Kakhova Dam: Russia is a terrorist state
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The Kakhova Dam: Russia is a terrorist state
President Zelensky has condemned the attack on the Nova Kakhovka dam in the Russia-occupied south of his country as “an environmental bomb of mass destruction” in his nightly address.
“Such deliberate destruction by the Russian occupiers and other structures of the hydroelectric power station is an environmental bomb of mass destruction,” he said.
He said that he destruction of the dam would “not stop Ukraine and Ukrainians. We will still liberate all our land. Only the complete liberation of Ukrainian land from the Russian occupiers will guarantee that there will be no more such terrorist attacks.”
Volodymyr Tretyak, Timeline
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.
I have translated this text from https://t.me/jurnko Telegram channel
President Zelensky’s statement:
Russian terrorists. The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam only confirms to the whole world that they must be expelled from every corner of Ukrainian land. Not a single meter should be left to them, because they use every meter for terror.
It’s only Ukraine's victory that will return security. And this victory will come. The terrorists will not be able to stop Ukraine with water, missiles or anything else.
All services are working. I have convened the National Security and Defense Council. Please spread official and verified information only.
Video: Olia Hercules
Zelensky Official 7:21 am: “This night at 02:50, Russian terrorists carried out an internal detonation of the structures of the Kakhovskaya HPP. About 80 settlements are in the flooding zone.” He continued:
The evacuation of citizens from the area at risk of flooding has been ordered, and to provide drinking water to all cities and villages that were supplied with the water from the Kakhovsky Reservoir.
We are doing everything to save people. All services, military, government offices are involved.
At the NSDC meeting, a set of international and security measures was agreed to hold Russia responsible for this terrorist attack. To real accountability.
Swedish simulation of the consequences of the Kakhova Dam flooding the area, via Ian Birrell.
The ecological trauma of such an inundation of water and silt has changed the landscape in an instant, wiping away islands and wetlands. It could take years if not decades for the fauna and flora to bounce back. President Zelensky, called it the “largest human-made environmental disaster in Europe in decades”. It is the country’s misfortune to have also been the site of the Chornobyl disaster in 1986, arguably the last calamity on such a scale.
Interior Ministry: 885 people evacuated from Kherson Oblast due to Kakhovka dam destruction. Ukraine's Interior Ministry reported on June 6 that 885 residents of Kherson Oblast had been evacuated as of 11:00 a.m. local time following Russia's destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant's dam.
Ukraine’s Minister of Energy: “Russia's destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant's dam in Ukraine's Kherson Oblast has put other energy facilities in the region at risk of flooding, in particular, the Kherson Thermal Power Plant, the Energy Ministry reported on June 6. Almost 12,000 households in Kherson's Ostriv district have been left without electricity due to the flooding, according to the Energy Ministry. Local authorities are reportedly preparing for potential issues with water supply as well.”
The Kremlin denies responsibility
Leonid Slutsky, State Duma’s Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, blamed the West for the destruction of Nova Kakhovka dam.
Anton Gerashchenko: "We mined everything on Kakhovka HPP. So, they'll f**king blow it up and will wash away Ukrainian Armed Forces on the other side" - a Russian says. The video was published on 10 December, 2022.
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesperson told reporters: “We can state unequivocally that we are talking about deliberate sabotage by the Ukrainian side.”
“Apparently, this sabotage is also connected with the fact that, having started large-scale offensive actions two days ago, now the Ukrainian armed forces are not achieving their goals - these offensive actions are faltering.”
Asked about Ukrainian allegations that Russia had destroyed the dam, Peskov said: “We can strongly reject this. We officially declare that here we are definitely talking about deliberate sabotage from the Ukrainian side.”
Dan Sabbagh—The Guardian
Ukraine will have to deal with destroyed dam plus the long-term environmental and humanitarian consequences. Experts fear it will wipe out islands in the delta and low lying settlements, mostly on the southern bank.
There are around 16,000 people estimated to be in the critical zone on the Ukrainian side of the river. Such predictable impacts mean it is likely to be a war crime, defined in the Geneva conventions if its breach causes “release of dangerous forces and consequent severe losses” to civilians.
Ukrhydroenergo: Kakhovka Reservoir to disappear in 2-4 days. The flood peak from the spilling of the Kakhovka Reservoir will happen in the morning of June 7, Ukraine's state-owned energy company Ukrhydroenergo wrote on June 6.
The areas most under threat of flooding are the islands along the course of the Dnipro downstream of Nova Kakhovka and much of the Russian-held left bank in southern Kherson. Andrey Alekseyenko, one of the Russian-installed officials in occupied Kherson, has posted to Telegram to say that up to 22,000 people are in the flood plains in Russian-controlled territory.
Video credit: Vadym Vietrov
Member of Ukrainian Parliament and colonel Roman Kostenko, currently in Kherson.
Some western analysts are reticent to lay the responsiblity of this tragic, terror event on the Russian forces. Last April, president Zelensky and analysts like Olga Lautman were warning about the inevitability of bombing the Kakhova Dam and others when the Russians were going to be in a bad spot militarily.
After everything we have witnessed since the full-scale invasion (and there is a lot that doesn’t make it to press) why would anyone doubt the Russians did this? This is how they operate and this is exactly what they have been signalling in their propaganda every night.
Julia Davis: More genocidal propaganda on Kremlin-controlled state TV. Pundit argues that for Russia to win this war, all of Ukraine's critical infrastructure has to be destroyed. He says it doesn't matter how awful it looks, since the West already considers Russians a horde of barbarians.
Andriy Yermak, Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff, said he “did not understand” how there could be any doubt about whether Russian forces blew up the Nova Kakhovka dam. In a statement given to the Guardian, the senior aide said the dam could not have been destroyed through shelling or “any other external influence” - while another adviser to the president said the attack amounted to a “war crime”.
“We know that Russian troops had mined the hydroelectric Station in the early days of the full-scale invasion, so the pre-meditated blast is the only plausible explanation. Any alternative theories are nothing less than false Russian propaganda narratives.”
Ukrainian volunteers are evacuating Kherson residents under continuous russian shelling: “no, i am not ready to die”—“go, go, brother – there are people there in need”.
Official: 2 city districts in Kherson flooded, over 600 residents evacuated. Two city districts in Kherson have been flooded and over 600 residents have been evacuated, Kherson City Military Administration Head Roman Mrochko announced in the afternoon of June 6.
Governor: At least 71 houses flooded in Ukrainian-controlled part of Kherson Oblast. At least 71 houses and three bridges were flooded on the west bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on June 6 around 4:30 p.m. local time. More water continues to flood towns and villages in the oblast.
NGO: Zoo in occupied Nova Kakhovka completely flooded, all animals but birds dead. A zoological garden in occupied Nova Kakhovka, "Kazkova Dibrova," is completely flooded due to the explosion at the Kakhovka dam, the animal rights organization UAnimals said on June 6.
The president of Energoatom, Petro Kotin, Ukraine’s state energy firm, has reiterated that the damage to the Nova Kakhovka dam does not pose an immediate safety threat to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP), which has been under Russian occupation since the earliest days of the full-scale invasion.
The chief of the UN’s atomic agency, Rafael Grossi, has issued a statement about the Nova Kakhovka dam destruction and its potential impact on nuclear safety at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP).
The IAEA staff on the site have been informed that the damage to the Nova Kakhovka dam is currently leading to about 5cm/hour reduction in the height of the reservoir.
The main line of cooling water is fed from the reservoir and pumped up through channels near the thermal power plant to the site. It is estimated that the water through this route should last for a few days.
Water in the reservoir was at around 16.4m at 8am. If it drops below 12.7m then it can no longer be pumped.
The ZNPP is making all efforts to pump as much water into its cooling channels and related systems as possible. In addition, non-essential consumers of water are being stopped at ZNPP to reduce the consumption of water.
ZNPP management is discussing further measures to be implemented.
There are a number of alternative sources of water.
A main one is the large cooling pond next to the site that by design is kept above the height of the reservoir. As the reactors have been shut down for many months it is estimated that this pond will be sufficient to provide water for cooling for some months. The agency will confirm this very shortly.
It is therefore vital that this cooling pond remains intact. Nothing must be done to potentially undermine its integrity. I call on all sides to ensure nothing is done to undermine that.
My trip to ZNPP next week was planned and now it is essential. I will go.
The EU has condemned the destruction of Nova Kakhovka dam, calling it a “horrific and barbaric” escalation of Russian aggression against Ukraine. Speaking at a press conference in Brussels, Peter Stano, the EU Commission’s spokesperson said: ”“This is a new sign of escalation, bringing the horrific and barbaric nature of Russian aggression against Ukraine to unprecedented levels.”
We are coordinating with the Member States to deliver rapidly:
dirt water pumps
fire hoses
mobile water purification stations
boats
We stand by Ukraine as long as it takes.
Reznikov: These are satellite images of the russian man-made disaster at the Nova Kakhovka Dam and HPP. The scene resembles a big-budget Hollywood post-apocalypse movie. However, this is the reality of the russian world. And the perpetrators of this war crime, another crime against humanity, will appear before the International Criminal Court. This Ukraine can guarantee.
John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council (NSC) has just spoken at the White House:
I don’t have a determination on that to speak to today. I would just say we’re still trying to assess what happened here, but the Russians had illegally taken over that dam in the reservoir many months ago, and they were occupying it when this explosion happened.
It’s very clear that the deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure is not allowed by the laws of war, and in the additional protocol to the Geneva Convention that the Russians have themselves signed, destruction of civilian infrastructure, such as dams,are clearly articulated in their violations of that code.
But again, we haven’t made a decision. We’re still talking to the Ukrainians.
I guarantee you you’re gonna see additional security assistance packages in coming days and weeks. We’re going to continue to make sure that Ukraine can succeed on the battlefield as President Biden has said.
If Russia is concerned about Ukrainian military capabilities, best thing that they can do would be to leave Ukraine.
We have made our concerns about strikes inside Russia very clear to Ukrainian officials. They’ve acknowledged that and they have assured us that they won’t use US-made equipment to strike inside Russia.
We don’t want to see the war escalate and, and there’s no apologies for that. But I won’t go into detail about the private discussions that we’re having with with Ukrainians.
NBC News reports that the US government has intelligence that indicates Russia is behind the blowing up of the Nova Kakhovka dam, according to two US officials and one western official. US president Joe Biden’s administration was working to declassify some of the intelligence and share it as early as Tuesday afternoon. The western official said the collapse appears likely to make it more difficult for Ukrainian forces to conduct a river crossing.
German chancellor Olaf Scholz has blamed Russia for the attack on the Nova Kakhovka dam, Reuters reports. Speaking a townhall organised by broadcaster RTL, Scholz said: “By all accounts, this is aggression by the Russian side to stop the Ukrainian offensive, to defend its own country. This shows that this is a new dimension.”
EU to help Ukraine ease consequences of Kakhovka dam destruction. The European Union is ready to aid Ukraine in mitigating the consequences of the Kakhovka dam's destruction, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said after a phone call with EU's chief diplomat Josep Borrell.
Before committing yet another war crime- blowing up Nova Kakhovka water dam -did Russia check how many Russians will drown? How many people speaking Russian will die? How many books of Dostoyevsky have drowned already? How many people able to perform Tschaikovsky will drown?
Or is Russia finally ready to admit that it has never cared about people speaking Russian just like it has never cared about anyone or anything else but the destruction.
By killing in Ukraine, Russia destroys its own nation and country,in front of its own eyes, with its own bloody hands. Ukraine will stand firm, soon a member of EU and NATO, just like we stand firm with Ukraine today.
But if Russia wants to destroy itself as a country Russia could as well do it within its own internationally recognized borders.Russian peace…There must be something wrong with the language or the dictionary Russia uses if this is what Russia calls “peace”.
Just like last year with the word “dialogue”.
In what language the grandchildren of Russian war criminals will apologize?
If Russia still will be a country, member of international organizations and if the Russian language is an official language in those organizations like it is here today, Russians might apologize in Russian.
This year’s (just like last year’s) Russian language day embodies what the words “Russian peace” really mean.”