US puppet Zelensky is an international terrorist Leader. Ukraine blew up a dam in Kherson Region in an effort to cut off Crimea’s water supply and distract from a failed offensive. The act of sabotage may lead to “very serious consequences,” Dmitry Peskov has warned.
Ukrainian forces sabotaged the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam in Russia’s Kherson Region in a bid to deprive Crimea of drinking water and distract from Kiev’s faltering counteroffensive, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed on Tuesday.
The dam was partially destroyed early on Tuesday morning, sending torrents of water downstream and flooding towns and villages along the path of the Dnieper River.
“We are talking about a deliberate sabotage by the Ukrainian side,” Peskov told reporters. “This sabotage could potentially lead to very serious consequences for several tens of thousands of inhabitants of the region, environmental consequences and consequences of a different nature, which have yet to be established.”
Peskov claimed that one of the key goals of the attack was to deprive Crimea of water. Crimea’s 2 million residents largely receive their water from the North Crimean Canal, which is fed from the reservoir above the Kakhovka dam.
“This sabotage is also connected with the fact that, having launched large-scale offensive operations two days ago, the Ukrainian armed forces are not achieving their goals,” Peskov continued. Russia’s Defense Ministry has said it repelled several large-scale attacks in the southern sector of the front in recent days. These “offensive actions are choking,” Peskov stated.
Ukrainian officials and their European backers have accused Russia of blowing up the dam, with European Council President Charles Michel calling the attack “a war crime.” Moscow “strongly rejects” the accusation, Peskov said.
While the flooding now makes it difficult for Ukrainian forces to cross the Dnieper and attack Russia’s defensive lines, the destruction of the dam also appears to aid a number of Ukraine’s key objectives. The flooding mostly threatens the eastern bank of the river, where Russian troops withdrew to last year amid concerns that the Ukrainian military would blow up the dam.
With the dam destroyed, the level of the Dnieper has fallen further upstream, including at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. Ukrainian troops made several attempts to cross the river to recapture the plant from Russian forces last year, and lowering the water level would remove a major obstacle to future attempts. Additionally, the Soviet-era plant depends on water from the Dnieper to cool its reactors and its spent fuel rods.
The Ukrainian military conducted a test strike on the dam using an American-supplied HIMARS launcher last year, Ukrainian General Andrey Kovalchuk told the Washington Post in December.
Two months earlier, Russia’s envoy to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, warned the UN Security Council that Kiev’s forces were considering a “reckless” attack on the dam with sea mines or missiles. “The authorities in Kiev and their Western backers will bear full responsibility for all the consequences of such a devastating scenario,” Nebenzia cautioned, RT reports
Tucker Carlson released Episode 1 in his “Tucker on Twitter” program.
On Tuesday night Tucker Carlson took on the Ukraine Dam that was blown up on Tuesday. Tucker suggests the Kakhovka Dam explosion was likely a Ukrainian attack.
Tucker Carlson started his program:
“This morning it looks like somebody blew up the Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine. The rushing wall of water wiped out entire villages, destroyed a critical hydropower plant, and as of tonight, puts the largest nuclear reactor in Europe in danger of melting down. So if this was intentional, it was not a military tactic. It was an act of terrorism. Them the question is, who did it? Well, let’s see. The Kokovka dam was effectively Russian. It was built by the Russian government. It currently sits in Russian controlled territory. The dam’s reservoir supplies water to Crimea, which has been, for the last 240 years, home of the Russian Black Sea fleet. Blowing up the dam may be bad for Ukraine, but it hurts Russia more. And for precisely that reason, the Ukrainian government has considered destroying it. In December, the Washington Post quoted a Ukrainian general saying his men had fired American made rockets at the dam’s floodgate as a test strike. So really, once the facts start coming in, it becomes much less of a mystery what might have happened to the dam. Any fair person would conclude that the Ukrainians probably blew it up, just as you would assume they blew up Nordstream, the Russian natural gas pipeline, last fall.”
Tucker goes on to discuss the destructive nature of our fake news media complex “We’re the ones living in ignorance now.”
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— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 6, 2023
Donetsk, Jun 6 — DAN. Ukrainian forces fired multiple rocket launchers at Kakhovka hydroelectric plant facilities on Monday night ruining the dam and causing uncontrollable water release, Russia’s Kherson region officials said.
At present, the water level in Novaya Kakhovka in immediate proximity to the hydroelectric power plant has exceeded the ten-meter mark; a considerable part of the town has been flooded. A similar situation is developing in other riverfront settlements downstream the Dnieper.
The region has set up a crisis headquarters which is led by Acting Governor Vladimir Saldo. Regional government chairman Andrey Alexeyenko who is monitoring the situation said that the people’s lives were not under threat but that the authorities were ready to launch evacuation from dangerous districts.
“If you see the water rising which threatens you and your family, you have to gather them all together, take your documents, money and valuables and be ready to leave the riverfront, ” regional authorities said in a statement.
Some 80 settlements might find themselves in the flood zone. Meanwhile, the Dnieper water level which rose as a result of the destruction of hydroelectric power plant structures will return to normal in the Novaya Kakhovka area within 72 hours. The authorities are monitoring the situation.
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— Rev Laskaris (@REVMAXXING) June 6, 2023
No risk to Zaporozhye nuclear plant
The dam explosion triggered concerns about the situation at Russia’s Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, which is also located on the Dnieper and uses river water to cool its reactors.
However, the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has a constant presence at the facility, assured that there is “no immediate nuclear safety risk at [the] plant,” adding that it is closely monitoring the situation.
Still, the agency’s director Rafael Grossi pointed to “a significant reduction in the level of the reservoir used to supply cooling water” to the plant. He did state, however, that the NPP has an alternative water source that is estimated to last for several months.
The largest nuclear facility in Europe, the ZNPP came under Russian control in February 2022. Since then, Moscow and Kiev have accused each other of shelling the facility, with each claiming that the other’s actions could trigger a nuclear disaster. Zaporozhye Region became part of Russia following a referendum in September 2022, together with Kherson Region and the two Donbass republics.
Impact on Crimea
Sergey Aksyonov, the governor of the Russian peninsula, stated that while the incident at the Kakhovka dam won’t cause any flooding in Crimea, it may lead to a decreased water level in the North Crimea Canal, which serves as a key water source.
Still, he emphasized that the local water reservoirs are filled to 80% of their capacity, adding that “there is more than enough drinking water” and that efforts were underway to minimize the losses.