Crimea will not be able to receive water from the Kakhovsky reservoir after the destruction of the hydroelectric power station - Ukrhydroenergo

After the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, water will not flow into the Crimea for at least a year, said the head of Ukrhydroenergo Igor Sirot.

The water level in the Kakhovsky reservoir fell below the “dead” point of 12.7 m, which does not allow the Crimean channel to supply. Problems with water supply will also be in the southern regions of Ukraine: Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson and Nikolaev.

Ukraine has already stopped measuring water in the Kakhovsky reservoir, as it sank below the sensors.

The supply of water from the Kakhovsky reservoir to the Crimea ceased after the annexation of the peninsula in 2014. On February 24, 2022, the Russian army seized the Kherson part of the North Crimean Canal, and soon the authorities resumed the supply of water to the Crimea.