"Crimea will remain without water for 10-15 years if Russia blows up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant" - Danilov

Secretary of Ukraine's National Security Council Oleksii Danilov said this in an interview with the British TV channel Sky News.

“We will have to wait and see but if they do blow it 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,” he said. 

In addition, Danilov also recalled that the Russian army mined the Kakhovka Dam "with a large amount of explosives." He also expressed confidence that Great Britain's assistance to Ukraine will continue during the work of 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. 

• Russia may blow up the Kakhovka HPP; the dam breach will flood more than 80 settlements, including Kherson.

• On October 21 Defense Express analyst Serhii Zgurets said he was convinced that blowing up the Kakhovka HPP dam would do more harm to Russian troops on the left bank of the Dnipro River.