PARIS: The gaping hole blasted into a key hydroelectric dam in southern Ukraine on Tuesday (Jun 6) will severely impede Kyiv's efforts to reconquer territory lost to Russia, even if Moscow risks seeing its defensive lines submerged. Moscow and Kyiv traded blame for the
PARIS: The gaping hole blasted into a key hydroelectric dam in southern Ukraine on Tuesday will severely impede Kyiv's efforts to reconquer territory lost to Russia, even if Moscow risks seeing its defensive lines submerged., which is designed to supply water to the Crimean Peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014, which could now be facing serious water supply problems.
The rising water in the Kherson region will make it very difficult for Ukraine forces to carry out any operation involving crossing the river to reclaim the eastern bank, in the direction of Crimea. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of having"undermined the dam", one of the largest in Ukraine. Russian authorities retorted:"lies".
Contemporary history offers many examples of the destruction of dams and floods in Europe for defensive and offensive purposes.In May 1943, the British Royal Air Force bombed German dams in the Ruhr valley, the country's industrial heartland.
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