I have a feeling we are going to be hearing a lot about the
Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant
in the next few days.
Multiple sources say it is destroyed.
It is
- The source of water for the Crimean Peninsula
- The reservoir for the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
- A major source of electricity in the Russian controlled regions.
The effects are massive for and against both sides of this conflict.
- Slowing potential Ukrainian Advances
- Adding difficulty to Dnieper river crossings
- Flooding Russian defensive fortifications and mine fields
- Losing power and water supplies to vast regions of Russian controlled Ukraine
- Further disrupting nuclear plant operations.
And to complicate things even more it could be an engineering failure rather than as a result of a controlled demolition or attack. I am going to be watching this one closely.