Danilov: Crimea will have no water supply for 10-15 years if Russians blow Kakhovka HPP up

"We will have to wait and see but if they do blow it [Kakhovka HPP] up then the idea of water supply in Crimea will be gone for 10 or 15 years, or maybe forever. Then the question arises as to why they want Crimea if they are going to leave it without water," Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov said in an interview with the British TV channel Sky News.

Danilov noted that the Russian army had mined the Kakhovka dam "with a huge amount of explosives."

The NSDC Secretary also expressed confidence that Great Britain's assistance to Ukraine would continue under the new prime minister.

"I am more than sure that the next prime minister will do the same for our country, as Johnson and Truss did, and it will be a continuation of the great help that the people of Great Britain are doing,” he said.

As reported, Kyrylo Budanov, Head of the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said that if the Russian Federation blew the Kakhovka dam up, it would prevent the advance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for two weeks, while the North Crimea Canal and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant would not be able to function due to the drop in water levels.

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