Over 11,000 tonnes of fish worth US$270 million lost due to blowing up of Kakhovka HPP – Agricultural Policy Ministry
Pravda Ukraine
As a result of the Russians blowing up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (Kakhovka HPP) and the draining of the Kakhovka Reservoir all fish have been destroyed – that is 11,400 tonnes.
Source: Mykola Solskyi, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, in an interview with Forbes
Details: Solskyi explained that after the destruction of the water reservoir, the fish were washed away with the flow to the lower reaches of the Dnipro River in Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts and ended up on floodplain land.