Ukraine was aware of the plans of the Russian Federation to attack the Kakhovsk hydroelectric power station, but not on such a scale

According to the director of Ukrhydroenergo Igor Orphan, it was even obvious that the Russians wanted to replace the equipment and undermine the units to make the station not working. In September 2022, Ukraine became aware of the intentions of Russia to replace and undermine the Kakhovsk hydroelectric power station, but at that time no one thought that the occupiers would destroy the entire station completely.

This was stated in an interview with "We - Ukraine" by Igor Orphan CEO of Ukrhydroenergo. In particular, he said that the invaders began to bring explosives to the Kakhovsk hydroelectric power station in advance. Therefore, it was already clear that the Russians wanted to replace the equipment and undermine the units to make the station not working.

"We thought that by seeing the counter -offensive of the Armed Forces then in Kharkiv and Kherson, the Russians wanted to replace equipment and undermine the units so that we remained a poor station. . We will remind, on July 2, 2023 the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak showed what looks Dnipro in the area of ​​the Dnieper hydroelectric power plant after the blasting by Russian troops of the dams of Kakhovka hydroelectric power station.