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Kovalchuk considered flooding the river. The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakho
by twelve40 3y ago
Kovalchuk considered flooding the river. The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages.
The test was a success, Kovalchuk said, but the step remained a last resort. He held off.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/29/ukraine-offensive-kharkiv-kherson-donetsk/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/29/ukraine-offe...
- KptMarchewa 3y agoThe dam is totally broken, not "raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages", besides there are no russian crossings now. There will be no crossings for months too as soil captures shit ton of water.