Terrorist attack on the Kakhovska HPP: losses of the agricultural sector may reach $1.5 billion

As a result of the undermining of the Kakhovska HPP by Russian troops, losses to the agricultural sector of Ukraine may reach $1.5 billion.

The first damages from the blow-up of the hydroelectric power plant are already today, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Vysotskyi said, Ukrinform reports.

According to him, 10,000 hectares of agricultural land were flooded on the right bank. On the left bank, according to modeling and satellite images, tens of thousands of hectares of land were damaged.

In addition, water was actually supplied from the Kakhovskyi Reservoir to ensure irrigation of about 600,000 hectares of land.

There is no direct damage from flooding on these lands, but without water supply it will not be possible to grow full-fledged products.

“If we estimate how much was grown on these lands in general, it is about 4 million tons of agricultural products. These volumes will be impossible, unavailable for cultivation,” Vysotsky clarified.

Products worth up to $1.5 billion were grown on these lands.

The fishing industry will also suffer significant losses. Previously, the losses of aquaculture and the fishing industry amounted to more than UAH 10 billion. We are talking about direct losses in connection with the plague of fish, the destruction of fish farms.

According to the deputy minister, it is impossible to recover losses quickly. In the following years, fishing in the volumes that were before the explosion of the Kakhovska HPP will not be available.

Vysotsky assured that all losses are fixed and in the future “actions will definitely be taken to compensate them”.

As of the morning of June 9, the level of the Kakhovskyi reservoir in the Nikopol area is 11.74 meters. During the day, the water level in the reservoir dropped by another meter. And since the morning of June 6, the water level has dropped by a total of 4.7 meters.

We will remind you that on the night of June 6, the Russian invaders blew up the Kakhovska HPP. The disaster has already caused tragic consequences in the form of water pollution, a sea of fish and the flooding of the Kherson region. In the occupied territory of the region, people are not evacuated, because of which several deaths are already known.