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There were no explosives placed at the dam. The dam was hit with high precision artillery strikes.
by orangepurple 3y ago
There were no explosives placed at the dam. The dam was hit with high precision artillery strikes.
- eitland 3y agoAbsolutely not. Every credible source points to the dam being blown by a ton or more of explosives inside it. Read up on dam busters to get an idea what it would take to destroy such a thing from the outside and then remember this dam was newer and IIRC designed to survive a nuclear war.
- orangepurple 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... Who controlled the dam at the time of the explosion?