Team Nordstream blows this Dam.
Then everyone who wants to widen this war argues for more weapons and $$$ for Ukraine.
Mission accomplished.
The same way they claimed that Russia blew it’s own pipeline? The way they blamed a Ukrainian missile into Poland on Russia? Even after Biden explained that the missile actually came from the Ukraine, Z kept telling anyone who would listen it was from Russia, Russia, Russia.
"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."
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Sounds like an attempt to get USA and/or NATO “boots on the ground.” I told the youngsters I work with I know a dozen ways from Sunday to evade conscription if the Democrats, globalists, and neocons try to make them fight in the Ukraine war. “Hell, no! We won’t go!”
The Russians blew it up a few hours ago.
Are Ukrainian General is even on record as publicly stating that the Ukrainians had considered taking this action before.
If Zelensky claims it, then it is most likely a LIE.
Neither side cares about the Ukrainian people....and neither does the US/NATO.
OMG.
Acts of sabotage.
In a war.
(gobsmacked)
/s
Is someone surprised that warfare endangers people? What did I miss?
Quoting the above Washington Post piece Andrew Korybko points to a possible motive for today's demolishing of the dam:
"[Kovalchuk's] remark about how “the step remained a last resort” is pertinent to recall at present considering that the first phase of Kiev’s NATO-backed counteroffensive completely failed on Monday according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. Just like Ukraine launched its proxy invasion of Russia in late May to distract from its loss in the Battle of Artyomovsk, so too might does it seem to have gone through with Kovalchuk’s planned war crime to distract from this most recent embarrassment as well."
The most recent embarrassment was the failure of yesterday's attack near Novodarovka and Levadnoye. As the Russian Ministry of Defense noted in a special statement:
"As a result of active and self-sacrificing actions of the Vostok Group of Forces, which displayed courage and heroism, the enemy has been stopped, and the set tasks haven’t been achieved. The AFU formations and military units suffered significant losses.
Total AFU losses in South Donetsk direction were over 1,500 Ukrainian servicemen, 28 tanks, including FRG-manufactured 8 Leopard tanks, three French-manufactured AMX-10 wheeled tanks, and 109 armoured fighting vehicles."