Marianna PrysiazhniukIn the early morning of June 6, in parallel with another massive missile strike on Ukrainian cities, Russian occupiers blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant they had seized.
According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, occupation troops carried out an internal explosion of the plant’s structures at 02:50 a.m. About 80 settlements were in the flood zone, and tens of thousands were in the risk zone.
Despite the vast amount of photo and video materials confirming the data of the Ukrainian authorities about the occupants blowing up the Kakhovska HPP, at first, the Russian media tried to ensure that “everything in Novaya Kakhovka is “calm and quiet” and the information about blowing up the plant is “nonsense”.
Subsequently, when it became impossible to hide the fact of the disaster, the pro-Kremlin media spread a considerable number of theories about the destruction of the Kakhovska HPP, from the narrative “the dam collapsed by itself” to the theses about “Ukrainian missiles bombing the Kakhovska HPP.
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