MOSCOW, April 15. /TASS/. Russian air defense forces have foiled the Kiev regime’s attempt to hit the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant with a missile strike, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Friday.
"On the morning of April 15, the Russian armed forces thwarted the Kiev nationalist regime’s attempt to hit the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant named after P.S. Neporozhny with a missile strike," Konashenkov said. "At about 7 a.m. Moscow time, a division of Ukraine’s 19th Missile Brigade attacked the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant with two Tochka-U tactical missiles."
According to the spokesman, both missiles were shot down in midair by Russian air defense.
"Debris from one of them crashed on Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson Region. The kindergarten and residential buildings were damaged. A woman and a child were wounded and were given first aid by Russian service members at the scene. They have now been taken to a medical facility," the spokesman said.
Konashenkov said that the hydroelectric power plant regulates the flow of the Dnieper River, generates electricity for the Kherson Region and supplies water to the agricultural areas of southern Ukraine and northern Crimea.
"If the dam of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant had been destroyed with the strike, this would have resulted in the uncontrolled discharge of the Dnieper water and in flooding of numerous inhabited localities in the Kherson Region along with people to pin down the Russian armed forces," Konashenkov stressed.