The water level in the Kajovka dam dropped another meter in the last 24 hours until reaching the 11.74 metersand it continues to fall, warned this Friday the Ukrainian public hydroelectric company ukrhidroenergo.
“At 08:00 on June 9, the water level of the Kajovka dam (…) stands at 11.74 meters. In one day, the water level of the Kajovka dam dropped another meter,” he said in a message in Telegramcollected by Evropeiska Pravda.
It also adds that since the morning of June 6, after the explosion at the Nueva Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, the water level has already dropped by a total of 4.7 meters.
The statement said that more than half of the station building is under water and also the dam between the lock and the station is already under water and continues to deteriorate.
Ukrhydroenergo hydroelectric power plants continue to store water in the upper dams of the Dnieper River as far as possible in order to have a summer reserve, the public company says.
Ukraine urged Russia to allow the passage of the Red Cross
The representative of Ukraine to the UN, Sergiy Kyslytsya, asked this Thursday at the United Nations that Russia allow the passage of personnel from UN agencies and the Red Cross to areas under its control in the province of Khersonseriously affected by the overflow of the Kajovka dam.
Kyslytsya, who was flanked by numerous European ambassadors to the UN, noted that Russian forces have also shot people who were being evacuated from the part controlled by Ukraine, which has caused nine injuries.
Ukrainian President, Volodimir Zelenskycriticized this Thursday the International Committee of the Red Cross for not participating quickly in the rescue operations of the affected population in Kherson, but its representative at the UN later implied that this lack of access is attributable to Russia.
The journalists asked Ambassador Kyslytsya about the investigation into the dam breakwhich kyiv and Moscow attribute to each other, but the official replied that there has been no news in this regard due to the lack of cooperation from the pro-Russian occupying authorities.
The Kherson province is divided in two by the Dnieper River, where the destroyed dam and power plant were located. The west bank is controlled by the kyiv government and the east is occupied by Russia. According to kyiv, Russia blew up the dam and power station, which were located in the occupied zone, intentionally to flood the territory and hinder a possible Ukrainian advance.
(With information from EFE and Europa Press)
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