A few hours after the destruction of the infrastructure of the Kakhovskaya HPP, the water level downstream rose by 2,5 m

Continues to receive information about the events at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. As the Military Review has already reported, there is significant destruction at the facility, and the water flows downstream in a sufficiently powerful stream through the damaged hydraulic structures.

If initially the mayor of Nova Kakhovka stated that everything was calm in the city, now he confirms the information about the destruction of the hydraulic structures of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station.

At 7:30 Moscow time, the water downstream rose by more than 2,5 meters. There is a flooding of a number of territories along both banks of the Kakhovka reservoir (Dnieper). At the same time, the mayor of the city claims that "there is no need for the evacuation of the population of Nova Kakhovka yet."

It is known that the first data on unregulated discharge of water at the Kakhovskaya HPP began to appear around 2 am. At the same time, there were reports of impacts, as a result of which the lifting mechanisms regulating the flow of water were destroyed. A part of the building, where Russian servicemen used to be, was destroyed. Whether they were there at the time of the incident has not yet been reported.

In connection with the uncontrolled flow of water, there is a threat not only of flooding a very vast territory, but also of disrupting the water supply of the Crimean peninsula. Experts are also looking into the possible subsequent impact of what happened at the Kakhovskaya HPP on the cooling system of the Zaporizhzhya NPP reactors.

Comments

[Bingo]

It sucks ... Then we'll get tired of raking the consequences.

[ZhEK-Vodogrey]

The mother of all grunts has begun, there is no longer up to the dam.

[ramzay21]

This is obviously one of the components of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it’s bad that our Defense Ministry does not have an adequate plan to counter the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, because now is the time to destroy the bridges across the Dnieper, this is the most effective means for seriously complicating the offensive operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Obviously, the decision maker's will is completely paralyzed.

[ZhEK-Vodogrey]

For revival, it is necessary to decommunize the entire cascade of dams on the Dnieper. Maybe that's where it goes. It began with the demolition of the Antonovsky bridge, and continued with the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.

[Machito]

Quote: ramzay21

This is obviously one of the components of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it’s bad that our Defense Ministry does not have an adequate plan to counter the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, because now is the time to destroy the bridges across the Dnieper, this is the most effective means for seriously complicating the offensive operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Obviously, the decision maker's will is completely paralyzed.

Perhaps Ukrovermacht is going to force the shallow Kakhovka reservoir to capture the ZNPP and attack Perekop. To prevent such a scenario, it is possible to blow up the dams up the Dnieper.

[Bulrumeb]

Forcing a shallow reservoir? Yes, it would be much more difficult than forcing a filled one - many meters thick of mud and silt and over a huge area. And it won't dry out for months. What to force? You can no longer swim on boats and boats, and other equipment will simply sink in the mud. Or will the hovercraft be brought to the skakuas for this?

[Fitter65]

Quote: Bearded

Perhaps Ukrovermacht is going to force the shallow Kakhovka reservoir to capture the ZNPP and attack Perekop

On the bottom of the shallow reservoir, where before that there was water for decades, without special equipment it is not at all realistic. From my own experience, as a child, I lived in Chingis, on the banks of the Ob reservoir, in the spring, during the period of ice drift, the water left the summer edge by about 50-100 meters. And it was not possible for us 12-13 year old boys to reach the water, through this silt and mud, approaching the water at 15-20 meters we just got stuck, we used to leave our boots in this mud, but imagine what will happen to the VSUshnik who weighs more than boy, and his equipment also complements the specific load on this floating soil ... Yes, and in this waterless space everything will be visible at a glance, and there is no way to hide behind a hillock or a bush, and just digging in is a problem ...

[Peter1First]

Ours will not destroy all the Dnieper bridges, because they are not terrorists, and most importantly, the oligarchs did not allow them. But the Armed Forces of Ukraine will immediately blame us for the destruction of the dam. But I warned that one of the consequences of leaving Kherson and the right bank would be the destruction of the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station - Ukraine would not allow the North Crimean canal, which is fed from the dam, to function! Have you already sown rice in the Crimea?

[Lech from Android.]

Someone has committed a war crime that falls under the definition of terrorism.

[Serafim]

Yeah. "If I find out who did it, I'll punish someone!"
Why the Kuev metro was not flooded, that's the question for everyone.

[Lech from Android.]

Quote from Serafim

Yeah. "If I find out who did it, I'll punish someone!"
Why the Kuev metro was not flooded, that's the question for everyone.

This will also be a crime ... do not follow the example of Hitler who flooded the Berlin subway before his suicide.

[rocket757]

In connection with the uncontrolled flow of water, there is a threat not only of flooding a very vast territory, but also of disrupting the water supply of the Crimean peninsula. Experts are also looking into the possible subsequent impact of what happened at the Kakhovskaya HPP on the cooling system of the Zaporizhzhya NPP reactors.

. So don't bother anyone!!!
"Logic" deb B beats, full of scumbags.

[Mikhail Ivanov]

If this sabotage affects ZNPP, it will not be on such a fatal scale as many assume. Soviet scientists. who designed the station, foresaw such a scenario. Another question is, who will guarantee that the station itself will not be hit with something heavy ???

[dmi.pris1]

The ZNPP is stopped, the reactors are shut off. The coolant is naturally circulated, but at the same time, the condensers do not need as much water as with loaded turbines

[solar]

The reactors are cooled directly from a huge cooling pond.

[dmi.pris1]

There is a nuance there. Water evaporates and replenishes the pond from the reservoir. There is a coastal pumping station. Yes, and not quite the reactor is cooled. And the coolant in the turbine condensers

[solar]

ZNPP has pressurized water reactors, and pressurized water is also used as a coolant. The water consumption for the shutdown reactors is relatively small, the evaporation is minimal, in this mode the water will last for quite a long time, the water supply in the pond is large, it is designed for the operation of the units under load, when the evaporation during cooling is very large.

There is a coastal pumping station

you need to look at the depth of water intake of the pumping station. I think it can be increased if necessary.

[g_ae]

These are all the consequences of "goodwill gestures", "regroupings", "difficult decision making", "we are not takism", "we are not undertakings yet", rubber "red lines", "grain deals", concerns, bewilderment, respect for "partners ". In short, the result of impotence. We are waiting for Mr. Konashenkov's brave performance, as it is with the kraken. Have you finally caught it? By the way, Russia is now accused of this. And Lavrov will flow around and indistinctly be perplexed there.

[ism_ek]

Therefore, they left the right bank. At any moment the dam could be destroyed.

[Sanguinius]

I wonder how it could be undermined if Kherson and the dam were under our control?

[igorbrsv]

. I wonder how it could be undermined if Kherson and the dam were under our control?

Yes, in the same way as the Antonovsky bridge. If the army was now on the other side, it would have already been cut off and you can’t even build pontoons now

[ism_ek]

The dam was still under our control. They blasted with a cruise missile or set up sea explosives with a drone

[Sanguinius]

Do not carry nonsense. What kind of a marine drone should there be to undermine and demolish 11 spans out of 28 !?
The same applies to the "cruise missile" version. With us, Calibers can’t do anything with one hit with bridges, but you’re talking about a whole dam. Did you see any damage there?
And it’s a no brainer that there was a dam mining ... and then, therefore, a logical question arises. How could the Ukrainians mine the dam if Kherson and the hydroelectric power station were under our control?

[ism_ek]

Quote: Sanguinius

Do not carry nonsense. What kind of a marine drone should there be to undermine and demolish 11 spans out of 28 !?

Did you play the game "Forged Chains" as a child? It is enough to demolish one span.
Someone writes that Alder arrived at night, and someone that these are the consequences of past arrivals.

[Dude]

It would also be interesting for me to hear the yksperds who (in particular, here on the site) unanimously sang that the Dnieper bridges and dams are very difficult to destroy targets.
It turns out not very much.
Xoxly, it turns out, can - and the forces needed are there, and the means.
And we can in grain transactions and ammonia pipelines.
Very strange war.

[Dude]

Oh, I see, immediately the minuses flew from the local "guards".
It would be interesting to hear - in what I, in my commentary, sinned against the truth?
Well, if there is essentially nothing to object, then it is easier, of course, to blurt out a "minus" stupidly.

[art having]

"It would also be interesting for me to hear the experts who (in particular, here on the site) sang with one voice that the Dnieper bridges and dams are very difficult to destroy the target.
It turns out not very much."
Xoxly, it turns out, can - and the forces needed are there, and the means.
"It would be interesting to hear - in what way did I err against the truth in my commentary?"

The fact that it is most likely that ours was undermined ...

[igorbrsv]

If the dam was difficult to destroy, then last year no one would have left Kherson

[dmi.pris1]

Kherson was left for a completely different reason. Lack of forces for defense and problems with logistics, an acute shortage of engineering means for arranging crossings.

[igorbrsv]

And with the loss of the dam, they would have been completely cut off. Now there is a current and no crossing

[solar]

Dnieper bridges and dams are very difficult targets to destroy.

Difficult if it is not possible to plant a large amount of explosives in the right places.

[Horon]

they sang with one voice that the Dnieper bridges and dams are very difficult targets to destroy.

Dill does not count money, he can drain a quarter of a billion dollars with zero exhaust into the sewer in one salvo. If our military begins to spend expensive weapons in this way, then you will be the first to start screaming from frenzied inflation and the multiple growth of the communal apartment.

[Dude]

Quote: Horon

they sang with one voice that the Dnieper bridges and dams are very difficult targets to destroy.

Dill does not count money, he can drain a quarter of a billion dollars with zero exhaust into the sewer in one salvo. If our military begins to spend expensive weapons in this way, then you will be the first to start screaming from frenzied inflation and the multiple growth of the communal apartment.

I can't scream, I'm not a pig.
Zero exhaust, you say? Izyum, Balakleya, Chernobyl and Kherson, as well as Sumy and Chernihiv regions (territories recaptured by xoxl, originally taken by the Russian army) - is this zero exhaust? I wouldn't say so. You can engage in any verbal balancing act, but you won’t be able to explain to me how, during hostilities, negotiations can be carried out with the enemy on the supply of resources through its territory, to its port. Well, it's a game.
The destruction of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station - also, "zero exhaust"?
In addition, I was talking about the very possibility of destroying such engineering facilities, and not about the expediency of this.

[Horon]

I can't scream, I'm not a pig

Yes? And it seemed to me that this is exactly what you are doing now!
PS Not only pigs squeal, but also wives when they swear at their husbands, girls when they are pinched or mice are seen, even a circular saw squeals too.

squeal - high and sharp cry, sound. (c)

How are you running it!

You speak?

I'm talking about a patriot who is already everything!

Izyum, Balakleya, Chernobyl and Kherson, as well as Sumy and Chernihiv regions (territories recaptured by xoxl, originally taken by the Russian army)

When someone tries to eat more than can fit in his stomach, he always comes up with a well-known result - he remains hungry! In this case, this is what happened. The rear fell behind, the defense was not prepared, the calculation of the support of the All-Union Force did not materialize. Our army suffered the main losses not from heimers, but from old Soviet weapons.

You can do any verbal balancing act

Where am I to you!

The destruction of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station - also, "zero exhaust"?

What has dill gained from this action so far? Did you piss under the door? So she has been doing this for many years, even if she hits her foot.

In addition, I was talking about the very possibility of destroying such engineering facilities, and not about the expediency of this.

Is it possible to wear pants over the head? Perhaps, but it will not be convenient to walk - it will see through from below.
In any case, there must be expediency, only young men of puberty are prone to aimless actions and antics, the purpose of which may be bravado.

[Sergey39]

We have to wait to what level the water in the reservoir drops and then look at the possibility of supplying water to cool the reactors at the ZNPP and the possibility of supplying water to the North Crimean Canal, and it begins much higher than the Kakhovka dam.
The madness of the "territory of Ukraine" only confirms our actions.

[Dude]

They drown our minefields and the first lines of defense - this is the task for which they destroyed the dam.

[solar]

to the North Crimean Canal, and he starts much higher Kakhovka dam

The North Crimean Canal starts at a distance of 500 meters from the dam.

[Sergey39]

Yes, I agree, the haste failed, I did not carefully look at the location of the channel. It doesn't matter in which part of the Kakhovka reservoir the canal originates, after the water drains everything will be clear.

[Reader 2013]

Why wait there is a section of the dam, open it and look, count, you can clearly see how many meters the level will drop
Everything is elementary

[Konnick]

At about 2 o'clock in the morning, a number of numerous attacks were carried out on the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, which destroyed the shonors, this is what the common people call the valves.

Actually Shandora. One dropout blogger writes shonors and a new word has already appeared on the network
I don’t understand why they give you minuses ... There was no need to make strikes at the state district power station. But jingoistic patriots, don't be so bloodthirsty... one Kiev subway is drowning... the other grunts.
If our generals did it, then not from a great mind.

[Arkadich]

For the military, it is probably more interesting not how much the level will rise below the hydroelectric power station, but how much it will go higher. The Kakhovka reservoir was used as a natural obstacle. As the water level drops, many defense plans will have to change.

[ism_ek]

There will be a swamp on the former bottom for a long time. Technique, even easy will not pass

[igorbrsv]

You can't get out of the mud on the shore ....

[Arkadich]

Do you have geological data for the rocks of the shoreline? Do you completely sweep away sandy, pebble layers and rock outcrops? The width and depth of water obstacles will decrease, panton crossings will be simplified.

[Teledroid]

So it means that you can drain water from the Kyiv reservoir in exactly the same way? And they said that this is technically too difficult ...

[solar]

To do this, you must first take the Kyiv hydroelectric power station, otherwise it will be difficult to lay explosives.

[Teledroid]

Yes, how much of that explosive for shutters is there? It's not like blowing up a dam.

[Viktor Sergeev]

And why is the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant not shut down, anyway, electricity is not being supplied anywhere?

[igorbrsv]

If it does not go anywhere, then it is muffled. She can't idle

[Tank destroyerSU-100]

And now let the woodpeckers, who have tried, that you can’t smash the bridges in the rear of the Wehrmacht's coming out, like, we will use them, letting them tell tales that the Wehrmacht's coming out will never blow up these bridges.

[igorbrsv]

This is not a bridge. This is a dam. A dam explosion in my area would flood the entire area. And I will not say what it is fraught with. I would now live at a depth of 9 meters

[Dude]

Quote: igorbrsv

This is not a bridge. This is a dam. A dam explosion in my area would flood the entire area. And I will not say what it is fraught with. I would now live at a depth of 9 meters

It's not a dam, it's a dam. The dam is confused by landmines picking.

[Tank destroyerSU-100]

Quote: Dude

It would also be interesting for me to hear the yksperds who (in particular, here on the site) unanimously sang that the Dnieper bridges and dams are very difficult to destroy targets.
It turns out not very much.
Xoxly, it turns out, can - and the forces needed are there, and the means.
And we can in grain transactions and ammonia pipelines.
Very strange war.

The oligarch's gesheft for power is sacred! And the blood of our people - ugh, water.

[Tank destroyerSU-100]

Quote: g_ae

These are all the consequences of "goodwill gestures", "regroupings", "difficult decision making", "we are not takism", "we are not undertakings yet", rubber "red lines", "grain deals", concerns, bewilderment, respect for "partners ". In short, the result of impotence. We are waiting for Mr. Konashenkov's brave performance, as it is with the kraken. Have you finally caught it? By the way, Russia is now accused of this. And Lavrov will flow around and indistinctly be perplexed there.

Nothing, now Madame Zakharova first burst into verbal diarrhea, about concern, and then she dances.

[Tank destroyerSU-100]

Quote: Dude

It would also be interesting for me to hear the yksperds who (in particular, here on the site) unanimously sang that the Dnieper bridges and dams are very difficult to destroy targets.
It turns out not very much.
Xoxly, it turns out, can - and the forces needed are there, and the means.
And we can in grain transactions and ammonia pipelines.
Very strange war.

That's for sure. But now these experts will pretend to be rags and try not to shine, like they were not here.

[igorbrsv]

What's happened? Did you play World of Tanks unsuccessfully? The VSU were interested in destroying the dam last year. Everyone knew about it. Therefore, the troops were withdrawn to the left bank of the Dnieper. Defensive lines are equipped to the east. Or do you think that something else needs to be done? Do you have complete information where and how many Bandera are deployed? Where can we go on the offensive, and where is it better to take our time? This is not a game. You won't play again. You won't restart. And life will not return

[tralflot1832]

We discussed this topic six months ago. And now in order. Kiev minimized the discharge of water from the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, already exchanged the Dnieper, the beaches were drawn a hundred meters long. to the limit - only the shadows will fall apart where necessary .. Only a specialist will say what will happen to the ZNPP water intake. not 4 reactors. Where to get water, where to get water now to replenish the pools? as long as the water is taken into storage, this is not so critical.

[solar]

Kiev minimized the discharge of water from the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, already exchanged the Dnieper, the beaches were drawn a hundred meters long. He collected water unmeasured. Then he began an active discharge, the water returned, flooding our gifts on the beaches, the Kokhovskoye reservoir was filled to the limit

The water level in the Kakhovka reservoir was regulated not by the Dneproges, but by the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. If you need to lower the level, they opened spillways in Kakhovka.

[Aleks354]

If we strike at Ukraine's critical infrastructure, is it NVO, if they attack ours, is it a terrorist attack?

[blackGRAIL]

Exactly. There are scouts and there are spies. And sometimes it's the same people.

[Tank destroyerSU-100]

Quote: ramzay21

This is obviously one of the components of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it’s bad that our Defense Ministry does not have an adequate plan to counter the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, because now is the time to destroy the bridges across the Dnieper, this is the most effective means for seriously complicating the offensive operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Obviously, the decision maker's will is completely paralyzed.

After all, the experts here have already proved with reinforced concrete that the bridges across the Dnieper are so fucking strong that it is impossible to destroy them with anything. Well, our weapons. NATO weapons bridges and dams wet once or twice.
I have repeated and will continue to repeat: the oligarchy's gesheft is sacred, and for its sake railway bridges and motorways must be inviolable. And they will be inviolable. The blood of our people for the top - ugh, the gesheft of the oligarchy - is sacred.

[igorbrsv]

Antonovskiy bridge collapsed for one or two chtoli? And before him even rszo finished off. What kind of bridges are you talking about? I don't know why they say here that the dam is difficult to demolish. Perhaps there are different dams. On the one I see - one rocket is enough. Though the caliber, even the Iskander. And wash everyone away. And if you hit our bridge, then you can only make a hole in the canvas. They won't even hit the base. The distance between supports is 300 meters. At least make holes until you're blue in the face. He is so skinny. The canvas fell through, a hole with a diameter of two meters, they threw a sheet of iron and rolled it up with asphalt. All is good. Nobody remembers that they drive through the hole

[Lech from Android.]

Quote: Konnick

But jingoistic patriots, don't be so bloodthirsty... one Kiev subway is drowning... the other grunts.

What makes you think that these cheers-patriots were ... I think it's cissos.
No patriot in their right mind would suggest such things.

[Serafim]

OK. There is no need to heat the subway yet. To begin with, smash to smithereens the Kyiv stations that pump out sewage wastewater. And leave these places tightly without electricity.

[Reader 2013]

The sewer network in 90 percent of cases, works by gravity

[igorbrsv]

To leave without electricity, you need at least to destroy high-voltage power lines or the power plant itself. If the station is destroyed, then this is either a flood or radioactive contamination. The power line or substation will be restored in two weeks. If the goal is the military-industrial complex, then why destroy Kyiv?

[Lech from Android.]

Quote from Serafim

OK. There is no need to heat the subway yet. To begin with, smash to smithereens the Kyiv stations that pump out sewage wastewater. And leave these places tightly without electricity.

What for?
What will it give from a military point of view?
From a medical point of view, the civilian population will have problems... women, children, the elderly... infectious diseases will appear... this blow is not at all against the Nazi regime in Kyiv.

[ratoborets]

We can assume that the counteroffensive has officially begun (although in reality it began a week or two ago with probing along the front line, the entry of the DRG into the Belgorod region, etc.)

Undermining the dam in the first place complicates the life of the RF Armed Forces:
– jeopardizes the operation of the Zaporizhzhya NPP (it will be realistically assessed after the water drains)
- jeopardizes the supply through the North Crimean Canal (it will be realistic to assess after the water recedes)
- will force the RF Armed Forces to pull forces into sections that were supposed to be protected by the Kakhovka Sea with a width of several to 20 km. Or to areas below the dam that were mined and tightly covered by artillery from zeroed positions ... which may need to be withdrawn due to the threat of flooding.

Despite all this, the Western media have already trumpeted that it is Russia that is to blame, that it was Russia that made it worse for itself and blew up the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.

[2 Level Advisor]

Quote from: ratoborets

Undermining the dam in the first place complicates the life of the RF Armed Forces:

Quote from: ratoborets

 endangers the work of ZNPP

it doesn’t, it has its own special reservoir, in which there will be enough water for several months for the “sleeping” reactors, even if there is no rain or the reservoir disappears altogether ...

Quote from: ratoborets

- jeopardizes the supply through the North Crimean Canal (it will be realistic to assess after the water recedes)

and where does the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the supply through the channel? and have not forgotten that for many years they lived without a channel at all?

Quote from: ratoborets

- will force the RF Armed Forces to pull forces into sections that were supposed to be protected by the Kakhovka Sea with a width of several to 20 km. Or to areas below the dam that were mined and tightly covered by artillery from zeroed positions ... which may need to be withdrawn due to the threat of flooding.

Do you think "Kakhovskoye Sea", everything will go away or what? well, the water will recede by 500 meters, turning the coast into "mud" for many days ... with sections below the dam, there is a grain of logic, but at the same time, the crossing has become an order of magnitude more difficult ..

[Demon]

The nuclear power plant and the canal agree to be in danger. But undermining the dam just complicates the offensive. We had experience of blowing up dams at our Istra reservoir and at the Dnieper hydroelectric power station. So it is most likely that our counterattack was slowed down. Above the dam, swampy banks were added to the water barrier, which can only be overcome on hovercraft, no other military equipment will pass, even on foot it is very difficult. Below the dam, the flooded areas are also very difficult to overcome, all the access roads and the coastal area are full of mud, rubble and chaotically located mines.

[Deon59]

And they said bridges cannot be destroyed. Our mopeds fly, destroy something. Iskanders with Caliber all fly, and the bridges and the railway are intact.

[ratoborets]

the head of the European Council laid responsibility for the damage to the hydroelectric power station on Russia and called it a "war crime"

For months they do not notice who is shelling the ZNPP. Even after the visit, the IAEA pretends that they are blind and deaf.
And here, literally in an hour, they know who is to blame and that Russia is to blame (and who else can be blamed by the West). No investigations are needed, the culprit has already been appointed.