Office of the President announces that Kakhovka dam will be rebuilt, but "it will take years"

The Ukrainian government plans to rebuild the Kakhovka Dam destroyed by russians after the liberation of the territories, but it will take years.

This was stated by Rostyslav Shurma, Deputy Head of the Office of President Andriy Yermak, in an interview with Telegraf.

"Kakhovka HPP is a hydroelectric power plant that was an important element of the energy system. That is why there was another blow to Ukraine's energy capacities," he said when asked about the consequences of the dam's destruction.

"This is a problem of water supply for several regions, as a large number of towns and villages were supplied with drinking water, in fact, from the Kakhovka reservoir. And, of course, there is a problem of irrigation in the southern part of Ukraine: Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions. It was also due to the Kakhovka reservoir. Therefore, probably up to 80% of all irrigation systems will lose their water supply source," emphasized Shurma, who is in charge of the economic direction in the OP.

"Of course, after the victory, we must rebuild this dam. I can't say how long it will take, but obviously it will take years," he said.

Shurma emphasized that due to the occupiers' undermining of the dam, Ukraine suffers significant losses in agricultural production.

"We should probably talk about the total number of flooded areas, which will amount to tens of thousands of hectares. And the loss of hundreds of thousands of hectares. Whether it will be 300, 400 or 500 thousand hectares is still difficult to estimate. The water is coming and will continue to come for days. It may take more than a week for the Kakhovka reservoir to empty. But we can already talk about hundreds of thousands of lost irrigation systems," the official said.

Background. Earlier, the USPA warned that the explosion of the Kakhovka HPP does not threaten shipping in the Danube region and the ports of Greater Odesa.