Flooding in the Kherson region of Ukraine after the breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP
Posted on 06/06/2023 8:54:33 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Flooding in the Kherson region of Ukraine after the breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP
The Russians say the Ukrainians blew up the dam. The Ukrainians say the Russians did it.
Both have benefits from the event and both have incurred harm from the event.
I’ll posit another possible cause for the dam failure and that’s a lack of maintenance over the past decade of war. It may have simply failed.
Sergei Surovikin, the commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, alleged on Tuesday he had information that Ukrainian forces were preparing a massive strike on the dam.
Around 80 settlements were in danger of flooding, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, ordering a mass evacuation from risk areas.
Ukrainian officials said the allegation was a sign that Moscow planned to attack the dam and blame Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Russia had mined the dam and was preparing to blow it, a step compared to the use of weapons of mass destruction.
“I informed the Europeans today, during the meeting of the European Council, about the next terrorist attack, which Russia is preparing for at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant” he said. “Destroying the dam would mean a large-scale disaster.” “Russia has detonated a bomb of mass environmental destruction calling it “the largest man-made environmental disaster in Europe in decades.”
Zelenskyy called the Kremlin “the most dangerous terrorist in the world that needed to face “strict accountability.”
“It is physically impossible to blow it up somehow from the outside, by shelling,” Zelenskyy responded to Russian claims that Ukraine had done so. “It was mined by the Russian occupiers. And they blew it up.”
Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said the destruction of the dam was a “carefully planned act of terrorism” and a “global ecological disaster.”
Podolyak said “The terrorists’ goal is obvious — to create obstacles for the offensive actions of the armed forces.”
NUCLEAR PLANT RISKS
Destruction of the dam, which holds water equal to the Great Salt Lake in the United States, could have a catastrophic impact on local communities and the environment.
Built in 1956, the Soviet-era dam is 30 yards tall and 2 miles long built on the river as part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. Water from the reservoir helps cool the nearby Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant as well as supplies drinking water to Russian-occupied Crimea.
Ukraine’s state energy company, Energoatom, said that the dam breach could have “negative consequences” for the nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, but that the situation was still under control.
Kakhovka Dam (Digital art by © Neivanmade)
Look for the same tactics to be used on Americans by our own government.
The preponderance of evidence so far leans towards Russia blowing the dam.
1. People nearby the dam do not report hearing artillery.
2. No one heard or saw Ukrainian jets.
3. The Russians had exclusive control of the facility and had the access to place demolition charges inside the dam.
It’s too soon to say ‘Russia did it’ but at this point that’s what would appear to be the logical assessment.
Looking at photos and video, it certainly doesn’t look like an accident.
The hydro power plant diversion channel (where water passes through the turbines) was also destroyed, and there is water rushing through that too.
This demolition was thorough and deliberate.
“Look for the same tactics to be used on Americans by our own government.”
Already been done.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/us/03levee.html
There’s footage on Telegram of Russian soldiers boasting that they’d been mining the dam.
There’s also footage on Telegram of Russian commentators announcing that the explosions were as a result of Russian activity.
Separately there’s chatter to the effect of, Ukraine was going to “attack the dam” so the Russians blew up the road.
It’s all a bit confusing but Russian narratives flipped after an hour or two.
Suddenly, they stopped saying THEY did it and started blaming Ukraine.
My guess is, Russia thought Ukraine was going to take the dam, set off some explosives to block the road, and inadvertently set off enough explosives beneath the surface to crack the dam.
Seismographs in Eastern Europe picked up a massive tremor early this morning. A surface detonation can’t explain that. That dam didn’t just break up from the road down.
To bust a dam open like that, the explosion needed to be below surface.
The only think they left out was to have drones drop grenades and snippers waiting to ambush evacuees.
“Maybe it was these guys?”
Nah, doesn’t even look Ruzzian 🤣
“There’s footage on Telegram of Russian soldiers boasting that they’d been mining the dam.
There’s also footage on Telegram of Russian commentators announcing that the explosions were as a result of Russian activity.”
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Like the gas pipeline ....
follow the $$ who benefits?
Why doesn’t the MSM focus on the environmentalists in the story? The environmentalists must be happy. It has to help some frog, fish or worm.
Who controls the land around the dam?
If it is Russia, then there’s’ no way the UA can sneak sappers in to lay charges on the dam without the Russians knowing, or, as a minimum, removing them.
Thanks UMCRevMom@aol.com.
Great movie. Used to live down the road from where they trained.
you trolls post nothing but propaganda ..
Go get a life!
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today’s update from mil summary
ukes lost 16 tanks on the first day and have been pushed back from the villages they originally captuerd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp1I55f-iHk
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i dunno who blew it but ask who benefits??
here’s a video of water rushing thru since u forgot to include one
https://rumble.com/v2scs8m-video-purportedly-shows-breach-of-dam-at-ukraines-kakhovka-hydroelectric-po.html
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