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An act of Insanity as Zelenskyy orders the destruction of the Kakhovskaya Hydroelectric Dam
Scottland Today ^ | 6 June 2023 | Iain Muir

Posted on 06/05/2023 11:09:53 PM PDT by Kazan

The breach could result in devastating flooding, potentially killing thousands of civilians as well as disrupting the cooling systems for the nearby Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

The Kakhovskaya hydroelectric dam in Russia’s Kherson Region, located on the Dnepr River upstream from the city of Kherson, suffered significant damage on Tuesday morning, according to a local official and several videos shared on social media.

The upper part of the key infrastructure was “destroyed as a result of a strike,” the mayor of Novaya Kakhovka, Vladimir Leontyev, confirmed to RIA Novosti. While several of the dam’s floodgates were damaged and unleashed an uncontrolled stream of water, the underwater structure itself withstood the attack, the official claimed.

As a result of what Leontyev described as a major “terrorist act,” the water level downstream has risen by up to 2.5 meters, according to Leontyev, who added there was no need for evacuations thus far. He noted that the area has seen higher water levels during previous floods caused by heavy rainfall, but emphasized that local officials were focused on helping citizens as they prepare for a worst-case scenario.

“All services work in the city, all administration employees are in place. Electricity, gas, internet, and communications are available,” the mayor continued.

The dam was reportedly struck around 2am local time. A video captured from a drone has circulated on Telegram, purporting to show the aftermath of the attack, with streams of water seen flowing through the breach.

Moscow has repeatedly blamed Kiev for numerous attacks on the Kakhovskaya dam, warning that a breach could cause a disaster and result in the deaths of thousands of civilians. In turn, Ukraine claimed that Russia had been planning to blow up the dam itself in a false-flag operation aimed at framing Kiev for the flooding.

The persistent threat was cited as one of the main reasons for evacuating civilians from certain communities in the area, and an eventual pullout of Russian forces from the city of Kherson to the left bank of the Dnepr River.

Russian military and civilian officials, including acting Kherson Governor Vladimir Saldo, warned at the time that many areas in the region, including in Kherson city, could be flooded if the Kakhovskaya dam is destroyed.

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Kiev indeed considered blowing up the dam to paralyze Moscow’s forces who were defending the city of Kherson – and even “conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates” – a former head of Ukraine’s Operational Command South, Major General Andrey Kovalchuk, admitted in an interview with the Washington Post in December.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine; War
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To: House Atreides

>> The Ukrainians hold the right bank (that’s the bank to the west of the river for you riparian challenged) and the Russians hold the left bank. The right bank in Kherson (held by the Ukrainians) is ALL HIGH GROUND and NOT SUBJECT TO FLOODING. The left bank of the river there is all HELD BY THE RUSSIANS and is ALL LOW GROUND and is BEING FLOODED. The Russians would not do this to themselves. Only the STUPID and GULLIBLE would believe otherwise…which are you? <<

Oleshky, Hola Pryshtan, Khokany and Khardashynka, the Russian-occupied towns downstream of the dam, are all set back miles from the main flow of the river making them safer from flooding than Kherson. Kherson is directly on the banks, with dense housing right to the shore. There is actually some housing on the Left Bank, but this also is under Ukrainian control. The only settlement on the Left-Bank shoreline that is under Russian control is Nova Khakova.


41 posted on 06/06/2023 3:13:24 AM PDT by dangus ( )
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To: Kazan

“Scottland Today” just screams authenticity!


42 posted on 06/06/2023 3:14:54 AM PDT by dangus ( )
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To: Kazan

Your usual nonsense.


43 posted on 06/06/2023 3:16:17 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: dangus
The flooding hits Kherson, which is safely in Ukraine’s hands.

Russia occupies 75 percent of Kherson province, everything east of the Dnieper River.

44 posted on 06/06/2023 4:13:54 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: McGruff

““Except the Russians did it.” - That statement makes about as much sense as the Russians blowing up their own pipeline. The dam also supplies water to Crimea.

AGREE - But the thing is, THEY know it was the Neocons, possibly with some Ukrainian help, particularly after what the Neocons did to the pipeline. Obviously, with much of of the former Ukraine now being returned to Russia, they want to make it as costly as possible for Russia.


45 posted on 06/06/2023 4:40:01 AM PDT by BobL
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To: roving
Russia has a history of mass murdering their own people

Paging Dr. Mengele...
Paging Dr. Fauxi...
Paging Dr. Walensky...

46 posted on 06/06/2023 5:19:05 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Kazan

One minute the Scotland Today article cites tweets that say Ukraine was shelling the dam, the next it says it was a drone.

The article also says Zaporozhzhia Region “overwhelmingly supported” annexation despite the number of Oblast residents not voting at all VASTLY outnumbering the ones who did vote.

The title of the article suggests Zelenskyy ordered the attack but doesn’t provide even an allegation to that effect, let alone a sourced quote.

A test strike six months ago, which was intended to impair the use of the bridge not to blow the dam up, proves nothing.

Russia has spent the last few weeks evacuating people out of dozens of settlements south of the river, and moving them to the coast.

Russia is currently shelling Kherson while thousands of people are trying to get out of the way of the coming flood. Quite a stroke of luck, that they were so quick to retarget and so quick to know where to hit.

Russia is also saying, Crimea’s only going to be temporarily affected by the flood because they’d planned ahead.

Russian Telegram channels can’t make their mind up. Some are delighted that this breach will wash away Ukrainian forces downriver and are cheering the dam collapse - they’re only too happy to claim the credit.

Others are blaming Ukraine but are cheering the smarts of Russia moving its people out of the path of the flood, and could care less about those who haven’t gotten out of the way.

Who was in control of the dam? I thought it was Russia. A bloody drone didn’t do THAT much damage. Heck, even a targeted missile would only have done it if there’d beem a heck of a fluke.

Russia had more to gain and less to lose; it had more rational motives; it had better means and opportunity; it got the excuses out early; it got its people out of the way first.

All VERY convenient for Russia.


47 posted on 06/06/2023 5:23:55 AM PDT by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe". https://www.thefabulous.co/s/2uHEJdj)
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To: cba123
Ukraine has the entire US propaganda apparatus fighting for them.

I am not sure which side to believe.

I look to see who is pushing an agenda. In this case:

Biden, all the Dems & RINOs, Hollywood, MSM, Romney, Graham, Cheney, Schwab, Trudeau, Kissinger, the Vindmans, Boris Johnson and Hillary.

48 posted on 06/06/2023 5:25:48 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Jubal Harshaw
In 1941, as Nazi German troops swept through Soviet-era Ukraine, Josef Stalin's secret police blew up a hydroelectric dam in the southern city of Zaporizhzhya to slow the Nazi advance.

The explosion flooded villages along the banks of the Dnieper River, killing thousands of civilians.


Not even the first time this dam has been destroyed by Russia in order to protect its retreat. The last time, Soviets took out over 20,000 of its own people and troops.

Article with archive footage
49 posted on 06/06/2023 5:36:45 AM PDT by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe". https://www.thefabulous.co/s/2uHEJdj)
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To: rfp1234

The damage to the dam is extensive and internal, and extends to the entire length of the turbine halls, and clearly the result of demolition charges, not artillery shelling. 155mm artillery will not take out a massive reinforced concrete structure in its entirety, and will certainly leave entire sections with evidence of damage, which we do not see.


50 posted on 06/06/2023 6:09:30 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Jubal Harshaw

Trotsky was Russian - unless you think that Jews who had lived in Russia for centuries were somehow not Russian.

Leonid Brezhnev wrote in his book Memories (1979), : “And so, according to nationality, I am Russian, I am a proletarian, a hereditary metallurgist.”

Khrushchev was bornin Kalinovka,a village in what is now Russia’s Kursk Oblast, near the present Ukrainian border.[4] His parents, Sergei Khrushchev and Kseniya Khrushcheva, were poor Russian peasants.


51 posted on 06/06/2023 6:15:30 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Kazan

The idiot Ukes did it. The Russian side of the river is the low ground and it cut off the north Crimean canal water supply again. It also endangers the nuclear plant cooling. Russia had zero advantage from this. It was the idiot Ukes… likely advised by Brits.


52 posted on 06/06/2023 6:16:27 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Kazan

Yet another pile of made up s^^t!


53 posted on 06/06/2023 6:25:27 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: Williams; Kazan

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4158684/posts

Not sure WHO blew it up.


54 posted on 06/06/2023 6:51:58 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: Kazan
Major General Andrey Kovalchuk, former head of Ukraine’s Operational Command South....

Admitted in an interview with the Washington Post in December.Kiev indeed considered blowing up the dam to paralyze Moscow’s forces who were defending the city of Kherson – and even “conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates”


55 posted on 06/06/2023 6:52:24 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Kazan
The dam was reportedly struck around 2am local time. A video captured from a drone has circulated on Telegram, purporting to show the aftermath of the attack, with streams of water seen flowing through the breach.

Dams generally have real time video, if the area is controlled by Russia and the video is not released, we know who did it.

56 posted on 06/06/2023 6:53:52 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Keb

You can trust me. The Ukes did it and are blaming it on Russia.


57 posted on 06/06/2023 7:13:15 AM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: DesertRhino
Russia had zero advantage from this.

I disagree. The water flow will prevent effective river-crossing operations for probably a week or so. The small scale topography of the ground will change somewhat and the ground will be saturated for that period. It is one less sector to worry about while parrying a Ukrainian attack elsewhere.

58 posted on 06/06/2023 7:13:31 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

>> Russia occupies 75 percent of Kherson province, everything east of the Dnieper River. <<

Kherson is also the major city downriver of the dam. Ukraine controls both banks near Kherson.


59 posted on 06/06/2023 7:33:55 AM PDT by dangus ( )
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To: DesertRhino

Also: The Russians love destroying infrastructure. It’s strong evidence they don’t really think of the land they’re occupying is theirs. (Crimea is.)


60 posted on 06/06/2023 7:36:01 AM PDT by dangus ( )
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