Russia has blamed Ukraine for the attack, but experts say that Moscow is the only State that would stand to benefit as Ukraine’s counter-attack looms.
RIGHT NOW, HASTILY evacuated villages along the Dnipro River are being flooded as an enormous reservoir of water – that was being held back by the now parFtially destroyed Kakhovka dam – courses through them, causing displacement and destruction.
Footage from Nova Kakhovka, the city immediately downstream from the dam shows the Palace of Culture and administrative centre completely flooded.Ukranian President Vlodimir Zelenskyy has swifty condemned the attack on the dam as a Russian act of “terror”. Dr Tom Clonan, senator and security analyst, said that attacking the dam would be a “desperate move” by Russia to slow down Ukraine’s counter-offensive.“The whole world has been holding its breath to see how and where the Ukrainians are going to launch their counter-offensive.
“By flooding these areas, Russia would make them temporarily unsuitable for heavy Ukrainian armoury to advance. “For Russia, there is also an element here of showing the West what it is prepared to do, by attacking a huge dam that is linked so closely with the nuclear plant, they are saying ‘This is what we are prepared to do’,” Dr Clonan said.
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