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Russians Blow Up Nova Kakhovka Dam
in Kherson oblast
This is likely to have caused a tsunami type flood potentially killing thousands
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This is likely to have caused a tsunami type flood potentially killing thousands
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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.
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.
'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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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.'
(i) Telegraph (i)
> 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 ...
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A bit odd, as you'd think allies would just believe what they say to each other ...
To be fair (or more unfair), Rishi Sunak and "intelligence agencies" is also not saying who bombed the dam ...
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A bit odd, as you'd think allies would just believe what they say to each other ...
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.
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 ?
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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
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. :-(
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:"
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:"
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