• And I could easily flip the question around to OP. Why would Ukraine blow up their own dam,

    To justify more retaliation against Russia. Our dick of minister Charles Michel called it a war crime.

    Crimea has 1 year worth ?

    And what happens on year 2?

    •  pingveno   ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) 
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      To justify more retaliation against Russia.

      Ukraine doesn’t need more justification. Russia is occupying their territory. It doesn’t make sense for Ukraine to cause yet more internal displacement and risk a nuclear meltdown for something it already has.

      • What’s the point of flooding a region by destroying your “assets” when you could mass bombing like a deaf these villages.
        After all, the west sells the war like an hegemonic move with mass slaughtering traits. Why Russia is not so heavy on using aviation, then?
        US were using tomahawks on Syria for less than that.

        If destruction and high toll number (aka ethnic cleansing) was the goal, they won’t deliver like a grocery shop.

          • At least in the US, most people are not tracking this in anything but generalities. If they even know this dam was breached, they won’t know the significance. It’s also doesn’t have quite the visual impact of row after row of bombed out apartments or bound bodies from a massacre.