The Nova Kakhovka Dam, located in southern Ukraine along the Dnipro River, was destroyed on Tuesday. While Kiev and Moscow are accusing each other of the attack, Russia will suffer more consequences of the dam’s destruction.
The dam was built by the USSR during the 1950s and, for over a year, has sat on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine. It is nearly 100 feet tall and over 10,000 feet wide. The dam was constructed as a hydroelectric power plant and created the Kakhovka Reservoir, which is over 2,000 sq km. Europe’s largest nuclear power plant – the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) and the Crimean Peninsula receive water from the reservoir.
An explosion reportedly ripped through the dam on Tuesday morning, causing flooding to begin downstream. It is unclear if the attack was intentional. The BBC noted the dam had been damaged within the last week.
The most immediate impact of the dam’s destruction is flooding surrounding areas, which is expected to displace at least 16,000 people. A Ukrainian official said eight towns have already been partially or completely flooded. The flooding is expected to be worse in areas controlled by Russia.
The region will also suffer environmental damage from the flooding and tonnes of industrial lubricant used in the hydroelectric power plant.
Another concern is the ZNPP, which is controlled by Russian forces. The Kakhovka Reservoir provided cooling water to the massive power plant. The IAEA, the UN’s nuclear watchdog group, said it is “closely monitoring the situation,” but there is “no immediate nuclear safety risk.”
Kiev immediately blamed Moscow for the attack, calling it a “terrorist attack and war crime.” Ukraine’s Defense Ministry suggested Russia destroyed the dam as a tactical defense of the region.
Ukrainian President Zelensky claimed it was impossible for Ukrainians to have carried out the dam’s destruction. "Russia has been controlling the dam and the entire Kakhovka HPP for more than a year. It is physically impossible to blow it up somehow from the outside, by shelling." He continued, "It was mined by the Russian occupiers. And they blew it up."
However, last year, Ukrainian Maj. Gen. Andriy Kovalchuk told the Washington Post he considered attacking the dam during Ukraine’s counteroffensive last year. "Kovalchuk considered flooding the river." The Post reported. "The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages. The test was a success, Kovalchuk said."
Kremlin Spokesperson Dimitry Peskov said Ukrainian forces were behind the destruction of the dam. “The president receives reports through the Defense Ministry and other services on what is happening around the Kakhovka HPP. Here we can already say unequivocally that this is deliberate sabotage by the Ukrainian side,” he said.
The attack on the dam will impact a core Russian concern in Ukraine. Through the 250-mile-long Northern Crimean Canal, the Kakhovka Reservoir feeds water to the peninsula that Moscow annexed in 2014. Before the invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin regularly issued demands to Kiev that irrigation systems supplying water to Crimea remain open.
Peskov said part of Kiev’s motivation for the attack was depriving Crimea of water. "The water level in the reservoir is dropping, hence, the water supply to the [North Crimean] canal is drastically reduced,” the spokesman said, adding, “Apparently, this sabotage is also due to the fact that, having launched large-scale offensive operations two days ago, the Ukrainian armed forces have been unable to achieve their aims. Their operations are stalled.”
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
Whoever did it stopped a battle where thousands would die with water instead.
I’m kind of waiting for Hersh to share before I’ll be totally sure who did this.
Kiev is going for a drenched earth strategy… To bring about a nuclear contaminated strategy, or “If I can’t have it – nobody can!” strategy.
On orders from Washington,
Pretty ludicrous to believe that Russia would take out a dam that feeds water to farms in Southern Ukraine, and to the Russian citizens of Crimea. Kind of like believing Russia took out Nord Stream pipelines.
Not ludicrous. Another Russian war crime. Their incompetence in opening the sluices to relieve an overfilled reservoir led to damage to the dam. Russians just finished it off with explosives to make the area around Kherson impassible to any Ukrainian counteroffensive. Tactically smart but strategically dumb. That’s a pretty regular Russian thing.
And why was the reservoir overfilled? Because the Ukrainians had been releasing water into it to raise the water level specifically for the purpose of creating as much damage as possible when the dam broke (which they had already been planning to do last year)! I guess you didn’t know about the Ukrainians whacking at the floodgates with three HIMARS to see what they’d need to blow the dam- and this was last year!
last year, Ukrainian Maj. Gen. Andriy Kovalchuk told the Washington Post he considered attacking the dam
No, they did a test strike to see if they could raise the water level to impede Russian troops. All evidence so far points to Russia blowing up the dam. (In their minds it would stop the Ukrainian counteroffensive. That makes sense to an incompetent military leadership.)
I am not sure if you are not just sarcastic?
It will be dry in 6 months and will have stopped the hapless Ukrainians in the meantime….
If the Russians did it.
If the Ukrainians did it, then it does relueve them of needing troops to stop Russians in this area.
Ukraine unlike Russua does not have the size of scale that can withstand parity, little alone losses on the battlefield.
“Ukraine unlike Russia does not have the size of scale that can withstand parity, little alone losses on the battlefield.”
This is the most embarrassing part, the little outnumbered country is giving the big one a big black eye.
The little one would have used a brain instead of muscle power he knew he does not have, but he trusted the monster in hiding whispering that it would protect the little one.
The little country is being wiped out and the monster broke its word, it is feeding the little country to the big country for as long as it takes.
Do you want Russia to start a serious push to take everything or just continue to sit on what they have and wait for the inevitable collapse of Ukraine?
They can withstand these casualty levels way more than Ukraine can. Those Nazi battalians only have so many Nazis to draw from in Ukraine.
The only serious push Russia can start is by Nuking Ukraine which it will not do, other than that, they are unable to regain any offensive momentum. If anyone is in risk of collapsing, that will be Russia.
Nazi battalions? I see the Azov Neo Nazis are getting bigger, from 300 troops to battalions (thousands). BTW, 250 super dangerous Neo Nazis from Azov were released last August on a prisoner exchange. So much for the de-nazification BS.
Maybe the Russians would nuke Washington, London, Berlin, and Paris first. They do have more than enough nuclear war heads.
opening the sluices to relieve an overfilled reservoir doesn’t lead to damage to a dam – the whole purpose of a sluice is to relieve pressure on a dam or keep it from overflowing
If operated properly. If operated incompetently, the water will move around the dam and begin undermining.
If you’re comfortable with saying Russia just blew it up — without screwing up the level of water in the reservoir — I’m not gonna argue with you
i am not comfortable with saying that russia even blew it up at all.
i’m pretty sure that you know that already which would make what you just said some kind of feeble attempt at shillery.
i recommend that you go get your supervisor
That requires irrational people, Putin and his people are not irrational, the oligarchs in KIEV and DC are irrational. The Zelenskyy/Biden/Nuland combination is telling.
Victoria Nuland get named again! I get to drink a shot!
You tankies really need new material.
“I’m not irrational! Your irrational” is such a solid argument.
Bro, if I had a nickel for every time I read those. She forgot Sullivan.
Who do you think is really in charge of Biden if not Nuland?
To my knowledge the Soviet Russians had build the dam. And to my knowledge it looks like the Ukrainians have lost their senses some time ago, they are cornered and running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Pretty understandable considering the circumstances.
Russians did a lot for the Ukrainians, including the NPP. Americans are a wrecking crew, not builders, look at the ME and the rim of Africa, Libya and Egypt and Gaza.
I won’t argue that the US hasn’t done some monstrously bad shit in the recent past but helping Ukraine is the opposite of that.
There is no evidence that Ukraine is disheveled at all. I seems they’ve been patiently waiting for their moment.
Saying the Russians/Soviets built the dam and then implying that therefore then can destroy it is asinine.
What purpose would it serve the Russians to blow up the dam? What is rational on the Biden/neocon politics? The have cornered themselves with no way out. Nothing they do makes sense, they can’t even explain why they did what they did. The destruction of the dam is meaningless and is the product of sick, irrational minds. People in panic act like that. Putin is not the one in panic.
“What purpose would it serve the Russians to blow up the dam?”
Suppose you are a Russian military planner.
And suppose that you have information — for example, satellite photos, communications intercepts, activity observations, etc. — indicating that the Ukrainians plan a large-scale military action in the area which would be flooded by the dam’s destruction.
You know that they’ve been positioning large numbers of troops in or near that area. You know that their ammo and supply stockpiles in or near that area have been getting larger for weeks or months. You know that train and truck traffic into the area has been increasing for weeks.
Now you COULD choose to pour more of your own manpower and materiel into the same area for a stand-up fight — letting the Ukrainians choose the battlefield and the time frame.
Or you COULD choose to ruin all their careful planning, destroy (or at least require movement out of) a whole bunch of ammo, rations, etc., while freeing up your own manpower and materiel for the fight you want to have, at the time and in the place you want to have it.
If they would have wanted that they could have done it a long time ago, they could have turned Kiev to dust many times over. Why did they not do it??? The Russians had a reasonable limited goal from the start. They wanted fair treatment for Russian speaking Ukrainians and border security in return for neutrality for Ukraine. In what way is that not reasonable, compare to what US Biden did. He wanted the war, he wanted the breakup of Russia and regime change, he said so, he and Austin both are on record. That is in clear English, no obfuscation at all. Putin submitted the Russian position on paper in Dec. 2021, that too is well documented.
With or without satellite photos the destruction of the dam is just another idiotic act of war which serves no one, it is another act of insanity. And the Ukrainians are the only plausible idiots with deniable support of the idiots in DC.
Biden is not the only deranged person in Washington, he has lots of company including the entire congress and the greedy multimillion $$$ paid MSM pundits and journalists.
When you sacrifice thousands of young lives for a lost cause that is criminal, insanity is no excuse for such criminality.
That is what Zlenskyy and his oligarchs are doing to the Ukrainians when they refuse any diplomatic negotiation as they did since Dec. 2021. They KNEW, the neocons, Biden/Nuland/Sullivan/Blinken and all the others know it.
There is no excuse for their crimes, none. Morally they are the pits.
I agree. There is no excuse for Zelenskyy’s, Biden’s, or Putin’s crimes.
And yet you keep making excuses for one of those three.
Yes, everyone keeps insisting that evil requires one side be good. This is the moral equivalent of a fist fight between prisoners on death row.
When you have credible evidence of Putin’s crimes I will accept that, so far there is no evidence at all, not even to support the politically motivates arrest warrant against Putin. It is just another shi**y political trick incompetent losers use. I make no excuse, because no excuse is needed. Putin is doing his job in service of the Russian nation, he is not serving us, that would be treason. The NATO member German government is doing just that. Zelensky is committing treason, he sold the Ukrainian nation to the USA for cannon fodder.
There is evidence of war crimes committed by Azov people and not once did Biden speak out, not once did he even acknowledge that.
Thomas, there is nothing for Americans left to be proud of. I speak up in the name of my children and grandchildren, I refuse to be an accomplice in the slaughter of Ukrainians and Russian soldiers, it is genocide, a war crime.
“When you have credible evidence of Putin’s crimes I will accept that”
Glad to hear it. Generally a public confession is treated as evidence, so I’ll just refer you to any video of Putin’s speech announcing the Russian invasion of Ukraine and consider that job done.
“there is nothing for Americans left to be proud of.”
What, you think there was something for Americans to be proud of before last February?
What about Bush’s Iraq invasion ? Are Bush and all the accomplices like Biden war criminals or not?
Your problem is your double standard, Iraq is only one of many USA wars of aggression not to mention the bloody regime changes and all the other crimes. By American law Biden is guilty because he could have prevented the war instead he provoked it going years back, starting in 2014.
“What about Bush’s Iraq invasion ? Are Bush and all the accomplices like Biden war criminals or not?”
Absolutely. As I’ve been saying for more than two decades now.
Fantasizing that I have a “double standard” is just that — fantasizing.
You simply avoid past history, that is why I did ask the question. It is in the context of current history.
In your imagination, I “avoid past history.”
In reality, you just hate it that I don’t pretend your preferred thug is a morally superior variety of thug.
Your thinking is not rational at all, Ukraine has been destroyed, while they were waiting patiently for their moment as you call it, I don’t know what for, they threw their nation under the train not just a bus, you can even see that if you live on the moon. The population is down to less than half, due to casualties and refugees. The refugees will never come back. So, what is it the oligarchs in Kiev are waiting for. Get real, be rational, open your eyes and ears!!!
You gotten yourself worked up into a lather there, my friend. (Don’t try to sell it so hard!) What they’re waiting for us to most opportune time to attack. (Neither you nor I know when that is.)
If Russia has already been triumphant then they don’t need you in a cheerleader outfit on the internet.
I have a conscience. To speak up against such horrendous crime and no end in sight is a moral duty. I did not vote for a criminal administration, I do not pay taxes to fund a killing machine. To speak up is all I can do, my sense of humanity dictates not to be silent when they commit crimes in the name of a non existing Democracy.
To be silent makes us accomplices.
Morally, that is an outstanding virtue — and I commend you for it. However, to have that virtue and still dismiss the Russian aggression in starting this war make you seem foolish.
There is a context which you ignore, Russia was provoked, Putin offered to negotiate a settlement, but he was turned down, so Russians reacted in self-defense against the well known USA/NATO aggressor. That is why the majority of the global nations support Russia and not the USA. Ukrainians, the USA/NATO proxies, are the victims. They are being forced to fight to the last man standing, to the annihilation of their homeland.
The war criminals are in Washington DC.
And everything you wrote is horsesh*t.
So you have nothing to say to prove me wrong.
Did you know, the Ukrainians voted for peace and not for NATO membership?
Do the Minsk agreements mean anything to you?
Why do you support the slaughter of the Ukrainians and the destruction of their homeland?
Why is USA/NATO involved, what for?
Why did Obama/Biden/Nuland do a regime change of a democratically elected Ukraine president? Do you know why? The Russian people know what they are fighting for, but we don’t know why we are funding the bloodbath.
You’re regurgitating Russian talking points. None of what you write is true. Prove you wrong? History proves you wrong but you’ll dismiss it as US propaganda and/or MSM bias. It must be fantastic to live in a world where you pick a side (doesn’t matter which) and NOTHING anyone says or writes makes any difference.
Tell you what? Prove yourself right. It’ll be fun to watch.
Not a rational reply, it is your job to prove me wrong.
Not my job. Keep deluding yourself.
They have been waiting for an opportune time to attack, is one year enough? They had all the weapons and funding and have accomplished nothing but putting their country in ruins. So, what more are they waiting for? The country is in ruins and the population is less than half now. You talk as if you think they are stronger now and after all the dying and bleeding they are strong enough and now can win?
Get real come down to earth take your head out of the clouds.
‘The population is down to less than half, due to casualties and refugees. The refugees will never come back. ‘
This line right here tells me you are highly uninformed.
Prove me wrong, allegations don’t count, facts are required.
Irrational Thinker checking in from Ground Zero in Ukraine.
You’ve checked in from ground zero too. We’ve all done it. You just don’t like what he provides cause you are in the other team.
Yep, we all know Russia never targets civilian infrastructure especially if it can stop a potential counter offensive vector in that area.
BTW, Russia has targeted other Dams in Ukraine since the war started.
It was pretty ludicrous to believe that Russia would conduct a full scale invasion of Ukraine 17 months ago and here we are talking about how ludicrous is the believe Russia would do anything like blowing up a Dam.
What a ludicrous chaos has Russia caused and yet, we have the audacity to blame Ukraine, West, Sullivan, Blinken, Nuland, and Biden for it.
“What a ludicrous chaos has Russia caused and yet, we have the audacity to blame Ukraine, West, Sullivan, Blinken, Nuland, and Biden for it.’
That would be because you refuse to go back in history to beyond those 17 months when laying blame for the present situation.
“It is unclear if the attack was intentional.”
This is some fine journalism.
What, would you have rather had pretend clarity?
Deniability is much more important than clarity.
Sort of like how the politicians and the MSM use the ‘unnamed or unsubstantiated source’ to push a lie.
“It is unclear if the attack was intentional.”
just to be fair, somebody over there might have pulled a trigger accidentally.
like Major Frank Burns shooting his own toe off.
It is not too complicated. Ukraine’s fury is translating in viciousness, and nothing is sacred. I think West needs to reconsider who they are dealng with. If the bunker mentality in Kiev continues, they are likely to take their anger at Europe or US or the whole world. We promised them victory, and they have every right to demand we step up and go to war for them. If not, they will take us down with them. There are plenty of environmental disasters to be had to poison our air and water.
So, they have flooded villages, and taken water away from Crimea, Breaking that dam was what Ukrsine threatened with many a time before.
Who is the more reliable partner to Europe — Russia or an unhinged Ukraine? . Always was unhinged, internally divided. While Russia supplied energy, and was investment opportunity for hundreds of Eiropean and US compannies. Ukraine — always a wefare basketcase.
It is amazing that Europe chose to go along with crazy neocon Project Ukraine. But crossroads are coming. Supporting crazy leads to ruin.
Looks like Zelensky and his Azov people are out of control, in panic mode.
Aren’t the neo-Nazis still occupying a couple of towns south of Begorod? I think I saw a video of them. They did not seem like they were in “panic mode.”
As far as what’s happening elsewhere, the latest updates have the Ukrainians making advances toward Donetsk city. (That’s the capital of that region – in case you weren’t paying attention.)
Apparently, no Ukrainian panic mode there.
Looks like the Biden people are looking for an off-ramp in Ukraine and are setting Zelensky up to take the blame for the gigantic failure and they walk away from the Ukraine catastrophe. It is all the military failure of the Ukrainians, they got all the money and weapons they asked for from Biden, it is not Biden/Nuland neocons fault. They did all they could for Ukraine.
Sure. That’s the reality of it all.
Small “Nazi militia groups” have begun crossing the Russian border to conduct attacks across Belgorod region and they are using equipment that has been provided by the US/NATO alliance.
Shelling civilian targets in Belgorod Russian Federation territory will do nothing to help the Ukrainians regain lost territory. Apart from being an egregious war crime it will allow Russian leaders to demand that Kharkiv Oblast be included in the Russian Federation in any final peace agreement.
Under international law, providing weapons makes you responsible for their use. Providing weapons to Nazi mercenaries to murder civilians is state sponsored terrorism.
But they’re still there. So, at best, the Russians don’t give a damn about Nazis in their country or who they kill. At worst, they are so depleted that they CANNOT do anything about it.
To your point about “providing weapons”: how many civilians around the world have been killed by AK-47s over the decades?
These imbeciles always telegraph what they are going to do ahead of time, like Biden with Nordstream.
The Ukraine had already weakened the dam’s floodgates with three HIMARS strikes to test the feasibility of breaking the dam. This was done LAST YEAR during the Ukraine’s ‘offensive’ in Kherson. In October of 2022, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN sent a letter to the UN Sec Gen about Kiev’s plans to destroy the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric plant at the Nova Kakhovka Dam. In the weeks leading up to the dam’s failure, the Ukraine had been releasing water into the reservoirs in order to maximize flooding damage should the dam break. And now, mysteriously, within a day of the Ukrainian ‘counteroffensive’ getting underway, the Kakhovka dam breaks doing more practical damage to Russian positions than Ukrainian? And yet, with eyes on the dam- from both sides, to verify if either one blew it up- there’s absolutely no footage of an explosion of any kind?
What we have here, as I see it, is the dam failing as a result of the combination of physical damage from prior HIMARS strikes and the deliberate raising of the water level by the Ukraine for just this purpose. Yet we are supposed to believe that Putin just decided to do this, knowing it would negatively affect his field positions? And within a half-hour of the event, Russia was already being accused of ‘ecocide’ and Putin branded an ‘ecoterrorist’? And Kiev is floating the idea of the water damage being on par with that of a ‘weapon of mass destruction’- a ploy so transparently obvious to try and bring NATO into the Ukraine fight.
Chalk this up to the Nord Stream 2 false flag playbook.
“The Ukraine had already weakened the dam’s floodgates with three HIMARS strikes to test the feasibility of breaking the dam. This was done LAST YEAR during the Ukraine’s ‘offensive’ in Kherson”
Ukraine partially destroyed the small access to the dam on the Russian side. Russia completely destroyed the access on the Ukraine side last year. Ukraine could not go to the dam but the Russians could as they kept control of the Dam.
Plus, why would Ukraine create a natural disaster which would take away resources from their planned counteroffensive, destroy the houses of the very people they are protecting, and eliminate one of their key attack approaches?
‘What we have here, as I see it, is the dam failing as a result of the combination of physical damage from prior HIMARS strikes and the deliberate raising of the water level by the Ukraine for just this purpose.”
What HIMARS? the Dam was blown out. Did you not see the explosion?
“Plus, why would Ukraine create a natural disaster which would take away resources from their planned counteroffensive, destroy the houses of the very people they are protecting, and eliminate one of their key attack approaches?”
Answer: Because Ukraine’s counteroffensive is a mirage, and destroying the dam takes the news media away from the dismal failure of said counteroffensive. Plus, flooding did way more damage to the Russian side and Crimea than it did to the western side. Ukraine government is not protecting their own people in the region. Ukraine is reduced to terrorist acts, now, since the Ukrainians cannot win on the battlefield. But they hope to keep the money flow coming from the Collective West.
Ukraine blew up the dam to “shape the battle field” by taking the Kherson Front out of the battle. This allows NATO to transfer forces from Kherson to the Zaporizhia Front.
Its fascist of course to blame the victims for the egregious crimes committed against them. Which of course is the MO of NATO.
Wow, you don’t have friends do you?
I’m sure you don’t.
Insane!!!!
i like her
Ukraine blew up the dam to “shape the battle field” by taking the Kherson Front out of the battle. This allows NATO to transfer forces from Kherson to the Zaporizhia Front.
Its fascist of course to blame the victims for the egregious crimes committed against them. Which of course is the MO of NATO.
Julio doesn’t understand that his boy Zelensky doesn’t give a damn about Ukrainians, they’re just cannon fodder for the piano player.
That piano player turned out to be a great leader helping his nation fight off the 2nd strongest force in Ukraine. Cannon fodders are the Russian soldiers fighting for Putin’s BS war.
He is doing such a great job expending their NATO aid weapons fix so NATO sends more… Genius…!!!! ….NOT…
Turning Ukraine into a dying wasteland must be in everyones interests. GOOD JOB. Keep at it.!!!
He turned into a spineless fool who agreed to allow Ukraine to be used by the west. Ukraine could damn near be whole today if he didn’t cave to the west in late March of ’22. And sadly, that deal will look good when it is all said and done. A great leader my ass.
You mean Great Grifter, like the Biden crime family here in the U.S? It does seem that the Zombie President Biden does have a special place in his heart for Zelensky as they both seem to be champions at grifting. Oh, and by the way Julio, it’s Russia that gas station over there according to Obama that seems to be fighting off the combined forces of Ukraine, the U.S. the E.U. Even with all the weapons that have been dispatched to Ukraine, they still are losing ground and lives.
Just one little correction to you and whoever wrote this story. It’s Novaya Kakhovka dam/HEPP. Everything else is right on target. The Pentagon regime in Ukraine plan to blow up more dams on the Dnepr river all the way up to Kiev. Mostly for terrorist goals and hysterical propaganda since Pentagon can’t put their flagged grunts into Ukraine. It will be suicide for the Anglo-American empire.
The Russians did it, the usual.
The Russians shelled the NPP, and the IAEA when inspecting the plant could not tell where the shells came from?
The Russians blew up the Russian/German pipeline?
Now they destroyed the dam which is causing more damage to Russians? Who would think the Russians could be so stupid?
Sounds like panic actions on the Ukrainian side.
Whoever did this, be it Russia or Ukraine, is a pure maniac and deserved to be condemned.
The madhouse stands in Washington, it is full with maniacs of both gender.
I know, there’s a video of Nuland, Blinken, Sullivan, and Biden placing explosive charges last year on that Dam.
The Ukrainians know very well who is in charge and the need of deniability in Washington.
Ukrainians know very well the Russians placed explosives in that Dam last fall but they couldn’t risk going in to remove them for fear of losing their EOD personnel as the Dam was under Russian control even after they left Kherson city. Zelensky even reported the explosive rigged Dam to the U.N.
Zelensky, the clown, did he just report a claim or did he have prove? A Ukrainian general reported the testing Ukrainians did about a year ago. There were no reports in MSM. Can you provide a link?
DRINK!
One maniac invaded the other country and has been attacking it non stop since to include few other Dams and other civilian infrastructure. There, You have a start on your forensic.
last year, Ukrainian Maj. Gen. Andriy Kovalchuk told the Washington Post he considered attacking the dam
“we will put an end to the nord-stream pipeline”
…… POTUS Biden
The Brits are very supportive and have experience going back to WWII
The Möhne and Edersee dams were breached, causing catastrophic flooding of the Ruhr valley and of villages in the Eder valley; the Sorpe Dam sustained only minor damage. Two hydroelectric power stations were destroyed and several more damaged. Factories and mines were also damaged and destroyed. An estimated 1,600 civilians – about 600 Germans and 1,000 enslaved labourers, mainly Soviet – were killed by the flooding. Despite rapid repairs by the Germans, production did not return to normal until September. The RAF lost 53 aircrew killed and 3 captured, with 8 aircraft destroyed.
“We will put an end to the Nord Stream pipeline” said Biden and “we will blame Russians” thought Biden.
The bridge that collapsed in India yesterday was also done by the Sullivan, Blinken, Biden, Nuland team.
Why, did they say they would put “an end” to that bridge too? Otherwise, no. See the difference?
Of course they said that. Just like they (the Nuland team) said they will put an end to the Dam and the Nuclear plant. They always do.
Folks here are using the ‘we will put an end to the Nord Stream pipeline” to justified Ukraine has or will destroy any sensitive site like they are claiming right now. If the Russians destroy the nuclear plant on their way out, the same folks will cite the same line and you will be all over that as well.
I guess that should be the new ‘go to’ when you want to commit a crime and get away with it. Just say it out loud before it happens, and everyone will immediately think it wasn’t you. Brilliant!
Ukraine has been building up forces in the delta area between Kherson and the areas held by Russia on the east/south side of the Dnipro. Those forces will have to be evacuated immediately, assuming that is possible. Any heavy vehicles they might have had are probably now underwater. If an offensive was planned there, it has been fundamentally compromised.
The canal that supplies most of Crimea’s water is fed by the reservoir that was behind the dam. The nuclear power plant is also cooled by the reservoir. Both are in jeopardy if the water levels in the reservoir drop too low. But it is too soon to know if the reservoir will empty entirely. If the south side of the Dnipro in that area is lower than the north side, there is a chance that both the nuclear plant and the canal will be unharmed.
Small “Nazi militia groups” have begun crossing the Russian border to conduct attacks across Belgorod region and they are using equipment that has been provided by the US/NATO alliance.
Under international law, providing weapons makes you responsible for their use. Due to these weapons supplies the US/NATO alliance is now at war with the Russian Federation as they have provided weapons to proxies who are fighting illegal aggressive war (supreme international crime). Russia under international law has the right to take all necessary action to protect its civilians from this US/NATO illegal war of aggression (supreme international crime).
Shelling civilian targets in Belgorod Russian Federation territory is going to do nothing to help the Ukrainians regain lost territory. Apart from being a war crime it is putting enormous pressure on Russian Federation leaders.
The Russian Leaders aren’t stupid. They know that foreign fighters now make up a very significant percentage of the forces that they are facing in Belgorod and in Ukraine generally.
This is why China released Covid as a counter-offensive to the Hong-Kong protests/uprising. They started to notice foreign protestors(militias) and this was obvious that the protest would soon be a revolution like many others. Covid was released borders shut, Hong Kong protests ended overnight. Same Nazi far-right fighters
https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmjjey/what-the-hell-are-ukrainian-fascists-doing-in-the-hong-kong-protests
You have absolutely zero idea about Covid19, The US was purchasing bat virus material from Wuhan lab. There was a leak in Fort Detrick USA which is more likely to be the source of the leak.
At least we all now agree it was created in a lab?
The Kremlin has lost all credibility with me. They just lie to everyone’s faces. The destruction of the Dam was just their last ditch to stop one of Ukraine’s attack vectors and now they are making numbers up to please their emperor.
https://us.yahoo.com/news/russias-shoigu-ukraines-counter-offensive-155226283.html
Russia’s Shoigu: Ukraine’s counter-offensive has been thwarted.
Russia’s defence minister said on Tuesday his forces had thwarted the first three days of a Ukrainian counter-offensive, alleging that they had killed or wounded more than 3,700 Ukrainian soldiers.
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“Ukraine has maintained deliberate ambiguity about whether its long-expected counter-offensive is under way, and Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield claims.”
“In the past three days, the Ukrainian regime launched a long-promised offensive in different sectors of the front,” Shoigu said.
“The attempts at an offensive were thwarted, the enemy was stopped,” he added. “The enemy did not achieve its goals but suffered significant and incomparable losses.”
“He said Ukraine had suffered 3,715 casualties over three days, as well as losing 52 tanks and 207 armored vehicles.”
Wow but then enter Prigozhin:
Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Russian Wagner militia fighting in Ukraine and often at odds with Moscow, dismissed the ministry’s claims of heavy Ukrainian losses as “wild and absurd science fiction”.
“Ukrainian Maj. Gen. Andriy Kovalchuk told the
he considered attacking the dam during Ukraine’s counteroffensive”
Joey Biden and his clowns are insane!
The one that’s quick to lay the blame is the one who is to blame.
https://youtu.be/BkQCoXiOMHQ
And you better hope we don’t get another video of Prigozhin talking about this Dam. He may or may not side with the Kremlin on this one.
Where is Prigozhin? I don’t see Prigozhin here.
You don’t see him until you do.
There is Zhuravlev speaking, not Prigozhin.
Not sure what part of my post had Prigozhin taking part in the video.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksands Kubrakov reports that floating mines have been observed in the Dnepr river, presumably downstream from the dam. He averred that this was proof that the Russians were responsible for the damage to the dam, either by accident or by deliberate act. What he does not seem to realize is that the Ukrainian defense of “we did not have the means to do this” now goes down the drain, because you can bet that the Ukrainians have mines that can float too.
The NATO summit in Vilnius will be very interesting. If the Ukrainian people want their sovereignty back then they need to remove NATO who has illegally occupied Ukraine since the coup in 2014.
NATO overall has accumulated the following equipment losses;
438 Aircraft, 238 helicopters, 4527 UAV’s, 424 Anti Aircraft systems, 9634 tanks inc. APC’s, 1119 multiple rocket launchers, 5034 rocket launchers and 10771 military automotive equipment.
The Russian MOD is fighting a very successful war of attrition disarming NATO (Ukraine was disarmed in March 2022), tank by tank, artillery by artillery, air defense by air defense. Russia now will fight NATO to the last European.
What the empire looses in the Ukraine, they loose for the final Russian attack on NATO. Russia has shown they will pre-emptively attack to defend the Motherland when the time is dictated by events on the ground.
At the May 9th Victory Day Parade Vladimir Putin has included the De-occupation of Ukraine as an objective of the SMO. The SMO now will achieve De-Nazification, Demilitarisation and De-Occupation of Ukraine.
The NATO summit in Vilnius will be very interesting.
Outstanding post, even I get the military points.
Vilnius will be very interesting, can’t wait. NATO can’t hide the cracks any longer I think.
That’s a lot of destroyed NATO equipment! Uh, then what equipment is being used by the Ukrainians to make the advances they made today?
You of course would need to provide evidence of advances. After 3 days the US/NATO losses are 3,715 troops, 52 battle tanks, 207 armoured fighting vehicles, 134 motor vehicles, 5 aircraft, 2 helicopters, 48 pieces of field artillery and 53 unmanned aerial vehicles.
And, of course, you’ll provide sources for your NATO losses besides Russian MOD?
You mean provide evidence apart from the evidence i provided? By all means disagree with my evidence and table your own evidence.
I missed your “evidence”. Why don’t you try it again?
The UKRAINIANS would be happy to provide facts and figures of the Ukrainian military success.