“The situation in the national parks is critical”: the explosion of the Kakhovskaya HPP caused damage to the environment of 55 billion hryvnias

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Russia blew up the Kakhovskaya HPP and threatened the disappearance of 30% of the natural reserve fund of the Kherson Region. The approximate amount of damage to the environment due to the occupiers’ detonation of the Kakhovskaya HPP is 55 billion hryvnias, the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine, Ruslan Strilets, said. Currently, 62% of its volume or 12.24 km3 of water has leaked from the Kakhovsky reservoir. The water level in the reservoir is already 10.55 m and it continues to decrease, says the minister. Read also: The sea is turning into a dump and a cemetery for animals – DPSU on the consequences of blowing up the hydroelectric power station Photo: Kostyantyn and Vlada Liberovy The situation in national parks is also critical. The occupiers caused damages of more than UAH 46 billion to the Nizhnyodniprovskyi National Park alone. “The situation in the national parks is critical. 30% of the natural reserve fund of the Kherson region is under threat of disappearance. Water from the Kakhovsky Reservoir leveled the Nizhnyodniprovskyi National Park with the water mirror. The shallowing of the water area in the “Veliky Lug” national parks continues – by 4.2 meters and “Kamyanska Sich” – by 6 meters,” the minister wrote on his Facebook. The Oleshkiv sands occupied by the Russians are threatened by rising groundwater. Also, about 1,200 hectares of the territory of the Kinburn Peninsula have already been flooded due to the explosion of the Kakhovskaya HPP dam. Environmental inspectors, national park workers, watermen and foresters at the site of the ecological disaster continue to record evidence of the occupiers’ crimes. Read also: Rescued roe deer and beavers on the streets. How animals suffer from the undermining of the Kakhovskaya HPP

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