MOSCOW, November 1. /TASS/. The Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant’s dam could collapse in case of a heavy attack by Ukrainian forces, Kherson Region acting governor, Vladimir Saldo, said on Tuesday.
"It (the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant - TASS) is under the biggest threat. <…> We have information, quite concrete, that the Ukrainian side is plotting a massive, let me stress the word massive, missile strike, because individual strikes, even with the use of 15-20 rockets, can do no serious harm. It would be troublesome but the dam would remain intact. But in case of a massive missile attack, the dam may collapse," he said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 television channel.
Saldo said on October 18 that people living on the Dnieper right bank would be relocated to the left bank due to the risk of flooding triggered by Ukraine’s attack on the Kakhovka hydropower plant. On October 31, he said that the evacuation zone on the left-bank part of the region would be expanded to a distance of 15 kilometers from the Dnieper.