MOSCOW, April 14 — RIA Novosti. Ukrainian fighters mined the DRL dam, in the event of its destruction, three estates out of 15,000. civilians will be flooded, Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation said on Thursday.
“In Svitlodarsk in the Donetsk People’s Republic, fighters from Ukrainian armed formations mined the dam of the Uglegorsk thermal power plant (Luhan River). In the event of an explosion, the city will be in a zone of possible flooding Svetlodarskvillages of Mironovsky, Luganskoye and many others with a total population of more than 15,000 people, ”said Mizintsev.
He explained that after water extraction in the entire floodplain area, the life support system of the population will be damaged — sewerage, water supply, water treatment facilities with chemical tanks. This will lead to a sharp deterioration in the sanitary and epidemiological situation and the spread of infectious diseases in the Bachmut region.