This first link has best visuals but is pro-Ukraine channel. Well, The Bear swiped back and it’s baaad… Kiss Kherson and everything below that goodbye! WOW!
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I think I might take a mental health break from the news (again). All this destruction is very depressing.
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I just got off my break and I’m ready to go back on another break.
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I don’t blame you one bit.
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UPDATE: Of course, U.S. “Intelligence” is going to ‘reveal’ Russia did it…
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So far nobody is taking credit for it but as usual Russians blame Ukraine and so forth. I am wondering perhaps a third party let this dam burst?
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More than likely structural weakening, and then it just burst.
@WuWu I was listening to an interview with Col. Douglas Mcgregor (sp?) who conjectured the same thing. It was theorised by someone else (can’t remember their name, sorry) who suggested it was Ukrainian rockets misfiring into the dam. Although it does not appear to be the dam structure itself but rather the sluice?
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I’ve also heard that it was a possible structural failure.
Interesting how it was immediately blamed on Russia, flooded mostly Russian territory and occurred within 24 hours of the start of Ukr Offensive.
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Yesterday I watched the news and the Ukraine government were pleading for aid. I wonder how much will actually go to those who need it?
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Yesterday i listened to Joseph’s speculation on the blow-up. he said that he does not buy that either of the warring parties (Ukros or Rooskies) blew it up, but most likely an op of the the USSA or the UK.
now check this:
here’s the ‘transcript’:
Transcript of conversation Ukraine claims proves Russia blew up Nova Kakhovka dam
Ukraine’s domestic security service (SBU) said earlier on Friday it had intercepted a telephone call proving a Russian “sabotage group” blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric station and dam in southern Ukraine.
A one-and-a-half minute audio clip on its Telegram channel of the alleged conversation featured two unidentified men who appeared to be discussing the fallout from the disaster in Russian.
In the conversation the first speaker starts by saying: “News. Yesterday there was a video in the Telegram channel – a soldier was standing there, his face covered, in his uniform. And he says there is no flooding, that people are living normally. And behind him there is a window and you can see knee-deep water.”
The second speaker says: “It’s funny. Is it about the fact that the hydroelectric power plant was destroyed?”
The conversation continued:
Speaker one: Yeah. The main problem is that the hydropower plant cools their nuclear reactor.
Speaker two: That’s fine. They did it to themselves. It’ll blow up and that’s it.
Speaker one: So our guys did it. It’s not them, it’s ours.
Speaker two: Really, it was ours? They said that the Khokhols [derogatory term for Ukrainians] blew it up.
Speaker one: They didn’t blow it up. Our saboteur group is there. They wanted to cause fear with this dam. It did not go according to the plan. More than they planned.
Speaker two: Yeah, well, naturally. It’s gonna be like Chornobyl, right?
Speaker one: Built in the 1950s. It went down fast, it went down.
Reuters reports the SBU did not offer further details of the conversation or its participants. It said it had opened a criminal investigation into war crimes and “ecocide”.
“The invaders wanted to blackmail Ukraine by blowing up the dam and staged a man-made disaster in the south of our country,” it said in a statement.
Russia and the officials it has imposed in occupied Ukraine have blamed Kyiv for destroying the dam but have offered no evidence, and varying conflicting explanations.
Updated at 10.27 BST
from the Guardian… khmm GCHQ is working full time on BS-spreading. it nicely fits into Joseph’s speculation.