Russia and Ukraine

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"At 02:50, Russian terrorists carried out an internal detonation of the structures of the Kakhovskaya HPP. About 80 settlements are in the zone of flooding," Zelenskiy said after an emergency meeting of senior officials.

A Ukrainian military spokesperson said Russia's aim was to prevent Ukrainian troops crossing the Dnipro River to attack Russian occupying forces.

Russia said Ukraine sabotaged the dam to cut off water supplies to Crimea and to distract attention from its faltering counteroffensive.

"We can state unequivocally that we are talking about deliberate sabotage by the Ukrainian side," Kremlin Spokesman Peskov told reporters.

Earlier some Russian-installed officials said no attack had taken place. Vladimir Rogov, a Russian installed official in Zaporizhzhia, said the dam collapsed due to earlier damage and the pressure of the water. Russia's state news agency TASS carried a report to the same effect.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/wha...023-06-06/

I don't think we'll know who did what, if anything, until the Ukrainians recapture the area. I definitely think that the timing points to a deliberate act by Russians, but at best that's circumstantial evidence. I've read that the dam had been previously damaged in the fighting too, which could be a cause or a contributing factor.

You know, Russians torture and kill at will in Syria, but the west kept silent about it for years and years, what's so special about Ukraine now? or Syrians weren't "human" enough for the west?

Gotcha, they weren't "blue-eyed blondes" like Ukranians I guess:

You act surprised. How naive are you?