It is almost impossible to hit the Kyiv hydroelectric power plant with missiles, and everything has been done to protect it, First Deputy Minister of Defence Oleksandr Pavlyuk has told the news telethon, answering the question whether Ukraine is ready to defend the Kyiv HPP from Russian attacks.
"We have done everything possible, knowing that last year, when there were major threats, when I was still in command of the Kyiv defence forces. We did not rule out this possibility so air defence assets have been accumulated in this area. There was a corresponding manoeuvre of forces and means," he said.
According to him, it would take a nuclear explosion to destroy it, or an explosion from the inside, as it happened at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station.
"Because it is very difficult to hit with missiles to inflict such damage, it is almost impossible," Pavliuk said.
Earlier, the commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lt-Gen Serhiy Nayev, said that the Armed Forces had taken appropriate security measures to protect the Kyiv HPP from air strikes and to prevent enemy sabotage.