MOSCOW, March 22. /TASS/. The Dnieper 2 Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) is "in critical condition" after its turbine room and electrical equipment were seriously damaged, Ukrhydroenergo Director Igor Sirota said.

According to him, the facility has suffered significant damage.

"We are losing the station. The HPP-2 is in danger. We don’t know at what capacity it will be able to operate. The HPP-2 is in critical condition. The HPP-1 has also stopped operations, so we are doing everything we can to raise the gates and process the water," Ukraine’s Strana media outlet quoted him as saying.

Sirota specified that the supporting structure of the HPP-2 had been damaged and crane rails had been destroyed. "We will have to fully rebuild the turbine room and repair electrical equipment," he added, noting that there was no threat of a dam break.

According to earlier reports, power supplies were suspended to several districts of the Kiev-controlled city of Zaporozhye following a series of explosions. The patrol police also reported that the road above the Dnieper HPP dam had been partially closed to traffic.