The Kakhovka hydroelectric dam in Russia’s occupied Kherson territory has been reportedly been destroyed, causing widespread flooding and drowning out nearby towns and homes. Ukraine blames Russia for this attack, but Russia blames Ukraine and claims they did this with the intent of cutting off water supplies to annexed Crimea.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and national security forces released a video that shows the water rushing out of the dam this morning.
Evacuations already currently underway, Ukrainian state media has reported.
Zelensky has already issued and conducted emergency meetings to discuss the disaster, immediately claiming that this was Russia’s fault. Zelensky has already contacted the UN Security Council and awaits a future meeting.
The disaster at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant caused by Russian terrorists will not stop Ukraine and Ukrainians. We will still liberate all our land. And each Russian act of terrorism increases only the amount of reparations that Russia will pay for its crimes, not the chances of the occupiers to stay on our land.
The whole world will know about this Russian war crime, the crime of ecocide. This deliberate destruction of the dam and other HPP facilities by the Russian occupiers is an environmental bomb of mass destruction. For the sake of their own security, the world should now show that Russia will not get away with such terror.
Zelensky said in a speech
In another speech Zelensky added, “The flood zone includes areas where more than a hundred thousand people lived before the war. Now, at least tens of thousands of people remain there.”
The Kakhovka reservoir provided drinking water to a huge part of Ukraine – cities and villages with hundreds of thousands of people. It also supplied water to farmers for agricultural production in the south and center of Ukraine. Moreover, the destruction of the dam and the reservoir is a man-made strike on the environment, after which nature will have to recover for decades.
Evacuation of people from the flooded area is ongoing – almost eighty settlements are under threat. An oil slick of at least 150 tons formed and was taken by the current to the Black Sea. We cannot yet predict how much of the chemicals, fertilizers and oil products stored in the flooded areas will end up in the rivers and sea.
Zelensky added
Russia has responded by saying this was a deliberate sabotage on their part.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a statement:
We are talking about a deliberate sabotage by the Ukrainian side. This sabotage could potentially lead to very serious consequences for several tens of thousands of inhabitants of the region, environmental consequences and consequences of a different nature, which have yet to be established.
This sabotage is also connected with the fact that, having launched large-scale offensive operations two days ago, the Ukrainian armed forces are not achieving their goals.
RT added: ‘While the flooding now makes it difficult for Ukrainian forces to cross the Dnieper and attack Russia’s defensive lines, the destruction of the dam also appears to aid a number of Ukraine’s key objectives. The flooding mostly threatens the eastern bank of the river, where Russian troops withdrew to last year amid concerns that the Ukrainian military would blow up the dam.’
‘With the dam destroyed, the level of the Dnieper has fallen further upstream, including at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. Ukrainian troops made several attempts to cross the river to recapture the plant from Russian forces last year, and lowering the water level would remove a major obstacle to future attempts. Additionally, the Soviet-era plant depends on water from the Dnieper to cool its reactors and its spent fuel rods,’ RT also reported.
However, there is evidence Ukraine that has already tested a strike with the HIMARS weapons system on the dam, and has even floated out the idea of sabotaging the dam as a tactic to stop the Russian advance.
Major General Andrey Kovalchuk of the Ukrainian forces admitted to this last November, reported by the Washington Post, calling the tactic a “last resort.”
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.
The Washington Post wrote
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We’ll probably never get the whole story; but at any rate, get ready you Western tax cattle because you are about ready to pay for more hefty weapons and funding packages for Ukraine, so all the scumbags at the top can make even more money.
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1 Timothy 6:9-10
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Russia will find out they were falsely accused of blasting a Ukrainian dam, and let’s just say there’ll be consequences for their slanderous accusation.
The wicked never get nor want peace. They want chaos, create and get chaos themselves.
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there are some out there that dont know if they should be ‘going back’ to israel. and from what i gather its very serious to the LORD to obey the scriptures and return in unbelief.
Jacob would i be right on the abraham syrian blood line? or could there be a european mix to it too while they were scattered over there.