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re: Major Dam Just Blown Up In Ukraine
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:22 am to SlimTigerSlap
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:22 am to SlimTigerSlap
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The ignorance is astounding.
Uh oh... someone left the door open in the retarded Ukraine thread on the OT
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Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:24 am to Catchfalaya
Political ads are becoming more expensive, and an election is coming soon.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:30 am to GumboPot
quote:The Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant is under Russian control, but it was badly damaged in the fighting, and has basically been offline for a year.
Besides downstream flooding, what are the other implications?
Last November there was a similar, but unsuccessful, attempt to destroy the dam. An explosion badly damaged it, and made flow regulation difficult. Both sides blamed the other.
In answer to the question, blowing the dam will drain the Dnipro Reservoir. The Dnipro Reservoir provides water to Crimea and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Both are under Russian control.
This post was edited on 6/6/23 at 6:33 am
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:32 am to Gifman
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Uh oh... someone left the door open in the retarded Ukraine thread on the OT
Put aside all your retarded assumptions. Do you really think one poor country, i.e. Russia, can bleed America and its Nato partners dry?
Our lives are so unaffected by this that we spend our days talking about shitty beer.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:34 am to Catchfalaya
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:36 am to SlimTigerSlap
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Russians are bleeding America dry…
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The ignorance is astounding.
Acknowledging that you have an issue is the first step. Good for you!
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:37 am to SlimTigerSlap
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Our lives are so unaffected by this that we spend our days talking about shitty beer.
The calm before the slaughter…
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:40 am to parrothead
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Blowing up the Kakhovka Dam is an ecological and economic catastrophe as it not only floods towns and cities south of the dam, including Kherson, but threatens the drinking water for hundreds of thousands, agricultural production, and the safety of Europe's largest nuclear plant.
So a first rate distraction.
This truly sucks for the Ukrainian people.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:40 am to Catchfalaya
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along with hundreds of thousands potential civilian deaths
No. Already stated as no threat to civilians by Ukrainian government official in a statement. Plenty of time to move anyone in danger as they monitor rises in water levels.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:42 am to trinidadtiger
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Whats next, cut off some appendages and throw them at the Russians.
It’s June.
Don’t give them any ideas.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:44 am to GumboPot
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Besides downstream flooding, what are the other implications?
A couple of major cities are downstream, as is a large nuclear power station and lots of farmland. It’s also draining a reservoir that supplies drinking water for a big area.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:46 am to Catchfalaya
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Major escalation in the war.
Why would this be considered a "major escalation"? Considering entire cities has been leveled, rail road tracks, highways, and at one point they were bombing close to a nuclear plant. Seems par for the course during war.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:46 am to NC_Tigah
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In answer to the question, blowing the dam will drain the Dnipro Reservoir. The Dnipro Reservoir provides water to Crimea and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Both are under Russian control
Russia blowing this dam makes as much sense as them blowing up Nord Stream.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:46 am to Catchfalaya
And I still hope Putin wins so he can rebuild the craphole...
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:48 am to Catchfalaya
The U.S. will rebuild it.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:48 am to jatilen
quote:Just weeks before the HIMARS attacks, Ukraine leaked a story to the Western press that Russia planned to blow the dam. Afterwards they and much of western media blamed Russia for attempting to blow the dam. Then as the damage altered ability to control water levels, they blamed Russia for trying to drown Ukrainians. The western press parroted the story.
Russia had to arm and feed its forces via three crossings: the Antonovsky Bridge, the Antonovsky railway bridge and the Nova Kakhovka dam, part of a hydroelectric facility with a road running on top of it.
The two bridges were targeted with U.S.-supplied M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems — or HIMARS launchers, which have a range of 50 miles — and were quickly rendered impassable.
“There were moments when we turned off their supply lines completely, and they still managed to build crossings,” Kovalchuk said. “They managed to replenish ammunition. … It was very difficult.”
Kovalchuk considered flooding the river. The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages.
The test was a success, Kovalchuk said, but the step remained a last resort. He held off.
Seems this is more of the same.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:50 am to lake chuck fan
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Why would this be considered a "major escalation"?
Blowing up a dam is considered a direct attack on the civilian population.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:51 am to Indefatigable
quote:The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is upstream and under Russian control. It is dependent on the dam and reservoir for its water supply ... as is Crimea.
as is a large nuclear power station
This post was edited on 6/6/23 at 6:57 am
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:59 am to NC_Tigah
Russia blow this up just like they blew up their pipeline?
Posted on 6/6/23 at 8:19 am to ruffleforeskin
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It's also a breach of Geneva Convention, but the west won't give a shite and will blame it on Russia.
The British blew up dams in Germany in WWII.
I guess that was different.... lolzzz
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