Kakhovka Dam

• Why Russia Really Blew Up The Khakovka Dam

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• This is my home town of Hola Prystan. It seems the flooding from the dam will hit the town particularly hard. Im bracing myself for something awful. Can’t imagine how people who live there are feeling. Not to mention the disaster for the wildlife. It’s such a beautiful place 😢

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• The Kakhovka reservoir has reached 'dead pool' only two days after its dam was breached, and is no longer able to supply settlements or the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. It's expected to stabilise at a drastically lower depth and to shrink the Dnipro's width by kilometers

• Tymofiy Mylovanov, Tucker Carlson yesterday made incorrect and false claims about the situation with Kakhovka dam explosion.

explosion

https://twitter.com/dkaleniuk/status/1666758666442227713

https://www.jordskjelv.no/meldinger/seismic-signals-recorded-from-an-explosion-at-the-kakhovka-dam-in-ukraine

Responsibility

Russian invasion of Ukraine/War crimes#attacks on civilian infrastructures

• Olevich says that if blowing up of Kakhovska HPS dam is beneficial to Russia, then this is not a crime It is a crime according to Article 56 of First Additional Protocol to Geneva Conventions for Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts to which Russia is a Party

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1666514248401289216

https://twitter.com/BadBalticTakes/status/1666349657969115139

• Anastasia Klimash, "Wow, blowing up the dam caused so much destruction. No way Russians would do that deliberately. It's likely an accident/Ukraine's fault/dog that nibbled on the dam until it breached." In case you didn't notice, they've been denying us the right to exist all this time.

https://twitter.com/adnashmyash/status/1666911217313562626

• Destruction of Nova Kakhovka Dam: 'Overwhelming' evidence points to Russia

https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1667100337453277185

• https://twitter.com/KarstenStrauss/status/1666845924339986443

• https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1667210624525320193

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/16/world/europe/ukraine-kakhovka-dam-collapse.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/19/kakhovka-dam-collapse-image-apparently-explosive-laden-car-ukraine-russia?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

russia mined the dam

• "We have mined everything at the Kakhovka HPP. In short, they will blow up the Kakhovka HPP and wash away the AFU, what's on the other side." Video published on December 10, 2022.

russia hindering evacuation efforts

https://twitter.com/i_gil_/status/1666895677790511121

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https://twitter.com/Roal_Yr/status/1667531089299005443 (!)

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• Hundreds of occupied Oleshky residents died because of Russians' refusal to evacuate them after blowing up Kakhovka HPP

Victims

https://twitter.com/t_bezruk/status/1666167128871845888

Flooding

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1666477868447047680

https://twitter.com/KnightMirko/status/1666361946092851200

Early warnings

https://tvpworld.com/64077600/russians-have-planted-explosives-inside-the-huge-nova-kakhovka-dam-zelenskyy-says

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/583

• All world leaders should make Russia understand that the terrorist attack on the Kakhovka HPP will be equated to the use of weapons of mass destruction - address by the President of Ukraine 20 October 2022
  • https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/address-by-president-volodymyr-zelensky-oct-20-2022-2/

Legal context

• https://twitter.com/Bwarzy/status/1666110066250985475

• Постановление Правительства Российской Федерации от 30.05.2023 № 873

"Об особенностях применения на территориях Донецкой Народной Республики, Луганской Народной Республики, Запорожской области и Херсонской области положений законодательства Российской Федерации в сферах промышленной безопасности опасных производственных объектов и обеспечения безопасности гидротехнических сооружений" (archive)

• Russia gave advance permission to not investigate its attack on Ukraine’s Kakhovska Dam

• https://twitter.com/Iamthisnotthat1/status/1666115142579363841

Reactions

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russian denial

https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1666184047503060993

https://twitter.com/VolodyaTretyak/status/1666015265971118082

Volodymyr Tretyak 🇺🇦 @VolodyaTretyak Very important on #Kakhovka. The chronology of the terrorist attack by Russian terrorists. Or how Russians screwed in their excuses.

At two o'clock in the morning, the Russians blow up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, but they don't see how much. It's not very visible, but it can still hit.

1. The Russians still think that they have neatly blown up a small part of the HPP and are flooding our military on the islands. At 6:06 a.m., the head of Nova Kakhovka, Leontyev, said that the explosion of the GES was nonsense. Like, we don't know why the water rose there. Here is the link to Ria Novosti's http://archive.is/aTyK8

2. Russian OSINT intelligence community Rybar picks up the thesis and says a small area was blown up at 6:51 a.m. Link http://archive.ph/flapa

3. At 6:51 in Nova Kakhovka, they see that the dam is a complete ass, and the mom's stratagems start to realize that they are in trouble. The mayor of Nova Kakhovka abruptly changes his rhetoric and says there was no explosion, it was a shelling by the Ukrainian army. Link http://archive.ph/LFFKF

4. But the propagandists, who do not know what the fuck has happened, continue to work according to the methodology and continue to throw into the information space that the dam was previously shelled, and then it got a little tired and broke a little. Here is a post by Podolyaki's propagandist http://archive.ph/DgQIV. And the propaganda channel War on Fakes http://archive.ph/GRN55

5. Other telegram channels that cooperate with the military are happily hopping on one leg, cheering, because of the undermining of the Kakhovka dam, the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the islands are flooded, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to evacuate and escape, and then they publish joyful reports of how they are hitting the positions of our guys on the islands. 08:25 Link http://archive.ph/c0iHL

6. Here, the Russians are slowly realizing that they have created a large-scale man-made environmental disaster, almost as large as Chernobyl. And they are starting to reverse. Russian influence on the information space is changing its tone dramatically. They instantly change their tune and start accusing the Ukrainian side of provocations. Like it's a Bankova operation A reference to the same "war on fakes" that said the dam had somehow collapsed on its own.... http://archive.ph/x8uwT But even in their excuses, the racists still screwed up. Either the dam was blown up, or Olha was shelled with MLRS.... http://archive.ph/uF0Xm Although any sapper will give a hundred percent guarantee that it is impossible to make such destruction from the outside, the damage here was done by planting explosives

And then they are already beginning to adhere to this thesis, because what they have done is a huge international tragedy, especially in the environmental sense.

Ecological impact

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1666020690217009152

https://twitter.com/rshereme/status/1666019142959353859

• Greta Thunberg This ecocide as a continuation of Russias unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine is yet another atrocity which leaves the world lost for words. Our eyes are once again on Russia who must be held accountable for their crimes.

https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1666831013899632641

https://ecfr.eu/article/the-dam-has-burst-how-russias-war-on-ukraine-could-make-ecocide-an-international-crime/

Animals

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Crimea impact

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Communication

https://twitter.com/United24media/status/1666174159263498250

Propaganda

https://twitter.com/NatalkaKyiv/status/1667564350591098881

Historical precedent

https://twitter.com/ruinwanderer/status/1665932026795491329

• Ukrainian Activists Draw Attention To Little-Known WWII Tragedy

Similar attacks

• Not Kakhovka Dam alone: Russia destroys dams in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast

More threats

https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1666286333898240000

Почему ситуация с взрывом дамбы Каховской ГЭС прекрасна? Объясняю. В этой войне у нас всегда будет один главный козырь, который можно будет применить против хохла. И это даже не ядерное оружие. Это дамба Киевского водохранилища. Маленький тоненький мостик, который сдерживают миллионы тонн воды, которые моментально хлынут на Киев и смоют эти авгиевы конюшни в канализацию. Дамба старая, гнилая, ржавая. Много ракет не понадобится. Сотни тысяч киевлян, особенно тех кто проживают на низком левом берегу скорее всего моментально погибнут. Киев от этой катастрофы уже не оправится никогда. Уверен, что эта дамба является бомбой замедленного действия таймер которой уже начал тикать. Спасибо СССР за этот козырь в нашем рукаве. t.me/apwagner/8369

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Rescue operations

• Russians shooting at rescuers in flooded areas, Zelenskyy says

• https://twitter.com/tweetforAnna/status/1666768567776231427

• https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1666767421732970498

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