This is mentioned in a post on the Facebook page "Kremenchug. Official," which is owned by the Kremenchug City Council.
It is noted that if the hydropower plant is destroyed, the central and right-bank parts of Kremenchug, as well as nearby settlements—Potoki, Mala Kohnovka, Sosnovka, and Pridnepryanske—will be in the flood zone.
In the event of such a disaster, mandatory evacuation of the population is planned within the community. The start of the evacuation will be announced through centralized notification systems, media, street loudspeakers, official websites, and Telegram channels of local authorities.
The likely flood zones are divided into microdistricts. It has been determined that residents of the left bank should evacuate to the hilly part of Kremenchug, while residents of the right bank should head to Deevskaya Mountain. The addresses of the evacuation points can be found via link.
If residents cannot reach the evacuation point in time, they should go above the second floor of their or the nearest building and wait for the water to recede or for rescuers to arrive.
Afterward, residents will be taken to safe areas in the Poltava and Kirovohrad regions.
The city authorities did not clarify why they decided to publish these instructions on November 18. The last time this was written about was in June 2023, after Russians blew up the Kakhovka HPP.
On June 6, 2023, Russian occupiers blew up the dam of the Kakhovka HPP. "Ukrhydroenergo" reported that the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station is beyond restoration.
Ukrainian intelligence reported that this was orchestrated by a Russian sabotage group. The EU's chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, emphasized that the dam was not bombed but destroyed with explosives in territory controlled by Russia. The Norwegian company NORSAR analyzed seismic activity and confirmed that the dam was destroyed as a result of an explosion. The explosion was also recorded by American reconnaissance satellites.
The explosion led to flooding in the territories of Mykolaiv and Kherson regions, particularly in the occupied areas. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 31 people died as a result of the destruction of the Kakhovka HPP. The occupiers claimed that 55 people died in the captured lands of Kherson region but did not allow international humanitarian organizations into those areas.
After the destruction of the Kakhovka HPP dam, 180 settlements in the Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, and Mykolaiv regions, with a population of about 900,000 people, found themselves in a state of emergency affected.
Almost 700,000 Ukrainians were left without access to drinking water. Experts from the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute concluded that the Kakhovka Reservoir no longer exists.