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Russians Blow Up Nova Kakhovka Dam

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ichkeria | 04:55 Tue 06th Jun 2023 | News
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in Kherson oblast

This is likely to have caused a tsunami type flood potentially killing thousands

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russia-blows-up-major-nova-kakhovka-dam-southern-ukraine-2023-06-06/
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It would make no sense for Ukraine to flood an entire area just to cut off Crimea's water: especially if they intend reclaiming it.
In any case, the water from that canal is primarily for irrigating (that's probably not the appropriate word) Crimean agriculture, about which I daresay the russians care little, not if they think it will stymie a Ukrainian advance on the peninsula. Driking water can be sourced elsewhere if need be.
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"The claims by the warring sides have not been verified by the BBC."

That is the sort of sentence that really ***** me off
'Blowing a dam won’t save Putin from being swept away by Ukraine’s counter-offensive.
The main offensive is imminent. Russia’s conscripts are low on morale, leadership and training – and doomed to defeat
Putin must be petrified. For over a year now, and arguably since 2014, his criminal, terrorist, mercenary and conscript forces have terrorised Ukraine and its people. Now Kyiv’s forces are set to bring the fight to Russia’s doorstep. Blowing the dam shows how just how scared Moscow’s floundering army is. It’s a blatant delaying tactic, attempting to hold off the counter-offensive for just a few more days. But soon there’ll be no secrets – and nowhere for Putin’s soldiers to hide.'

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Think on this:
Russia claims the whole of Kherson region is “part of Russia”. They claimed to have annexed it last year.
And yet they are now it seems preventing people in the occupied area for leaving their flooded dwellings.
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Dead right khandro (and DT) - these actions betray Russia’s criminality but also their desperation
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A Swedish volunteer in Kherson says Russians have been systematically blowing smaller dams in the area over the last couple of days
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Russian actions across the whole of Ukraine’s agricultural belt are starving the region of the water it needs from the Dnipro to irrigate it.
This will not only disrupt Ukraine’s economy but will I would imagine cause a worldwide grain shortage
> That is the sort of sentence that really ***** me

To be fair (or more unfair), Rishi Sunak and "intelligence agencies" is also not saying who bombed the dam ...

https://news.sky.com/story/nova-khakovka-new-low-if-russia-behind-dam-attack-rishi-sunak-12897854

A bit odd, as you'd think allies would just believe what they say to each other ...
Off message, Ellipsis, off message.
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I don't think anyone is in any serious doubt: but knowing who is responsible and providing intelligence on it are not the same thing.
US intelligence, as I reported above, has already pronounced on this.

Apparently you need a Russian passport in occupied kherson in order to be rescued ...
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Meanwhile, as attention focuses on the dam, Russian losses have snowballed since June 5. Daily losses of personnel eere averaging 400-55. Over the last two days it's been near to 900.
In the first 5 months of 2023 Russia lost 186 artillery tubes per month. In the first 6 days of June alone they have lost 166.
They are already assessed to be running low on artillery and, you would think, also specialist artillery operators.
What have these people done to deserve this senselessness ?
https://ibb.co/J7TByVw
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It’s worse even than that. Russians have been shooting at civilians stranded on their roofs trying to escape the floodwater. And using machine guns to down drones carrying bottles of water sent by Ukraine from the other side
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Meanwhile there are reports of significant Ukrainian advances in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhya in what is either the counteroffensive proper or more likely preliminary toe-resting of ruzzian defences
I hope I'm still around to see justice carried out for these crimes as one day it must be.
Isn’t blowing the dam to stop electricity being generated and hamper Ukraine’s war effort?
Devastating the area is just collateral damage to the Russians.
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Has several consequences:
Destroying the irrigation system for the wheat and sunflower fields. Restricting drinking water to people both down and upstream.
They probably imagine it’ll slow Ukraine’s military advance but that one I don’t think is going to work
All part of the genocide. They are not lifting a finger it seems to help any of the stricken people on their side of the river. On the contrary. As previously observed
A big irony here again.
The sub human boss reasons that he invaded Ukraine in his ‘Special Operation’ was to rid the Ukraine of fascist Nazis. ‘Special operation ‘‘sounds like sonderkommando
Putin is using the same scorched earth policy that the Fascist Nazis used on Russia during their retreat after Barbarossa. :-(
It seems incredible to me that Rishi Sunak, whom I watched yesterday seemingly uncertain as to who was responsible (if that's the right word!) for blowing the dam.

Charles Moore writing in today's Spectator isn't so pusillanimous;

"When I first heard that the Russians had blown up the Kakhovka dam, I assumed that this was an effective tactic to frustrate the Ukrainian counteroffensive. It will surely slow it. But a Ukrainian friend raises an additional possibility – that these are the scorched-earth tactics the Germans used in much the same places 80 years ago. Writing from Kyiv, she quotes a letter from Himmler to the SS commander in Ukraine in September 1943: ‘It is necessary to make sure that when retreating from Ukraine, not a single person, not a single animal, not a single gram of grain, not a single metre of railway track is there, so that not a single house survives… The enemy must be a totally burned and devastated country.’ She thinks Putin’s only tactic is to ‘make Ukraine unliveable in order to force an end to resistance’. This is a shockingly believable thought. The cold comfort in it is that, if the fate of the Nazis is anything to go by, this is the policy of a power facing defeat:"
I read this morning, that there are floating land mines to contend with now. That'll create more indiscriminate harm to civilians.

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