WouldBe
Dislicksick
Careless smoking if the dam had being rigged with explosives.
Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Careless smoking if the dam had being rigged with explosives.
According to the Association of State Dam Safety Officials ( slogan - A future Where All Dams Are Safe) . Personally, if we are going with natural causes I quite like Animal Activity
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WouldBe
Dislicksick
Bloody moles.
maomao
普費斯
Beavers, usually.Bloody moles.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
They usually build dams not destroy them.
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
On a slight change of tack, a friend of one of my Ukrainian students was taken of a train by a modern day press-gang this morning, despite having dependents who are totally reliant upon him. A minor story compared with the horrors of the dam explosion, but a reminder of how vile war is at all levels
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
By "natural causes" I meant more along the lines that they were intentionally filling the reservoir beyond design capacity, but that it failed in a disorganised way rather then someone twisting a knob. It does not require any heavy rain when you've been at it for months already. You can argue til you go blue in the face whether failure due to closing the sluice gates counts as "natural", but I only intended it as being the alternative to pushing a button labelled "Blow dam now". I fail for forgetting that this is a game about pedantry.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Pedant
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Apart from a quarter of them being Canadian and others being Australian I suppose they were
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Canada is in NATO.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Even in 1943 Canadians objected to being called brits. And no one was in nato in 1943Canada is in NATO.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
True but this dam was blown up in 2023.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
And Flight Lt Munro would like to inform you that Kiwi's object to being called Australian.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
TBF, that was 80 years ago, and blowing up dams was not a war crime (at least legally speaking) then.
And there has been plenty of fair criticism since about the action. This does not excuse Russia for its actions.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
you can't use the phrases 'to be fair' and 'legally speaking' in the same sentence without creating an inherent contradiction.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
How we are treated
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
All that would really do is to make it difficult for Ukraine to launch an attack into southwestern Ukraine, which was never likely to be a huge part of the operation, given that they'd have had to fend off the Russians in the south who were to the west of them. If they were going to launch a southbound attack, it'd be likely to be further East with the intention of cutting off Russian forces to the West. As things stand, they'll just be slightly soggier Russian forces.Can this be a clever move by Russia to make a barrier against the upcoming offensive from Ukraine, especially making the ground unsuitable for heavy tanks?
Going to have another look at the map
I have seen some speculation on Telegram that, somehow - and shockingly - the Russians might have actually botched up the actual plan, which was to partially flood the Dnipro delta with the aim of improving their defence against a cross-Dnipro waterborne attack, but actually ended up over-egging it and flooding their own defences, too.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
What has happened to the Russian shovel situation? The last time I read anything about it on here around March the Russians ( those that are fighting on the Russian side) couldn't get rifles etc to the front and they were having to share shovels as weapons. Have things improved? Have they got a shovel each yet?
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
So has the counter offensive started yet or are we going to wait as long as the next season of The Last of Us?
not-bono-ever
meh
Fuckin scummy action this. Wankers
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
The zoo in Kherson was fully submerged. Some ducks and swans got out, the rest not so lucky.
ETA: A correction, it was the zoo in Nova Kakhovka
ETA: A correction, it was the zoo in Nova Kakhovka
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Flavour
hang the bankers
I feel like maybe you haven't been paying much attention to my other posts
WouldBe
Dislicksick
A bucket may be more appropriate right now.
strung out
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USA officials reckon it started on Monday.
Biden administration officials believe the offensive began on Monday with a Ukrainian thrust south along multiple axes. A major goal is to cut the land bridge across southeastern Ukraine that connects Russia with its occupation forces in Crimea, U.S. officials believe. Part of Ukraine’s strategy appears to be an attack along several lanes, so they can move forces among them to hit targets of greatest opportunity.
Administration officials were encouraged by better-than-expected progress Monday, as Ukrainian units pushed through heavily mined areas to advance between five and 10 kilometers in some areas of the long front. That raised hopes that Ukrainian forces can keep thrusting toward Mariupol, Melitopol and other Russian-held places along the coast — severing the land bridge.
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