The Armed Forces wanted to seize a lake that supplies Kharkiv drinking water - a serviceman (video)

The invaders wanted to seize the Pechenezh reservoir, thus blocking the Kharkiv access to drinking water and provoking a humanitarian catastrophe. The Russians aimed to seep in small groups in the north of the Kharkiv region, securing there to the approach of the main forces and to create a number of bridgeheads, to later reach the distance of the fire damage to the regional center. The serviceman, the chairman of the Council of Reservists of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ivan Timochko told this.

In the future, according to him, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation wanted to cover the city from the flanks, because the forces of the invaders are not enough for frontal attacks. In addition, the Russians set themselves the goal of control of the Oscil reservoir, with the calculation of seizing the Seversky Donets, who lives with water agglomeration Kramatorsk - Slavyansk, said Ivan Tymochko.

"And then try to move to the Pechenezh Reservoir to control the supply of water to Kharkiv," - added the serviceman, assuming that the Russians wanted to undermine the dam, creating an ecological catastrophe and sowing a large -scale panic in Ukrainian society. It should be noted that the Pechenezh reservoir of 86. 2 km was commissioned in 1962 for the supply of Kharkiv fresh water. The depth of the artificial lake reaches almost 4. 5 meters. The volume of water is 0. 383 km3.

We will remind, the chairman of the Council of Reservists of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces Ivan Timochko noted that Russian invaders in Kharkiv region during their offensive wanted to create certain environmental disasters. Focus wrote that in September 2022, Russian troops tried to destroy the dam of the Pechenezh reservoir in order to prevent the crossing of the Armed Forces.