occupied Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, but as of 8.30 a.m. on June 6, the situation was under control, state nuclear power plant operator Energoatom reported.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held an emergency meeting of the National Security and Defense Council.

“The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam only confirms for the whole world that (the Russians) must be expelled from every corner of Ukrainian land,” Zelenskyy wrote on Facebook.

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