The cause of the destruction of the Kakhovskaya HPP could be the undermining of an underwater passage. There is a possibility that there was an "Achilles heel" deep inside the dam.
This is reported by The New York Times.
The publication, citing experts and its own investigation, believes that the undermining of the underwater passage to the engine room is the most likely cause of the disaster at the Kakhovskaya HPP.
According to journalists, engineers from Ukraine and the USA assure that there was an "Achilles heel" deep inside the dam.
Engineers recalled that the dam was built in Soviet times, so Moscow had every page of the engineering drawings and knew where the most vulnerable part was.
According to two American engineers, based on satellite and seismic data of explosions in the area, the most likely cause of the collapse was an explosive charge placed in a service corridor or tunnel that runs through the concrete heart of the structure.
"If your goal is to destroy the dam itself, you need a powerful explosion. The passage is an ideal place to place this explosive charge," geotechnical engineer Michael West, director of Wiss, Janney, Elstner, is confident.
Undermining Kakhovskaya HPP
On Tuesday, June 6, the Russian military blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. As a result of this terrorist attack on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region, approximately 16,000 people were injured.
Coastal areas and the left bank, which is controlled by the occupiers, were the most affected.
In addition, instead of helping the people who remained on the occupied left bank of the Kherson region, the Russians are actively shelling the affected areas. Over the past day, two people were killed and another 25 people were injured due to shelling in the Kherson region.
