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By attacking the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, Kyiv is trying to solve a set of issues
2023-06-08
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets

Why did Zelensky's stake go to undermine the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station?

There are several reasons and they can be described briefly and thesis:

1) Ukraine began to fall out of the world information field. And for the Kyiv regime, which holds on and receives help through noise and hype, this is like death.

2) They don't take them to NATO.

3) Artyomovsk has been lost by Kiev, it is necessary to interrupt the information agenda in the country.

4) American aid is ending and problems are predicted in the allocation of a new one to Kiev. In Congress about further trenches to Kyiv. The Senate is ready to provide Biden with additional funding for Ukraine. But Republicans in the House of Representatives want to block it.

5)Possibility to flood the Russian positions on the low left bank of the Dnieper, while the Ukrainian positions will suffer little, since they are on the opposite, upper bank. According to the calculations of the General Staff, the water should go away in 10-15 days, and then you need to immediately start the operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine until the enemy has time to create a new line of defense, which was washed away by water.

6) The opportunity to announce the factors that "influenced the counteroffensive" and, taking advantage of this, sit further without fulfilling the promise given to the West to start it in them Russia (in the "self-shelling" of the Russians themselves at the ZNPP, the cocainissimus, completely detached from reality, blamed it without hesitation before, and the West "hawal"

Well, one more factor, Ukrainian TG channels are already writing on this topic, namely, that Zelensky (obviously after taking another dose) wants to “demand” the West to give away frozen Russian assets to prevent an environmental disaster that occurred due to a dam break and flooding of the Kherson region. Ukraine was denied the provision of these assets. The drug fuhrer's office is looking for excuses.

Interestingly, (and Ukrainian TG channels also write about this) Kyiv has classified a video with the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, which shows the first minutes of a breakthrough of platinum. Bankova refused a UN request to provide visual control personnel.

Posted by:badanov

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Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751   2023-06-08 13:52  

#7  ^^ 617 Squadron with their Lancasters.

Operation 'Chastise'. Great story.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2023-06-08 11:58  

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Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-06-08 10:02  

#5  Yeah, but without the pipe pigs, Skid.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2023-06-08 09:54  

#4  Russians are shelling heavily during the evacuation of the civilian population.

Russian forces are shooting at Ukrainian rescuers trying to reach people trapped in the floods, Zelenskyy says
Posted by: Enver Slager8035   2023-06-08 09:35  

#3  Curious underwater infrastructure targeting, like the pipeline.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-06-08 09:08  

#2  Based on the CCTV footage I saw, it appears that the initial explosion seems integral to the structure.

The explosives, and a lot of them, had to have been placed down low and internally for that to happen. I don't believe any conventional field weaponry (including drones, MLRS and/or cruise missiles) that either Ukraine or Russia are using right now could pack enough punch to penetrate an earthen dam enough to cause this.

I do know that Ukraine damaged the roadway over a small sluice channel north of this new breach previously with a HIMARS, but this explosion is well beyond what those are capable of.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2023-06-08 07:51  

#1  Ukraine dam explosion is 'Europe's worst environmental disaster since Chernobyl': Tens of thousands flee amid warnings grain fields will become deserts - while those stranded SWIM between inundated homes
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-06-08 00:48  

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