Quote (Meanwhile @ Jun 6 2023 08:35am)

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tRYWbVD5AE

tss

Quote (DizzyBusiness @ Jun 6 2023 08:07am)

This all makes sense

But regarding #4, Is there not much extra risk to the NPP? I mean obviously it's not an ideal spot for a NPP but you dont think the dam being destroyed will have any serious affect on it?

I know nothing about how they work really

Quote (ownyaah @ Jun 6 2023 04:04am)

it is a large dam, but it doesn´t matter a lot in the grand scheme of things. It would´ve mattered far more if surovikin didn´t withdraw russian troops in kherson.



Loss of electricity short term, but they can just turn off NPP. As long as they do it in a timely manner it shouldn´t be dangerous.

This is for the most part a small to small-mid humanitarian crisis.

Quote (DizzyBusiness @ Jun 6 2023 09:17am)

That's good, I think I read it was already completely turned off awhile ago but not sure if that has changed.

Considering the damage to Ukraines energy infrastructure it would suck if there were serious damage to the NPP as well, it was providing a pretty huge chunk of the power in Ukraine if I recall correctly.

Quote (ownyaah @ Jun 6 2023 12:48am)

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.

Quote (Meanwhile @ Jun 6 2023 01:59am)

BTW 16,000 people are in the critical zone on the right bank of the Kherson region (dixit Ukraine, but even 8000 is too much) also explosion at 2:50AM
https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-06-06-23/index.html

Another war crime hf licking these eastern regimes.