Daily on Defense 🇺🇸 — Cui bono: Who blew up the Kakhovka dam?
WHO DID IT? As tens of thousands of Ukrainians scrambled to escape rising flood waters that inundated villages, wiped out farms, and threatened drinking water, Russia cranked up its information war over the destruction of the Kakhovka dam that unleashed an ecological and humanitarian disaster on the southern region of Ukraine.
“It was planned in advance by the Kiev regime for military purposes as part of the Ukraine forces’ ‘counteroffensive,’” Moscow alleged in a statement. “The Kiev regime not only launched mass artillery attacks against the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, but also deliberately brought the water level in the Kakhovka reservoir to a critical level by opening the Dneprovsky Hydroelectric Power Plant’s floodgates.
“What is clear and what we absolutely can say is that the damage to the Ukrainian people and to the region will be significant. This dam, which was built in 1956 as part of the Khakovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, sits astride Ukraine's Dnipro River. It's about 30 yards high and about 100 yards or so wide, and the reservoir it protects holds about as much water as the Great Salt Lake in Utah. So that's a lot of water,” Kirby said.
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