The Loss of Kakhovka Reservoir: Every Day
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- Опубліковано 19 лют 2024
- In June of 2023, the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine was destroyed leading to temporary floods and the ultimate drying up of Kakhovka Reservoir.
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Sources:
- “Drainage of the Kakhovsky Reservoir Caused by the Russian Detonation of the Hydroelectric Power Plant.” Map. Kyiv: Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, 2023.
- “Satellite Detected Waters Evolution over Khersonska, Dnipropetrovska, Mykolaivska, Odeska, and Zaporizka Oblasts in Ukraine.” Map. Geneva: UNOSAT, 2023.
- “Ukraine Nova Kakhovka Dam Breach Update.” Map. Flooding Due to the Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam. Brussels: ECHO, 2023.
Aral lake: "finally a worthy opponent"
And Russia is involved again
@@umas6100 2037: Russia drains the Indian Ocean.
@@umas6100 There is no proof that the Russians did it. The Ukrainians MOST LIKELY blew it up so their forces could cross the river easier to get a bridgehead.
@@umas6100aral sea was drained for the virgin lands program. A program sponsored by Kruschev a Ukrainian and opposed by most Russian Soviet politicians.
@@umas6100so is Ukraine Khrushchev
That must be a huge environmental crisis for any animals that made their home there or survived there.
so is the entire war. i would argue that has a far bigger impact.
Yeah, poor animals whilst humans getting killed every day in the region... Nice priorities.
@@matthewbarabas3052 war doesn't necessarily mean the entire erasure of a habitat. The forests and it's animals still have a home to return to. The fish and amphibians who aren't even in harms way of bullets now no longer have a home (and are all most likely dead from asphyxiation anyways).
No shit Sherlock....
In Other News: Water is wet.
It’s not a big deal, it was an artificial lake anyway, they can rebuild it after the war.
Another casualty of war, RIP
War, war never changes.
We lost a real one today 😞
@@jeremyallen7299 8 months ago
2 months ago
Free the lakes! They had nothing to do with this
Real
@@ThatCrxEditor average sigma
@@michaelknowles1405finally someone calling out others for being a sigma in the correct way
@@KeyUploads bro I think you have the Wong Michael
It was a technical lake. So it came back to normal.
Wow. I knew that the destruction of the dam was really damaging, but seeing the lake entirely disappear really puts it into perspective.
Rest in peace Lake
You wont be forgotten
Completely man made, the dam was damaging nature
@geo.m1639 wait fr?
I mean can't it be rebuilt eventually?
@@outerspace7391 yeah, it prevents many migratory fish from reaching the rivers in eastern ukraine
I can somewhat understand those random blue spots on Russian held territories if they are confirmed areas of partisan activity but that huge blue area around Melitopol? It gives the impression that Melitopol was encircled by Ukrainian troops what it was not. I've heard of partisan activity in and around Melitopol but this map is highly misleading.
Any blue spot is too large for representing partisans held territory
@@albertoamoruso7711 True.
I don't believe that the blue spots represent solid partisan controlled land, I just think it means that there is partisan activity within the spot.
@@superspy-xv9sx But it still is misleading. He should've used different color.
In fact, there are no partisans there, and there never have been. At the first stage of the war, the AFU forces that remained encircled in these areas put up sporadic resistance. It was these units, which had not had time to retreat, that were presented as "partisans". When these units were suppressed, the "guerrilla" movement ceased.
I was there, in Nikopol, while it happened
О привіт
I thought you were inactive, lol.
OMG
Tell us, how was it from your perspective? Did you saw the water level dropping level by level as the day peogressed?
@@dastanjan320 Yes, i wake up every morning to check what is going, and new islands arose every day, after few days it just turned into mess.
Coast of the Nikopol is patroled by teritorial defence and they dont allow civilians around, but one day there was a huge rain and they decided to hide in cover, so i was able to make some photos.
In other days i made photos from far standing on hill
Tnx was curious as the deal with the lake region was these days. Always think it is something like this. But no one really talks about it.
my friend lives near this lake and says that the lake resembles a desert, swamp and forest, so everything is relatively normal
Lake doesn't exist anymore.
I believe the Crimean canal was also dried up by the dam's destruction
Да, он серьёзно пострадал, впрочем до этого Украина канал не использовала из-за введённой в 2014 году властями Украины водной блокады против жителей Крыма.
@@KuzminDA Украина использовала канал, именно в Крым был закрыт доступ
@@KuzminDA Когда русские взорвали дамбу то в Крыму из кранов шла грязная вода, так что ничего не отключали.
@@user-pu1uj6zh5hрусские?) А кому это выгодно, не подскажешь?
@@Uivy17 Вам, чтобы замедлить передвижение контрнаступления ВСУ, затопить Херсон, поднасрать украинцам как вы любите, да и к тому-же вы далеко не в первые дамбы в Украине подрываете.
dam 😔
its gone.
Dam n
😂
As someone who is a Meteorology major, you should explore and map out past tornado outbreaks in the US. I think it would be cool to see the track of tornadoes over a short period of time. Loved this video!
That would be pretty interesting. 1974 and 2011 come to mind.
Let's hope they don't get too salty
Ahahaha
Umm, actually , it was already a part of a river ☝️🤓
infrastructure and environmental impacts aside, with how many boats must have passed through the reservoir over the decades, the former lake bed must be a hella great spot for metal detecting now.
There were many videos from that time of people finding skulls and helmets of WW2 German soldiers on the dry lake bottom and I remember reading they found some old Cossack boats so yeah there’s definitely a lot there.
@@cactuscartocratus7228in some ways a time warp there were Soviet and German maps of the area which was flooded prior to 🛰️ imagery
It’s probably too dangerous to go there because of the war, the new dried up lake bed is right on the frontlines, I wonder if the Ukrainian and Russian armies are/will travel around there.
Very interesting! Pretty much all maps do not accurately portray the change. This is good to know.
I was waiting for so long to see a map that shows the military control as the water recedes. Thanks tigerstar
This lake was artificially created in 1956, destroying homes and animal habitats. 50 years later animals and humans have adapted to this change. Then this lake gets drained again and is returned to how it once was. However, this will create agricultural problems and drinkable water for southeast Ukraine. It's one of the main reasons why the dam and reservoir was built
This will surely affect the trout population
It will help trout massively, they now have access to hundreds of miles of rivers in eastern ukraine that were blocked by the dam
Treebeard’s been real quiet since this happened
Wow, i thought that the destruction of the dam was just a minor inconvience, but after seeing the lake quickly dry up, it gave an advantage for both sides to gain significant territory in this war
That is going to be a massive mudflat now and no one is making moves over it for the fact it will be flat and muddy.
With enough wood and material, you can shore up the mud enough to get a column of vehicles across, so it would just be a matter of securing an area with infantry long enough to build it. Though winter might freeze the mud enough to make crossing the mud with vehicles possible, which would make moving materials and shoring up the ground in preparations for spring much easier.
Yes indeed
holy shit i completely forgot about this
We still don't know who did it, the propaganda machine didn't even let the discussion begin.
Our ability to destroy our environment so quickly with such ease is honestly horrifying.
The lake was fully man made, destroying the dam restored it to how it was naturally.
I love the fact that it thousands probably lost their homes and where killed by the water but you worry abt the environment 😂😂
@@cristiii7605 Is there a problem being saddened by both?
@@cristiii7605 how do you know they weren’t bothered about the people too? You’re just being argumentative lmao
what do you use for these kinds of videos?
It’s paint dude
Melitopol encirclement? WTF?
There are partisans
@@umas6100 Is this a joke or what?
@@umas6100 where?
Western maps usually includes big areas of Zaporogye as “partisan zones”. This is really strange
@@fillfilin2287It is, western sources like to paint everywhere “partisans” that don’t actually exist.
will that have any major consequences for the land, the habitability and its agriculture?
Yes, all of those. I imagine whoever owns it when this is all over will rebuild the dam at some point.
I wonder how long it'll be until the former lakebed is dry and solid enough to support mechanised brigades.
Probably in a long time
i wonder where you can find current sattelite images of the lake, i want to know how it looks today 6 months later.
What lake?
@@Quareque reservoir duh
So if the lake dried up then it will be easier for both forces to cross this summer?
Probably not significantly since there is still a river, plus the former lake bed is a wide expanse of open terrain
its still probably a marsh and like the other said its a huge open terrain so anything that try to cross can be shoot at from a distance
Technically yes, but the Dnieper is still one of Europe's largest rivers regardless.
Not neccessarily, it is far too open which means that armor will be easily picked off which means infantry will be exposed as well.
it's far too muddy to be passable. years of accumulation of silt makes crossing even more difficult (too liquid for vehicles, too solid for ships).
wow this has literally changed the face of the earth
I love how it's like both sides teamed up to defeat Water.
Kakhovka Reservoir, not Kakhovka Lake.
A reservoir is a type of lake.
"Its not a sandwich, its a Cheesesteak Sub"
@@EmperorTigerstarwell obviously but the official name of that lake is the Kakhovka Reservoir.
@@EmperorTigerstarnot necessarily, a lake implies that it’s naturally formed, reservoirs are mostly man made.
Back to it's original form, just a river!
Now you kinda understand why they did it. They did it so they can cross the area. Easier to blow the damn and let the reservoir dry up.
im going to miss this lake, but also..
What is that imaginary ring around Melitopol? There arent any soldiers there.
Partisan rings.
@@josef7525 well there isnt a partisan siege of the town. Its pretty misleading and illogical.
@@muratbayraktar5035 It could be obscure for all I know.
So it returned to its natural state?
Yes and no. It had been a reservoir for nearly a century so the water leaving kinda left a muddy mess.
The southwest portion did, but the northeast portion did not.
@@EmperorTigerstar"nearly a century" is too much of a grasp. The reservoir has been there since the 50's, and there have been many viseos regarding its current state, and it looked more like a desert type of land (because there was originally no plants to grow since it was all water right).
@@deucedwayne The green started to reappear all over the former bottom of the reservoir by the late summer and autumn of 2023, this year we may potentially see all of the former reservoir turned into the grasslands besides the areas with newly formed marshes
@@lordfoxquaad1611 yeah I've seen various videos about the former bottom turning green but I forgot which part of the reservoir it was specifically: was it near Kherson or Dnipro city? I forgor. Also there is a vey small chance that the return of the reservoir will happen, so probably in hte end we gained more territory than we expected lol
Interesting move to just make the artificial lake "disappear" to potentially open up a new front.
Russia busted the dam to temporarily prevent a Ukrainian crossing near Kherson and allow them to focus troops elsewhere, but now they have +150% more river to defend from a crossing, instead of a more easily defensible lake.
@@Michaelonyoutubit's far too muddy to be passable. years of accumulation of silt makes crossing even more difficult (too liquid for vehicles, too solid for ships).
@@Michaelonyoutub I think that was indeed the Russian plan, but the circumstances suggest that the explosives in the dam were detonated prematurely, presumably due to human error.
Really? How do you know? @@Michaelonyoutub
Part 2: the Water rebellion when?
Could you use arrows at the beginning of the video to point out all the important locations so I know where to focus? Thank you
Did u know that the new hoi4 dlc fixed the South America map
So this map implies the frontline simply shifted from the shore pf the lake to the dnipro river.
Partisans❤
Why the blue bits in Russian territory (especially around Melitopol)
Partisans
@@danilapolesciuk4316 Maybe but partisans dont control territory.
@@prohibitedarea8590 Why are you being serious about a goddamn map.
RIP for Lake
I was wondering what that weird light blue area on maps of the Ukraine invasion was.
as it started to dry up the russians and ukrainians started scrambling for parts of it
dam
The map of Europe is changed forever
Not forever, when the war is over they’ll just rebuild the dam and it’ll all be back to normal.
The map of Europe changes constantly from rivers moving so this makes no sense
Water will win
How did I just today learn that one of the largest lakes in Eastern Europe ceased to exist 9 months ago
It's not a lake.
@@Quareque it’s a reservoir I know
How did it disappear so quickly?
Before the soviets these lands were steppes and semideserts. The dam made conditions way better for agriculture, but also made a giant lake in an unusual for nature place
Is the river gone now?
No but the big lake south of Zaporizhzhia doesn’t exist anymore
@@noyes9984 oh ok
Question about Melitopol. what?
Western maps like to mark these areas as "partisan controlled". in reality Russia only had minor incoveniences regarding "partisans" such as vehicle bombings and assasination attempts. There's no proof "partisans" controll any land around Melitopol
western lies; russia is on the cusp of victory
Great!
Millions will no go hungry.
such a tragedy.
It seems like Ukraine is the one who gained the most land from it. Also, is Melitopol really surrounded? Partisans don't really control any territory.
I think that partisan activity should be marked differently to "normal" Ukraine. After all, territory controlled by Ukraine and Ukrainian land under Russian occupation with local partisans is not quite the same
They expanded land by using galvanized square steel
Area of "Ukrainian control" around Melitopol is not accurate. They've done a few acts of sabotage in the area but this makes it look like they're besieging the city or something.
Ukraine Resistance/Partisans Surrounds Melitopol?
I'm from Melitopol, and it's Partisans
Clearly a teaser for a remake to be released later this week
I never supported that at all what are you talking about?
@@EmperorTigerstar I think he refers to the description on the right : blue: Ukraine, red: Russia (it should be: "occupied by Russia" or "controlled by Russia")
I did not like that as well, but apart from that interesting video.
@@rolfrolfes7594just cause he wasn't specific with it doesn't immediately mean he supports what's going on.
I know it's a tense topic but pointing a finger at everyone all the time isn't gonna help anything
@@imshy2113 Not being accurate and sensitive to the politization of the topic at hand won't help anything either. Russians have stripped Ukrainians nationhood and identity for centuries, through their overlordship, occupation, g-nocides and wars but also through language and propaganda. Ukrainians are particularly sensitive regarding that. Not being accurate in that sense is like a dozen dogwhistles going off for Ukrainians, as far as I am aware. Spelling Ukrainian towns and cities with the Russian transliteration, saying "the Ukraine" calling the conflict "the Ukrainian war" (omitting the name of the aggressor and any reason for the war) and so on are all active ways Russian propagandists are trying to influence the narrative. They have been doing so for a long time too. It's no surprise that painting half of Ukraine red and labeling it "Russia" and confining the label of "Ukraine" to the other half of the country is going to tick them off.
@@peffiSC2source i understand that, and if i were in an Ukrainian's shoes i'd probably feel the same. Though, as a less sensitized European, it can be hard to keep that in mind while regarding the topic. From an outsider point of view, it seems overly difficult to not accidentally cater to one side of the issue especially with the limited vocabulary available in Online discussion boards.
So, my point is that it is like walking on a minefield when discussing Ukraine or the war, and it gets frustrating for many of us and just loops back around to further polarization because Westerners get angry at Ukrainian sensitivity.
We're all just too gullible to the Online mob, so the side that seems the most collected and least oversensitive always wins the narrative. It's sad to see, but it's how it is nowadays.
I also think this is why so many Gen Z are starting to lean Pro-Russia, which in itself is pretty alarming. Social Media is tearing us apart.
not the first time russia destroys a lake
tbh that lake was artificial and would have died if the dam was gone (like how lake mead would dry up with the hoover dam was destroyed)
So is Ukraine part of Russia now?
You mean Ukraine? It was Ukraine who planned to attack.
Нет войне!
I've seen farmers attempt to grow potatoes on these new lands, but this video really puts the environmental impact into perspective...
Of course they’re growing potatoes what else 😂😂
Обидно
За дамбу?
Каждая дамба это просто разрушение рек.
@@Quareque За водохранилище и канал в Крым. Крымскому земледелию точно будет не хорошо
@@AnonimBall21 И?
@@Quareque
-каждая дамба это просто разрушение рек.
-и?
Нормальный ответ?
@@Quareque хуи!
Україна не контролює територію вокруг Мелітополя.
Контролює
Капец, даже украинцы пишут, что не контролируют. Но автор видео упорно рисует какие-то выдуманные зоны контроля.
Ну как вам сказать, автор видео просто отметил сектор партизанской деятельности, даже судя по новостям мы довольно часто наблюдаем что в Мелитополе что кого-нибудь из коллаборационистов пристрелили или же взорвалась какая-нибудь машина, ещё реже появляются свидетельства от ГУР/СБУ о деятельности в этом регионе, в других регионах такого количества партизанской деятельности практически не наблюдается, поэтому максимум можно порекомендовать автору выделить эту часть региона светло - голубым цветом дабы внести ясность для комментаторов
I assume the dried up reservoir is unusable as a route to out flank the Russian fortifications in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Ukraine doesn't have any offensive capability anymore
@@1nhofI think they were always gonna be fighting a defensive.
@@toranziancentralnetwork Well then they're doomed.
@@1nhof Depends on whether its allies will deliver what they promised. Remember, the defense of Kyiv and the Kharkov and Kherson counteroffensives happened before combat vehicles were sent by the west. If Ukraine gets a steady supply of ammunition, long range missiles and the promised airframes they may gain a massive advantage eventually. Don't forget, a dozen or so Himars basically shifted the momentum against the "second army of the world".
@@peffiSC2source billions of 'donations' from the collective west, trashed. the ukraainian state, trashed. has elensky frantically begging for pennies
The war is too much stalemate so russia decided to use another way to gain land
У меня один вопрос, откуда чёрт возьми вы находите зоны контроля ВСУ на левом берегу? Их даже Украинское командование не нашло.
Yep, there is no one there. Sleep tight, Pidorussian :)
@@peffiSC2source Of course, in Zaporozhye, and even more so near Melitopol, there are no VSU, except as prisoners of war. I have not heard of such a nationality, but I am Russian.
Those areas are inhabited with ukrainian Partisans, which is different from being under actual ukrainian control. For the sake of historic truthfulness it should be shown in another colour, lined perhaps?
Maybe just a lighter shade of red.
Green could also be fitting
Disgusting how this infrastructural asset was destroyed
Why?
Ah yes, the three sides, Ukraine, Russia, and Water. I stand with Water.
When the tide moves more than the Frontline 😂
I wonder if this was enough to raise global sea level...
It is enough, but it probably rose by an unnoticeable amount
It is not enough the seas are so huge
"The dam was destroyed"
By whom? Say it.
Uruguaykraine
Ukraine
Most likely Russia, but it’s unknown.
@@SoujiOkitaTwo Always weird how much benefit of the doubt Russia gets. They have been lobbing rockets at Ukrainian cities, civilians and critical infrastructure for years now. But anything that isn't filmed in 4 angles by a 4k camera, caught by multiple international satellites and confirmed by Putin himself is somehow always a toss-up. Yeah, I bet Ukraine would have tons of reasons to blow up their own dam, on their territory, harming their civilians and infrastructure at a frontline where they had an advantage in, tying down many men for rescue operations for civilians under Russian fire. It's definitely a mystery whether it was Ukraine or the Russians who mined the dam the second they got control over it and one week before the dam blew up passed a law in Russia absolving the Russian government of any responsibility to care about infrastructure at the frontline or do something when it fails. I guess we will never know who did it.
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Ciudad de Nicolás
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Ciudad de Jersón
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To jest smutne jak Rosjanie niszczą świat!
Smart move by russia getting rid of a major barrier.
Couldn't keep the copium out of it I see
People look at this map and wonder: gee who wanted the dam blown?
Hint: the side which was planning to cross… happened right before a certain counter-offensive…
You guys don't even bother with being half-believable bots, huh?
there were literally leaked Russian phone calls in which the commanders admitted to blowing up the dam even then used logic the dam was made out of reinforced concrete the only way to destroy it would be to place bombs from the inside of the dam and why don't you just take a guess who was controlling the dam when it was destroyed
@@lt4109anyone can fake a "leaked phone call" and it wouldn't be the first time Ukraine lied about something. Also the dam was bombed by artillery so it can be either side
Можете обвинять сколько угодно Россию, но мы в это время стояли в обороне и намеренное уничтожение плотины максимально не выгодно было для русской обороны. Тут смотри, буквально в скором времени ВСУ закрепляются в Крынках в надежде на дальнейшие развитие наступления.
Война конечно плохо, но советую ещё раз пораскинуть мозгами, когда думаете об этом инциденте. Кому это выгодно в военном плане больше. Если России, то поясните, вижу только одни минуса.
didnt expect people to be sad over a lake drying up, but eh its kinda sad cuz the fishies gonna meet jesus
🤡🤡😂😂🤦♂🤦♂
Crazy just how fast the original state of nature returned after only a short time of human intervention (ie the dam) ending
Referring to Russian occupied Ukrainian territory as "Russia" is a spicy decision.
He's talking in terms of military progression.
@@toranziancentralnetwork Everyone knows that. It's still controversial at best and inaccurate at worst. The actual Russia isn't even on the map, so it would have been easy to just call the label "Russia controlled" isntead of "Russia". Literally one more word is all it took to make it better.
@@peffiSC2source He's used that style for almost all of his videos, don't see why this one needs changing.
@@toranziancentralnetwork No he doesn't. He usually uses three shades of the same color, differentiating between core territory and occupied territory. In the video The Dakota War of 1862: Every Day he even differentiates between territory, occupied territory and gains.
Russian liberated*
Famous melitopol partisans (not a single evidence of them)
Russia just doesn’t like lakes.
You mean Ukraine?
L
is it not going back to its natural state
I see an error here, all that red, it might be claimed, occupied, even bogus annexed by Russia. But it's still Ukraine.
It’s showing the front lines. That’s not an error. It’s an ongoing war. I didn’t label it Russian territory on the map, I colored it as Russia since they’re occupying it.
My colors don’t differentiate between occupied and legitimate, they differentiate between occupied and annexed. Russia’s annexation is bullshit, but I show it the same way I show Germany annexing parts of Poland despite it being bullshit. Just because I indicate it on a map doesn’t mean I support it.
@@EmperorTigerstar Wouldn't it be more accurate and less controversial to just write "Russia occupied" or "Russia controlled", especially on a map that doesn't even include Russia? I won't tell you how you have to make your videos, but it's kind of obvious that a Ukrainians whose sovereignity and independence has been questioned by its imperialist and revisionist neighbor Russia for decades, during a war of aggression and extermination waged by said imperialist and revisionist neighbor, won't react positively if you label half their internationally recognized country as Russia.
@@peffiSC2sourcehe's used this style on basically all his videos I think, no reason to switch because some people get mad.
@@toranziancentralnetwork No he doesn't. He usually uses three shades of the same color, differentiating between core territory and occupied territory. In the video The Dakota War of 1862: Every Day he even differentiates between territory, occupied territory and gains.
че за котлы у Мелитополя?!
Это зоны действий партизанского сопротивления.
@@Mikhayl_S_Vthere haven't been attacks in a long time.
@@Zz_Mike-Hawk_zZ Oooh you know Russian!
Well, this is the principle of guerrilla warfare, the necessary resistance appears out of nowhere and disappears into nowhere. therefore, even those zones that are drawn on maps can take over even larger areas than we see now.
@@Mikhayl_S_V I understand, but there are very few attacks, it is not very "intense". There are some attacks every once in a while but not many.
I know just a bit of Russian.
@@Zz_Mike-Hawk_zZ In principle, I can agree with this, because this is not World War 2 where the rear command of the occupying forces of Germany had difficulty begging for forces to eliminate partisan detachments in the forests, and in this war the territory in which this is possible is very small and also in the majority is the steppe where it is easier to find them.
It’s nature being restored.
Damned congress for not sending aid to Ukraine
The ISW should learn from you, it's embarassing how their maps fail to accurately depict this.
Stand with water, both sides are threatening Water's independence.
For anyone wondering who destroyed the bridge, the answer is no one.
No side had a reason to destroy it. Russia because of the water supply to Crimea and it's defence under the river, and Ukraine because it wanted to continue offensive operations.
The damages happened because it was in the frontline and no one could repair it.
What are you yapping about, Russians blew up it up from the inside to prevent an overwater assautl while the southern counter offense started.
Not true. Russia was looking like they might lose because a Ukraine counter was making great ground and no defense was prepared. They blew up the dam to prevent the counter from getting too far so they had time to create a stronger defensive line against Ukraine forces. Before the dam broke, there was legitimately a chance Crimea could have been lost, now there's no chance.
The water supply of Crimea as a reason for Russia's actions is a total meme and a made up reason. If Russia really cared about Crimeas water supply, then instead of wasting hundreds of billions on their miltiary and war, they could have built enough desalination plants in Crimea to turn the Black Sea into a freshwater lake.
It's clear the Russia is repsonsible for the dams destruction. They mined the thing right after taking control over it in February 2022. By October 2022 Ukrainian leadership literally stated that Russia would blow up the dam and blame Ukraine for it. One week before the dams destruction, Russia passed a law stating: "Until 1 January 2028, technical investigations shall not be carried out into accidents at hazardous production facilities and accidents at hydraulic structures that occurred as a result of military operations, sabotage and acts of t-rrorism." Aside from that, Russia has been targeting population centers, civilians and critical infrastructure in Ukraine for two years straight with complete disregard for practicability and perfectly in line with waht a t-rrorist state would do. Blowing up a dam fits perfectly into what Russia has been doing this whole war.
By the way, I am not writing this for you because you are either a brainwashed kid or a bot, judging by your profile. I am writing this for the people who'd seriously consider a comment written by a brainwashed kid or bot.
@@janedoe3043я не думаю, что уничтожение плотины хоть как-то замедлило и так провальное наступление в Запорожье
@@janedoe3043bro what? it was built specifically to withstand war in case of invasion from the west. the only way it could've been destroyed was if someone mined it from the inside.
Why are there pocjets of ukraien in russian territory?
Areas of Ukrainian Partisan activity
spelling 100
@@Gage_The_Comrade_or_Something is there much partisan activity to have blue circles like that
Because partisan activity does not usually justify changes to the map like that
Seems kind of misleading
@@simnm8057 Yeah, it’d probably be better for areas with partisan activity to be represented with blue-red stripes
@@Gage_The_Comrade_or_Something but like even then
Is the partisan activity frequent enough to justify a difference in the map?
Russia: blows up a dam to cause a lot of environmental damage and kills a lake
Also Russia few years ago: try’s using the same excuse when Poland built their own canal to avoid Kaliningrad but fails
So is Ukraine part of Russia is what you're saying
@@chadthundercock4806 no, they occupied Ukraine lands and they obviously aren’t a part of Russia, despite their attempts
@@The_whales Now you are contradicting yourself, you say Russia blew up the dam which would be admitting that Ukraine is part of Russia, the Ukrainian government blew it so you are calling them Russians
@@chadthundercock4806He's saying the Russians blew up something inside of Ukrainian territory.