Originally Posted by
meleagertoo
Why blow the dam - a monumental task - when you can just open the 28 vast sluice-gates that retain the water?
Take this with a truckload of salt, considering the source, but about 12 hours ago Russian TV station NTV, citing the collaborationist head of the Kherson administration, was claiming they started to dump water from the reservoir:
Automatic translation:
Water is being discharged at the Kakhovskaya HPP, it has already been calculated that Kherson will not fall under flooding, but there is a danger for private areas, said Saldo
Earlier, he said that water from the Kakhovka reservoir is preventively sent to the North Crimean and Kakhovka canals in order to reduce its discharge into the Dnieper in case of damage to the locks of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.