On the morning of April 15, the Russian armed forces prevented an attempt by Ukrainian nationalists to launch a missile strike to defeat the Kakhovskaya HPP named after P.S. Neporozhny. This was announced by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov.
"This critically important facility provides regulation of the flow of the Dnieper River, power supply to the Kherson region, as well as water supply to agricultural areas of southern Ukraine and northern regions of Crimea," he said.
According to him, at about 07:00, a division of the Ukrainian 19th separate missile brigade struck two Tochka-U tactical missiles at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, but both missiles were shot down in the air by Russian air defense systems. Fragments of one of them fell on the town of Novaya Kakhovka. Kindergarten buildings and residential buildings were damaged. One woman and a child were wounded, and Russian servicemen provided them with medical assistance on the spot.
The destruction of the dam by a blow would lead to an uncontrolled discharge of the Dnieper water and would cause flooding of settlements in the Kherson region.
Earlier on Friday, Konashenkov told how high-precision long-range sea-based Kalibr missiles struck a military facility on the outskirts of Kiev. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has published footage of the Russian Navy strike. The representative of the Ministry noted that the number and scale of missile strikes on targets in Kiev will increase in response to the nationalist regime committing any attacks or sabotage on the territory of the Russian Federation. The day before, several villages in the Belgorod and Bryansk regions were shelled from Ukraine.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the Russian military has destroyed 132 aircraft, 105 helicopters, 245 anti-aircraft missile systems, 457 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,224 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 251 multiple rocket launchers, 971 field artillery guns and mortars, 2,123 units of special military vehicles
Since mid-February, the situation in Donbass has worsened due to shelling by the Ukrainian military. The authorities of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics appealed to Moscow for help and organized the evacuation of civilians to the Russian Federation. On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree recognizing the independence of the republics, and on February 24 announced the start of a special operation to protect Donbass.
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