Mitigating threats: Head of Ukrhydroenergo discusses underground PSPP and threats to Kyiv

"Even if the Russians had launched a massive missile attack on the Kyiv HPP and managed to pierce the dam, a repeat of the disaster that happened in Kherson Oblast is impossible," Ukrhydroenergo CEO Ihor Syrota tells LIGA.net.

Statements about "preparations for a terrorist attack" at the Kyiv and Kaniv hydroelectric power plants, which Russia has begun to spread, are manipulative techniques, he assures.

"First, accuse someone of blowing them up, and then blow them up yourself," explains Syrota. "All these statements by Russia are solely to sow chaos and panic in Ukraine."