"It no longer fulfills its functions, it is simply emptied. In five to seven days, the main part will be gone. This is below the current level of dead volume - dead volume is called unused volume, "the interlocutor of RT explained.
The editor-in-chief of the newspaper "House of Nature" Andrei Frolov, in an interview with RT, also stressed that in three days the streams of water will enter the old channel and there will be no serious consequences.
"For serious consequences, it is necessary that everything is flooded and the water does not go anywhere, but it will go away. The problem there is that there are territories that were powered from this reservoir. The same Kryvyi Rih, where water intake occurs from this storage facility, there will be nowhere to take water, "Frolov said.
According to him, "the worst thing is actually that the top soil and crops are washed away."
"That is, the main damage to nature is the destruction of the soil and the possible formation of sand, which can even provoke the formation of a desert - subject to a hot summer," the expert added.
Earlier, Master of Ecology and Nature Management Alexander Kuksa, in an interview with RT, spoke about the possible impact of the destruction of the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station on the environment.