Quote (ownyaah @ 6 Jun 2023 07:48)
Personally, dont think it is that big of a deal:
1. Crimea survived without water for almost 10 years
2. Ecological and environmental damage is something neither ukranians, russians nor nato cares about
3. It destroys a lot of russian positions but makes crossing harder
4. NPP will be turned off, worst case scenario
Some are talking about retaliation, but I don´t really see why?
Furthermore this is like the 10th dam that has been destroyed in this war so far, people have short memory. Either way, this scenario was also the reason why russians pulled out of kherson, surovikin made the right choice.
So you put all the dams in the same bag ? Not very serious... This dam is very significant
* The dam, 30 metres (98 feet) tall and 3.2 km (2 miles) long, was built in 1956 on the Dnipro river as part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant.
* The reservoir also supplies water to the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014, and to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which is also under Russian control.
* The volume of water in the reservoir is about equal to the Great Salt Lake in the U.S. state of Utah.
* Blowing the Soviet-era dam, which is controlled by Russia, would unleash a wall of floodwater across much of the Kherson region.
tss