As a result of the “arrival” of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station on the night of March 22, oil products leaked into the Dnieper River.
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The State Environmental Inspectorate reported that its specialists took water samples for further laboratory testing. In addition, Russia’s attack on the hydroelectric power station caused soil contamination.
As a result of the spill into the Dnieper hydroelectric power station, soil blockages and leakage of petroleum products into the water body of the city of Dnieper were recorded; the Inspectorate specialists took water samples for the purpose of laboratory research. All received materials will be transferred to the Operational Headquarters at the State Economic Inspectorate of Ukraine and law enforcement agencies, the message says.
Russian propagandists spread information that Ukraine was allegedly “preparing to blow up the Dnieper hydroelectric power station dam” even before its attack on the station, reports the Center for Strategic Communications.
The primary source of the “news” about the preparation of the Ukrainian special services for provocations at the station was the propagandist Bessonov. He published his fake on the morning of March 21 – a day before the Russian attack on the hydroelectric power station.
The story was immediately picked up by dozens of propaganda channels such as ne.caxar and PMC media. They have from tens of thousands to a million readers, so the “news” was viewed by more than 700 thousand Telegram users.
Accusing Ukraine of war crimes that it itself is committing is a classic Russian tactic. Thus, in June 2023, propagandists directed their resources to convince the world that Ukraine destroyed the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station dam.
This time, the fake bots went ahead and wrote about “blowing up the dam” even before the attack on it, so that after the attack they could immediately launch a second wave of accusations towards Ukraine, the Center writes.
But in fact, the Russians cynically hit the Dnieper hydroelectric power station’s hydraulic structures and the dam in order to entail a new environmental disaster.
Eight missiles hit the DneproGES, the damage was very significant, said a representative of the Office of the Prosecutor General.
Ukrhydroenergo confirmed that both DneproHPP stations are not working. GES-2 is in critical condition. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of subscribers in a number of regions of Ukraine are without electricity.
Let us remind you that Russia hit the largest Ukrainian hydroelectric power station, DneproGES in Zaporozhye. Russia practiced something similar during World War II. The Dnieper hydroelectric power station was destroyed and restored twice in the post-war period.
On August 18, 1941, security officers of the 157th NKVD regiment guarding the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station blew up the dam. This came as a surprise not so much to the advancing Germans as to the retreating Red Army soldiers. According to historians, from 20 to 100 thousand Soviet military and civilians died. The Germans restored the station, and in the fall of 1943 they tried to blow it up.
Source: Racurs
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