Max Kennerly
16 months into their needless and failed invasion of Ukraine, Russia just blew up a dam to cover part of their retreat from the Kherson region, which they initially took then failed to hold, because nobody wants them there and their military is trash.
https://www.ft.com/content/10ba2659-3204-4fde-b407-6904a408c931
Floods hit Ukraine after Kakhovka dam breached

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Jun 6, 2023 at 10:18amWeb
Show threadcolin_brosseauJun 6, 2023

@maxkennerly

Paywalled

Show threadNina🐀🌻WTAF America?Jun 6, 2023
@colin_brosseau
This link may work:
https://archive.is/20230606122231/https://www.ft.com/content/10ba2659-3204-4fde-b407-6904a408c931
Show threadcolin_brosseauJun 6, 2023

@ratgrrl

Interesting. I didn't know that we could use that site to bypass paywall.

I'll keep that under the elbow. :)

Show threadNina🐀🌻WTAF America?Jun 6, 2023
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Show threadsxpertJun 6, 2023
@maxkennerly
that's nice NATO propaganda you've got there...
smells of the same 🐂 💩 as the blowing up of the NordStream pipelines
Show threadCarnildoJun 6, 2023
@maxkennerly I'm not convinced the Russians blew it up. The early pictures are consistent with simple mismanagement (or deliberate sabotage), leaving the spillway gates closed while the water level rose. If it was a deliberate explosion, I'd expect the entire spillway to have been demolished at once, rather than starting with two small breaches.