Official Russia vs Ukraine War Thread

Another day another war crime. Taking out a dam will land someone in a war crimes tribunal. This is absolutely abominal.

msn.com

Citizens embark on chaotic scramble to escape floodwaters after Ukraine dam breach

KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — As shelling from Russia’s war on Ukraine echoed overhead, dozens of evacuees on an island in the Dnieper River scurried onto the tops of military trucks or into rafts to flee rising floodwaters caused...

Link:www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/citizens-...

Russia is losing they are whipped

Ukraine likely destroyed it.

retreating armies blow dams behind them, not advancing armies in the direction they are going.

With US approval only

Ukraine's stated objective is to liberate Crimea. Why would they want to destroy the water supply to a part of the country that they are fighting a war to liberate from Russia?

Ukraine is a Nazi state

I think it has something to do with Hunter Biden's laptop.

To get the Russians out...

While Ukraine is far more inclined to preserve their own infrastructure, if there were a clear and worthwhile battlefield advantage to be gained from destroying this or any other piece of infrastructure, Ukraine would do it. They blew up plenty of bridges in the early part of the war.

The evidence I've seen thus far makes it more likely than not that it was the Russians, but it's not clear at this point. What's a bit odd is that the immediate effect is more disruptive on the left bank (controlled by the Russians) than the right bank (controlled by Ukraine). Other than a generally causing chaos and trashing the country, there's not a clear advantage gained by the Russians.

In early February, RUSSIA started intentionally draining the dam reservoir.

The dam exploded from the inside out, multiple times. The dam has had no access for months. Russians planted a load of mines inside the dam. The initial break occurred days before on the RUSSIAN controlled SIDE. The water suddenly rose (gates controlled by Russia) to over 70 meters, after Russia closed off the outflows.

Russians blew it up in an attempt to STOP the Ukraine forces to cross the Dniper river and foil their plan to take Russian territory. Civilians were expendable. Poorly trained Russian soldiers were expendable -- Putin counts on people believing he wouldn't kill his own mobiks ... drowning them is easier than pushing them out of a build window.

Image:ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/3D...

npr.org

Russia is draining a massive Ukrainian reservoir, endangering a nuclear plant

Satellite data show water levels plummeting at the Kakhovka Reservoir. The reservoir supplies drinking water, irrigates vast tracts of farmland, and cools Europe's largest nuclear plant.

Link:www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1155761686/russ...

Russia controls the part of the dam were the first breach occurred. Since then, the mines they planted inside of it have been blowing up.

The New York Times' confirmed Ukraine Nazi state is still losing the war. Russia controls a large area of Ukraine.

So basically, Ukraine is a Nazi State, and “Russian Propaganda” was actually correct. When your proxy war has lost the NY Times...

NYT inventing new levels of cope: Nazi iconography has "meanings unique to Ukraine Nazi symbols" should be interpreted by how Ukrainians viewed them, not by how they had been used elsewhere.

uh huh.

Proud displays of Nazism are a “thorny issue” and a “historically complicated” cultural misunderstanding when the Nazis serve the interests of NATO

6 months later and this post (#10301) is just as dumb as it was when posted.

There is another dam upstream from the broken dam. The Dnipro HDD, under Ukrainian control. The wise thing would be to close its floodgates to reduce the water of the broken dam. So why did Ukraine open the floodgates wide and thus make the flood worse?

This claim is based on Russian disinformation being peddled by twitter accounts. They show a video from April with the flood gates open. This was necessary in April because of the spring rains and snowmelt and the Russians had the gates open at the Khakovka dam all spring to keep water levels as high as possible around Kherson to make river crossings as difficult as possible.

Losing the dam is a huge loss for Ukraine on many levels. Militarily, the Dnipro around Kherson is now impossible to cross using temporary pontoon bridges. The river is too wide. Just look at the satellite before and after photos. Ukraine is now completely cut off from being able to advance towards Crimea from Kherson. But Russian forces are still able to shell Kherson from the Russian held side of the Dnipro and are actually attacking civilian evacuation sites with artillery. And by far the biggest disadvantage for Ukraine is that the dam was also a bridge and the only bridge still standing on the southern front around Kherson. If Ukraine was able to capture the dam, they would have been able to move armored divisions across the Dnipro very quickly instead of risky and slow crossings across temporary pontoon bridges. With the dam blown, Ukraine has no ability to launch counteroffensives on its southern front at Kherson and will probably not be able to reach Crimea absent a catastrophic collapse of RU defenses.

Given how absolutely terribly the Ukrainian offensive is going to the north it's pretty silly to think it would have been any different in the south.

Love it...