If the Russians blow up the Kachovka hydroelectric plant, 160,000 people could die. birds and more than 20 thousand wild animals.
As Ukrinform writes, this was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, citing Minister Ruslan Strilec.
According to the head of the agency, the flood essentially washed away all of Ukraine’s biodiversity. For example, nine properties on the Emerald Spit are threatened with extinction.
“Restoring these ecosystems to the way nature created them will be next to impossible.” It will take decades. And no amount of money in the world will make our nature unique to us,” the minister lamented.
The official also drew attention to the fact that the flood waters will cause degradation and erosion of the soil, washing away all its fertile layer.
R. Strilec called the loss of a very precious resource – water – one of the consequences of the disaster.
“Until today, we have already lost a third of the water from the Kachovka pond, which accumulated during the spring flood,” the minister noted.
As Ukrinform reports, Ukraine has already lost 6.5 cubic kilometers of water after the Russians blew up the Kachovka HPP dam. About 40,000 liters of water flow from the Kachovka reservoir every second. cubic meters of water.
Source: The Delfi
