Russia has mined hydro dam and plans to blow it up, Zelensky warns

The devastation caused by Russia’s plot to destroy a hydroelectric dam in Ukraine would be akin to dropping an atomic bomb, an expert has warned.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said last night Vladimir Putin’s forces had mined the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant and planned to blow it up it, in a bid to cover their retreat from the city of Kherson with a vast deluge of water.

Hundreds of thousands of people living around the lower Dnipro River would be in danger of rapid flooding if the…