Kherson dam destruction is a ‘Russian war crime’ | Yuriy Sak
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- “We are not on a mission to destroy our villages, to ruin the lives of our people.”
Claims by Russia that Ukraine is responsible for the destruction of a dam in Kherson is ‘propaganda,’ says Yuriy Sak, advisor to the Ukrainian Minister of Defence.
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Acts of terrorism should be grounds for expulsion of The Russian Federation from the UN security Council.
the fact that anyone can still ask "russia said..." as if it is a legitimate line of consideration is insane, if you at this point in history dont think everything russia says is more than likely a lie then you are probably just russian 🤷♂
You don't think Ukraine lies too?
@@dalecrocker3213 Ukraine doesn't commit mass war crimes and lie about them, no.
@@andrew6978 oh boy... 🤣
Like the missile that struck Poland, Ghost of Kyiv ,the incident of snake island? there is one thing not agreeing with what Russia invasion but the other like just accept everything from Ukraine as fact ......
@@andrew6978 Well Australia most decorated soldier did .. and our government try to cover it up. stop being blinded ...
Take out the kerch bridge now ASAP
They won’t do that. They want Russian forces to have a path to retreat when they attack Ukraine. That’s far better than fighting a trapped force.
You mean London bridge
@@Saffsa you muppet 😂
The Ukrainians want to leave a route of retreat for the Pootinistas. If they get bottled up in Crimea with no way out, they just might, just barely might have to fight. Better to let the cowards run out the door, THEN shut it behind them.
@@Saffsa I've seen the failing piers of the Kerch bridge.... it won't take much to have it fall into the drink on its own.
I saw a comment on KLW World News that this lake is half the size of Lake Mead and would cover the state of Missouri with a foot of water. 200,000 to 700,000 below the dam and 80 settlements. A massive loss of life is possible. God help them.
Ukraine is evacuating civilians on the territory it controls, unlike last time this happened in August 1941, when Russia let thousands of Ukrainian civilians (and its own soldiers) die. Death toll maybe 6 figures that time.
Putin signed his own death warrant this time. I would expect that airstrikes have already started.
most of the population have already left the area because of the war some are still left but most left months ago
This is ridiculous propaganda.
The dam is destroyed to create a barrier that Ukrainian troops struggle to cross to conduct their offensive.
@@pynn1000 in 1941 russians have blown the Dnipro-G.E.S. dam which is significantly upstream, and they killed approx 150 000 ukranians with that.
(this dam they also destroyed, but it is not nearly as deadly)
This is why fighting Russia is worth every single penny
Yep, Lindsey Graham was spot on
@@knightsnight5929 Was lady G crying again?
That's the reason the West need to be erased
european peoples have no intention to serve anglosaxons/soroses/rotschilds as suicide bombers or cannon fodder against Russian Federation. if YOU wish to drop dead for zelenski and his gang of criminals be my guest.
@@LSpower7.0 NGOs are working overtime to try sell this as a Russian self-harming 😆
The one thing that no-one seems to notice is that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is upstream of the dam, and depends upon the dam for cooling. Without expert knowledge of the plants systems, this could lead to a nuclear melt-down and irradiate the entire area. Not good news for Ukraine.
i was wondering about that and how will they ensure sufficient cooling water.
More likely it would just lead to having to shut it all down and cut off even more electricity to Ukraine .... They have reserve cooling for now but once they can no longer draw new water they'll be forced to begin the process of shutting it all down and dropping the rods into cooling pools after fission has stopped. That can be done in just a couple of days. What Russia is doing here is cutting off two major sources of electricity to Ukraine as well as the major source of irrigation water for Ukrainian fields keeping them out of production for years
Indeed people noticed it right away and predicted the difficulty Zaporizhya will soon have. It was in the first newspaper report that I read.
There is adequate water in a separate pond, still intact, but clearly the danger level is increased.
@@aquaticaustralia Basically, the facility has been shut down and needs "minimal" cooling.. They can probably pump enough water into the big pool beside the power station to keep it safe..
It'll just be offline until the water level of the Dnieper reservoir gets back to the required depth (and flow). It is a major long term economic hit on Ukraine
Blowing up the dam will have serious consequences. Think Ruzzia just made a big,big mistake for which they are going to pay dearly. I think this is a tipping point.
This was my first thought as well. Lets hope the response is firm.
Why would Russia blow up a dam they occupy, feeds majority of Crimea, and feeds cooling water to the nuclear plant which they also occupy 🤔
This very thought adds to the suspicion that the Russians didn't do it
@@gedgoodenough291 To destroy what they are unlikely to keep, cause devastation to Ukraine, and leave behind ‘sour grapes’ they decide they did not need.
As I've said before Russia doesn't need any inspiration from the Ukrainian side to escalate things, they will do that by themselves. We need desperately to give Ukraine what they need without any restrictions on our part. Let them go for the Kremlin! Putin clearly can't handle ruling the country!
Time for NATO to step up.
Indeed. The West waged useless wars the past 30 years...and they now hope someone else will fight the war that needs to be fought with their B-stock of supplies.
It was probably time when the mass graves and child abductions started appearing, but here we are
They are
@@XxBloggs where? They are still in their barracks.
Ain't no way NATO will get more invoved they enjoy their good life too much.
Putler is desperate and SICK
Not as sick as Biden.
He's more like Stalin. Cunning as an outhouse rat
@@Noel-ji8nmThis is a typical russian response to distract people from the topic. They like to change the nature of a conversation or comment and get others arguing amongst themselves. Russians really are the main destructive force on earth, they want to disrupt and disorganize the rest of us. They are responsible for so much chaos around the globe with their agents.
At least he doesn’t fall over when someone puts imaginary stairs in front of him.
@@sk70hh not too bright are you? think harder.
Give Ukraine the tools to destroy the Kerch bridge!
ATACMs now.
Cool then the Nukes start flying 😂😂
The British will do that, again.
Stormshadows. Yet they prefer to leave escape routes for people rather than destroy
@@williamshaneblyth NGOs are working overtime to try sell this as Russian self-harming 😆
It's going to cut the water off to Crimea as well
If so, Russia has made it very clear it does not care for the lives of its supposedly Russian citizens. If the people of Crimea suffer as a result of Russian strategy, it is of no concern to the Kremlin
I guess they think they won't control it soon.
No it won't. That canal was out of commission for years anyway. Blocked by Ukraine.
To cut water off from Crimea must be a sever misstakes by the russians. That will speed up the evacuation of Crimea.
They know they have lost Crimea. It's all over but for the screaming evacuation.
why is the guy with the headphones smiling for?
Having fun and smiling while thousand of civilians are fleeing this Russian made catastrophy is telling a lot about the morality of this "journalist".
The beginning of the end to Russia as we know it.
The other way aroung Mac !
😂😂😂😂
@@krasav ok little babuska
* Ukra- sorry.... * uKRAINE * 🤣
OR....Russia upgrades its operation to war.
And you don't want to witness THAT.
Time for the USA to take off the gloves and send the F16s
B52s more like
😂😂usa without guts😂😂
Ooooo 😂😂 the F 16s 😂😂 ffs Wakey Wakey Woke Flakey
ATACMS, knock out ruzzian ships in Sevastopol and Kerch bridge.
Unfortunately, f16 is outdated tech
Why did you keep cutting to Beardy apparently smirking and puling faces? Looked like an attempt to undermine the interviewee, Probably unintentional, but unfortunate, distracting and irritating.
and funny :) edit: he is on the phone, isn't he?
Yes, I found that very disturbing!
Yes very strange. Looks more habit than intentional but we did not need to see his face at all really. Bet his mom loves him though.
Any person that considers the Russians response of accusing Ukraine in blowing up this dam, should answer this: Would this damage had happened, if Russia didn't invade Ukraine?
No.
End of discussion.
Your question says more about your level of intellect and the research you have done, but in your defence most of the comments here are from people as ignorant as you. Possibly some even dumber.
Excellent summary. Thanks. About 300 words shorter than my short summary of the same thing.
Lol ahahhhaha your point is so bad that i even laught
Great point.
@@gugas_19 that's because you're insensitive Barbarian. A brute and a Savage. But you will get yours one day.
Time to take out a certain bridge, permanently.
At this point NATO should just level the Russian military and all Putin supporters and call it a day.
Time for NATO to reconsider its role as a side-liner.
Level Russian army? You are a joke.
NATO has nothing left. Putin laughing at your stupidity.
He *will* let the nukes fly then though. Need to be shrewder... keep doing what we're doing, embarrass him back home and wait for the inevitable regime change.
Ah if only NATO would get themselves knee deep in Ukrainian soil, come out to play with Russia and "call it a day"............why the hesitancy? I mean Russia is so weak and easy pickings for the mighty NATO, why the slow approach??????🤔🤔🤔
Do we expect anything else from Russia?
Exactly. Desperate and scared
Nope terrorists doing terrorist stuff, ISIS with nukes.
Oh yes...in the next 30 to 40 years we, the non-Western world, hope to see Russia and China at the throne, with all the 800 NATO military bases around the world destroyed or nuked 😃😃
That's what WE expect. Donno abouchu.
Haven’t seen evidence it was Russia. There is more flooding in the Russian controlled areas. Your jump to conclusions elicits suspicion with any discerning observer.
Nuke
The same happened with the Zaporozhye Dam in 1941. Stalin had it destroyed to slow down the German invasion. But instead, it killed tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians.
To include Russian soldiers, but Stalin, like Putin didn't care about human life, not even his own soldiers!
"They were all kulaks and partisans."
- Joe Stalin, probably
Didn't we do the same in ww2 ?
Ukraine is killing liberated people!
Bandera Nazis!
@@canugizabit2810 yes england tried a couple of times
"If I can't have her, nobody can!"
Stalin ordered the dam to be destroyed during WW2 and as a result of the dams destruction 100,000 people downstream died, including thousands of Red Army soldiers who were crossing the river ( no one told them the dam was going to be blown up).
So RuZZia has form.
No surprise there, inhuman russian state does not even care about there own Citizens
@@andrew6978 Blowing up a dam just shows how desperate Ukraine has become.
@@Noel-ji8nm Blaming Ukraine shows how desperate the russian trolls have become.
@@Noel-ji8nm Endless ruzzian lies.
Why would UKR destroy the dam - its their land and critical to civilian population basic life. Russia is the destroyer as we have seen so many times in this god-forsaken war. Godspeed UKR.
Why would Russia destroy their own pipeline? Got a feeling someones behind the scenes fanning the flames.
They wouldn't. The trolls claiming that Ukraine are responsible can't give a single reason why that benefits Ukraine.
it is not a question of "why", it is "HOW!"
ukraine has no access to the dam.
@@superhumantrueman Play the victim to justify foreign intervention. This isn't as clean-cut as people want it to be, war never is.
@@MnastycanbeniceM They don't need to "play the victim", we already know they are the victim of Russian aggression and genocide. This is absolutely clean cut, this is russia committing another war crime to try and stall the Ukrainian counter offensive.
Another new low... Time to chase that bear all the way to Vladivostok. Slava Ukraini! 🇨🇦🇺🇦
Vladivostok don't want them either...it's not Russia either.
You mean another new HIGH....as Johnny Cash put it "How high is the water mama...!!
@@thehugoalexander Yes, I have a feeling that sooner than later, Vladivostok will be part of China once again.
It's called Haishenwai... and maybe the Chinese will meet them at halfway.
I heard it’s Ukraine that blew the dam.
It's international terrorism!
Literally. The 460 tons of oil, apart from everything else, will be circulating on top of the Black Sea, affecting not only Ukraine but Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Georgia.
Ukraine did the same thing to Donbass for a decade you ignorant hypocrite!
They blocked water supply to Crimea as well
Yes. NATO continued committing international terrorism as the Dom was hit by the NATO shells. What is anyone going to do to NATO terrorist organisations?
Yeah, same as nordstream! They did it. You know who 😉
what about nord steam ??
It's what War Criminals do... until they are removed.
The war criminal is the dictator Zelensky.
@@michaeloconnor9465 you are Russian and you use western name. Coward.
@@michaeloconnor9465 👈 Another notZ bot to be added to “the list”...
American presidents seem to see out their terms in office.
@@MikeOxlong- Trouble is you people don't like the truth. Broaden your news catch on the war, explore different reports instead of relying on a single channel, the mainstream media have one narrative that comes out of Washington and Downing St. Did you know when Boris went to the Ukraine it was to block peace talks on behalf of Washington. This is a US and NATO proxy war using the Ukraine to attack Russia.
How can anyone in good conscience hold back the means by which Ukraine must win?
Well, they are doing exactly that.
They're either cowards, morons or terrible people. Sometimes all three.
Because they are and have been for a long time, the aggressors.
@@hano552 They are? Since when?
@@MrSlavaoat Ukraine did this and is nothing without the help and donations from the E.U.and the U.S, Ukraine is just a poor crooked country.
Russia gains no military advantage by blowing up the dam it makes no sense whatsoever this is purely Ukrainian, western propaganda.
Russia must be made to pay reparations to Ukraine once Ukraine has won this war.
There is such a list put together in the Hague. Every destruction by Russia is recorded and tallied up. The more Russia destroys, the higher the war damages will be.
No need to wait that long. Remember, a lot of oligarch wealth and Russian Central Bank foreign reserves were banked overseas in accounts that have been frozen.
we should just turn moscow into a glass crater.
@@wiryantirta Who's we.
@@wiryantirta Personally I want to see the whole Russian Black Sea fleet destroyed, including the submarines. I would also give Ukraine missiles so that they can destroy the Russian strategic bombers. They are basically irreplaceable.
Russia is losing the war on the battlefield - it is what they always do when they are losing, they destroy everything, all infrastructure, and they blew the Nova Kakhovka dam, committing yet another war crime! Victory to Ukraine!🇺🇦🔱Slava Ukrajina!🇺🇦🔱
You are so right and America never destroyed any country.
@@jollcheist1443 Afghanistan trained, funded and housed the men responsible for the 1993 world trade center bombing, the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, the 2000 attack on the USS Cole and 9/11. In Iraq we deposed a vile dictator who used chemical weapons on his own people, and were welcomed by the Iraqis as liberators. In Syria we were fighting ISIS who beheaded our aid workers, set fire to pilots in cages and bombed and stabbed western children. We were also trying to prevent Putin and Assad from barrel bombing Syrians and unleashing chemical weapons. As it was, by Trump cutting and running from both Syria and Afghanistan, they've now fallen into Putin's orbit of influence. His warm water port in Syria allows him - in theory - to rival the US navy. When are we going to get over Iraq and wake up to this Kremlin trope that there is somehow some sort of moral equivalence? It's a nonsense pumped out by Lavrov & co to create permanent inertia and introspection in the west.
Russia are definitely not losing this war. The west are desperate. Ukrainian forces have damaged this dam not Russia
@@paddington1670 911 was an inside job, isis was created by Obama, sadam was a business partner of bush senior until they can no longer control sadam, but sadam never ban religion,never imprisoned the opposition,never shut down television,has no 32 billion dollars in the Cayman Island and never bombarded his own people, what can you see about clown hitzlenkky?
You really believe that do you?
Desperate act on Russia's part. It's similar to a Scorched Earth Policy whereas the invaders retreat because they know they gonna Loose...I believe this flooding will affect the mostly Russian controlled Kerson region.
Wrong this was Ukrainian
@@Grant80 it's not in Ukraine's best interest to destroy the dam as they could have used it to cross the lines amongst other factors. It was a desperate Russian tactic to slow down Ukraine...
@@Grant80 Sorry Tovarisch, the satellite photos show the dam was BLOWN UP, not hit by artillery!
Lose*
I mean you're right it's to stop the advancement but not of the ukraininans. There's russian trenches and forces downstream of the dam that will be flooded out, also as someone who knows someone that's gone to ukr it's some serious copium to think they're actually pushing back in any meaningful way at the moment.
Everybody with half a brain was telling Merkel that no matter how many bananas the chimpanzee offers you do not let him have the handgrenade. The prolem was there were too many bananas
He was probably laughing at Saks claims of shooting down all those Russian missiles, when they can't even protect the Dam.
Thankfully Comrade Merkel is gone for good, she can now enjoy her retirement in St. Petersburg!
You know, I was shocked of her interview: "I knew Putin wants to destroy the EU". Yeah, and that's why she made Germany dependant on russian gas, let the German army become a joke although having some of the best companies in the world that are able to produce one of the best army equipment for any other country but not for Germany.
@@khiem1939 I still have hopes of a nice little retirement cell for her in a prison block in the Hague. Next door to putin would be nice for them both?
@@Lakin3 sur was mole from East Germany
This requires a sharp international response against Russia.
As sharp as a response the world did against USA and the UK when they did similar....that is nothing
@@GabrielA-ug1vpwhen did we blow up dams?
@@gabrielesimionato1210 We should probably just do what we did when US forces carried out an airstrike on Kunduz hospital in Afghanistan in October 2015, burning people to death in their intensive care beds and machine-gunning anyone who was capable of fleeing the building.
We let them investigate themselves and decide that it totally wasn't a war crime.
Yes they really need to go now, they are the lowest of the low
@@gabrielesimionato1210 you have done far worse things
Why are Times Radio interviews so sloppily presented?
They are for LISTENING to. It isn’t TV. It is a format that existed long before podcasts. This is current affairs rather than TV news - a more leisurely affair.
Audio interviews like this are live, not edited soundbites, not for one-minute news segments.
The interviewers do not have a set questions that they plough through no matter what the response. People are listening while they do other things, and there’s time for conversation and reflection. You heard her pick up on his remarks and ask him more on that. Did you never notice this almost never happens on news shows or in TV interviews?
Her question might seem dumb to you, but her job is to ask the questions that the general public might ask. Many people will have no idea how big a dam, or how big a body of water this is, or exactly
yeah what he said, it's radio format, if you were listening to this in the car driving home from work you wouldnt be saying diddly f all about the quality.
This isn't a surprise to anyone.
True, the way the Soviet Union and Russia has always been!
Russia did the exact same thing back in August 1941 with the Dnipro dam!
It caused 20‘000-100‘000 Ukrainian cassualties and they did it to flood the are towards Crimea to stop the Germans from advancing south.
They did it again to stop Ukrainian troops from advancing towards Crimea, as simple as that.
In 1941 when Stalin blew that dam he killed thousands of Russian soldiers, seems he didn't care, just like the Dictator Vlad Putin doesn't care!
Stalin was from Georgia. He was not Russian, and at the time, it was SSSR. This time Ukrainian Nazis blew up the dam with NATO weapons to stop the water supply to Crimea. The dam was part of the Russian territory, and the people that had to be evacuated were elderly Russians and children. The evidence is in the pudding. Shame on all of you who support Ukrainian Nazis' brutal murders of innocent Russian civilians and children for over 8 years. The truth doesn't need lying Western propagandist media.
Ukraine should take out the Crimean bridge with storm shadow missiles in retaliation Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
It wouldn't be in retaliation. The bridge is and always has been a legitimate target. The problem has been hitting it with enough force in the right place to do enough damage. Storm Shadow may not have the range and warhead to do hit the necessary spots nor do the necessary damage.. BUT, maybe the Germans will change their mind about their heavy cruise missile (Taurus KEPD 350 )
What the heck is that bearded reporter doing with a pen in his mouth during an interview? Is he a former BBC employee?
Seems to be smirking all the way through as well
Agreed, James. Times Radio really needs to hire a new video switcher. The idiot is probably texting while pushing the wrong camera buttons. This is a common occurrence on this station, that otherwise displays pretty good reporting.
Who benefits from flooding Ukrainian troops who took over islands below the dam? Russia
Who benefits from cutting off 100's of megawatts of electricity generated at this dam for Ukraine? Russia
Who benefits the most by cutting off irrigation to Ukrainian fields so they can no longer grow food? Russia
Who benefits the most if they have to shut down the nuclear power plant that draws water from the reservoir and cutting even yet 100's of megawatts more electricity off in Ukraine? Russia
Add to that the flooding will almost totally block any attempts by military forces to cross the swamped out regions and acting as area denial. Also only Russia benefits.
1000's of megawatts. The output of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is 5700 MW.
A nuclear plant can’t be shut down, not really. It has to keep on being cooled.
I understand that breaking the damn will make water supply to the russian Crimea more difficult, so I wouldn't call this a solely russian interest.
@@YouBrickChannel Cutting off two major sources of electricity to Ukraine benefits Russia and ONLY Russia
Russia is in panic.
no. terror and scorched earth is their normal default behaviour
Russia is in full control unlike ukraine 😂😂
@@RomanVideos1 Shebekino :)
I might have drawn the wrong conclusion here. Most of the respected analysts and commentators are pointing to Russia's abject stupidity and complete immorality as more likely explanations of the dam blast. Based of past form , these are likely explanations but there are growing and clear signs disarray/panic in Russia.
Everybody is shouting and complaining about these war crimes, and no one is prepared to do anything to stop this Russian criminal acts!
Who would you want to investigate? The UN? Well, good news, they have been since last year.
Paul you are correct, we are waiting for you to stop them.... Plese stop them Sir...you can do it!
We should be sending troops like we promised at Budapest memorandum
Ukraine winning will go a long way in stopping it.
@@teddypicker8799 But they are sending troops....and weapons etc etc. Trouble is it's not making any difference because they aren't fighting goat herders.
Really enjoyed watching the random dude staring at his phone.
The destruction of the Dam is a war crime. Article 56 of Geneva Convention. Protection of works and installations containing dangerous forces, which includes Dams and Nuclear power stations.
UKRAINE 🇺🇦 should target Crimea Bridge and make Putin scattered in his special operation and war crimes
The UN need to step in now and help with the rescue efforts so that Ukraine can continue their offensive.
Great idea but Russia is on the security Council. The UN will probably not do anything about it because of that. It looks like you can just count on Putin's regime to try to destroy anyting that's decent. He is really a hateful man deep down inside.
The offensive is a bad idea. Maybe un should be asking the US to stop funding their proxy war
@@innocentiuslacrim2290 I know right 🤔
@@donaldmackerer9032 yes. Putin and the Kremlin are utter dishonorable savages. It needs to be dissolved somehow. Russia needs new leadership, preferably humans with compassion and a sense of honour.
@@innocentiuslacrim2290 UN = communist International
What happens in Ukraine can happen in Russia as well😊. To cause such unimaginable wicket cruelty can only come from sub humans
Sub human really! Just as the former Ukrainian president called ethnic Russians and ultra Nationalist far right groups like the notorious Azov Battalion!
Like Murdering 14000 civilians you mean or burning down a Russian Orthodox Church in Odessa with children inside . Or are u in Denial 😂😂
@@Saffsa bot..
War is war baby!You gotta do what you gotta do ...and that ain't all nuclear plants are next on the list
@@yurko95 mentioning "russian Orthodox" curch is beyond ironic, given that they are NOT orthodox by the Constantinopol's standard :)
Are the Russian forces preparing to retreat, with a scorched earth policy in place?
No. They’re trying to limit where Ukraine can conduct an offensive.
Possibly. I think more likely it was to slow troop movements in Kherson. And to terrorise civilians.
Yes, it's their standard operating procedure in every war since the 15th century.
The Crimean Canal will go dry and I don't think they'd do that if they were planning on holding Crimea. Russia's plan has always been to regain control of it's borders. To do that they need to occupy the Bessarabian Gap and the Polish Gap, which they can't hope to do. The only other way is to create a depopulated uninhabitable de-industrialized border zone. With the nuclear plant at risk of meltdown, scorched earth seems like a good way to describe it.
The Russian forces will only retreat when they're ready to drop the big one on Ukraine ...for the time being I hear that the west has offered to teach the ukrinian soldiers how to swim !! ha ha
Dam full at time too .
Over-full, in fact. First they let it get to its lowest ever level, then they shut most of the gates and it zoomed up to its highest.
This tells me that the Russians have given up hope of holding, or ever returning to this area.
Worst single war crime of the war
I still think preventing civilians from leaving Mariupol and then bombing 90% of all its buildings flat, with the populace in the cellars, is still up there as the crime of the war. But I guess we’ll have to wait and see how many mass graves this produces.
plenty of mass graves from genocidal massacres. Poland literally has a humanitarian crisis on their hands for the last year. SO MANY Ukrainian women and girls were graped by russian invaders, have now landed in Poland as refugees while Poland is antiabortion, so there are womens' help organization groups set up to help Ukrainian women victims of that get the help they need.
Just sickening what the russian invaders are doing to Ukrainians. We need to do more to help them, enough is enough.
When you have to rate war crimes things are getting out of control. Russia must be destroyed and finished, oddy I think the Chinese will do it.
The constant bombing of civilians in the Donbas from 2014 until present is the greatest war crime. 10,000 dead by the time of the invasion.
We have to wait and see how many civilians die because of this act before we can compare it to other crimes.
How long it is likely to take before water levels drop to below critical levels for the cooling of the Enerhodar nuclear reactors?
Depending on the level of damage, soon - the normal water supply will fail within the day more than likely. I'm not at all familiar with the plant, but normally a nuclear plant site will have extensive water storage pools or tanks, so it's not like things will immediately spiral into an emergency. They also have emergency diesel powered pumps that can still source water from the river after drainage.
I would also like to think they have already begun safe shutdown procedures if they fear losing coolant flow.
Separate pond still intact, but danger obviously increased.
The plant has been switched off for a year now so it may not be as serious as you think (on that score). The fuel rods will have cooled a lot already.
@@AlanWarrenBelfastArchitect That's good to know. Thanks!
@@CountScarlioni The power station was shut down months ago. The have been using the backup diesel generators to keep the pumps working to ensure coolant flow for months...
The dam is UPSTREAM, why is the media saying it’s downstream
Can you fire the male who is smiling throughout this interview? Or at least don't show him?
Talk about being disrespectful........
Maybe Ukraine should take out the Kerch Bridge, then blowing up the dam will become a headache for Russia as that would then totally isolate the Crimean Peninsula and the flooding may also cut off the land bridge. 😂😂😂
It will happen.
This river isn’t connected to the Crimea land bridge so no effect, the canal that supplies fresh water to Crimea was connected to this dam therefore the supply of fresh water to Crimea is cut off, likely Russia will evacuate civilians from Crimea as a result, probably part of their strategy
@@ytzpilot If the Kerch Bridge is down, I don't see how they could manage that evacuation. If they start the evacuation of the civilian population while the bridge still stands, that will make it impossible for Ukraine to hit the bridge while the evacuations are ongoing.
@@ytzpilot OR, it is an admission that they can't hold Crimea (or the rest of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Oblast) and they are going scorched earth (If we can't have it, we will make it worthless for you).
Meanwhile.. The loss of teh Dnipro as a transport route (shipping on the river) will have significant economic consequences for Ukraine for years..
@@Katoshi_Takagumi more than likely. No reason to harm unarmed civilian non-combatants. That would be considered rather cold and brutal in the eyes of the rest of the world. And it would cause the relatives of the victims to hate you more which could come back to haunt you in the future.
Why is the male interviewer from Times Radio appear to be laughing to himself while the Ukrainian representative is answering the female questions. Chewing a pen does not cover this apparent act of disrespect. Just saying. Glory to Ukraine and their Heroes.
It's a thing with whoever is operating the camera and this guy , I've seen it countless times when he's chewing on a pen and they put him on camera, either someone doesn't like him much or they think it's funny , I do agree it's very disrespectful to the fellow being interviewed.
It is indeed a bizarre thing this show frequently does. They'll cut to radio hosts who aren't even speaking for no reason. I wonder if perhaps it's automated to switch to the radio hosts if it hears anything on their microphones at all, and it's picking up little things like breathing near the microphone or chewing on a pen.
I disagree. The interviewee was saying "everytime the Russians open their mouths they are lying" and I think he was chuckling at that remark.
Laughing at the propaganda?
@@AlexP-jz9sg Lauging at the obviousness of the Ruzzzun lies.
So... will South Africa finally agree to arrest Putin after this?
Why. This war crime was committed by Zelensky nazis with NATO weapons. The time has come to arrest NATO war criminals who supplied weapons to the nazis.
Nope.The country that suffered from apartheid doesn't care about criminal dictators that much
They must, breaching a dam is a war crime. If they don't they should be sanctioned.
We have a saying in the UK “you might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb”. Russian officials have committed thousands of war crimes in Ukraine, and this is just a continuance of these crimes.
Forgotten about what the British army has done to Native Americans? Africa? Australia....the list is too long and nauseating..in comparison to what Russia did.
What about UK's war crime? There is a Looooong Count of those crimes....
war crimes are an organic part of the russian culture
@@Lily-gg5ol long time ago and doesn’t make what Russia are doing ok. Also Britain didn’t do anything to native Americans. The United States did Britain actually reserved everything west of the Appalachian mountains as Indian land and banned any expansion.
@@Lily-gg5ol Well actually, when looking back at past incidents. Russia and its Empire was no different!
Russia is doing everything like playing toys but the world is silent.
I’m waiting for Ukraine to take out the Crimean bridge 👍😁
Not only has this caused massive damage to the riparian areas downstream, threatened the safety of the largest nuclear power station in Europe and likely to cause hundreds of deaths, the Russians have also disconnected Crimea from its main water supply. A massive own goal.
True, but Russia is NOT concerned with a Crimean water supply since they NOW don't plan on staying in the Crimea!
So why would Russia hit a own goal in its own turf
You have to be pretty dumb to imagine Russia would do that.
@@randomracki9453 because Russia cares not one jot about human life, unless it directly affects the ruling kleptocracy.
if the destruction is comparable to a nuclear attack then it should be treated as such!
I understand the feeling but let's not get carried away.
In case you didn't know, if it came to nuclear war Russia has ALL the advantages you can think of!!
Hypersonic missiles, S400,S500..... Know what's up before you say sometthing THAT radical:)
@@donaldmackerer9032 russia is counting on voices like yours.
Its about time Europe drops some nukes on Russia!
Slava USA!
So you agree Russians should nuc all the NATO centres that have supplied the weapons to Zelensky Nazis to blow up the dam?
Ukraine now has to devote man power and resources to rescuing its citizens from the flood. Ukraine has to save its people first this is a counter to the offensive
Like they did with Bakhmut ? Lol or like they have been doing when shelling civilian infrastructure in Donetsk
Yep. That. However, the land will dry in a month, Ukraine has scorching summers down there, plus Crimea... Russia will abandon Crimea, and cannot hold it without drinking water and irrigation. yes, Crimea has 2 dams of stored water, but I think some rockets take care of it in the near future.
Gloves are off, everyone hoped Russia won't do this, but they did. By flooding, Russia can move their troops to defend narrower lines and strengthen them there. It will be a tough month for Ukraine and its offensive. However, Russia is spent at this point massively and the insurgency will embolden others within Russia proper.
@@mkmcat so you just ignore the Ukrainian citizens who have a rampaging flood threatening them?
This is a russian territory.
@@xsh7651 RuSSians shelled civilians in donetsk as a false flag operation , they killed the alley of angels children
Give Ukraine more arms, Russia still hasn't learned.
Yeh so the corrupt Ukrainian thugs can sell them to bikies all over Europe.
True, tell me when the Kremlin is burning, that would be a great start!
Just send them to Mexico and cut out the middle man.
This is what kremlin meant by their unused "potential"
According to operator Starsky : The partisans report that they have collected details on those responsible for the disaster in Kakhovka. According to the Crimean Tatar guerrilla movement ATESH, the Kakhovka dam was destroyed by the 1st battalion of the 205th russian motorized brigade.
Just a few little green men in Russia 😂
And more will want to join after this.
Lets face it. An undefended Dam is probably the only target Putins Military Rabble could hit. It would need to be much larger than a Barn Door.
russians mined the dam 8 months ago
"How quickly can it be repaired?" ^^ About 6 months after the war ends i think. There won't be many big construction jobs going on while bombs are flying
It takes years to build dams, you cant just prefab in 10 other yards and bring it all together at the last moment.
@@paddington1670 normally yes, in a crisis things can work differently
Be strong Ukraine 🇺🇦
Hope it will be weak as always
CORRUPTION!!!!
@@NicoleInga my G
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Don’t act like the "allies" didn’t do any war crimes
What are the disadvantages for the Russian side. 1. The coastline is lower on the Russian side of the Dnieper, which means that there will be more water there and water can flood the positions of Russian troops and minefields, if any. This can help the Ukrainians to carry out a landing operation there. 2. The Crimean Canal will dry up and the Crimea will be left without water. 3. The water level in the Kakhovka reservoir will drop and this may help the Ukrainians to carry out a landing operation there
3. Not really it is easier to cross if there is water in it, who knows how the banks will look like now
@@stefanth8596 Perhaps you are right, it will be easier for Ukrainians to cross the water, since the time for which this is done will be less, but it will probably be more difficult to gain a foothold on the river bank.
That's why they have been digging so many trenches it's for drainage.
Disadvantage for the Ukrainians.
the massive flooding is going to be a serious resource hog as they conduct rescue operations to rescue anyone needing rescuing (meanwhile, we know that the Russians don't care about their own people being caught in the flooding.)
Ukraine has a major counteroffensive planned. This could delay that....
Sorry Sergey, but Putin KNOWS he cannot keep the Crimea, therefore he wants to do as much damage to the Ukraine as possible before his forces FLEE the Ukraine! Remember, this is "The Russian Way"! My dearly departed Grandfather, who immigrated to the USA in the 1880s from Eastern Europe, told me all I NEEDED to KNOW about Russians during our daily walks during WWII !
Why does one presenter find this whole thing funny...? 🤔
How long will it take to get repaired? From the video, the structural integrity of this damn foundation is more than likely completely gone. It more than likely will need to be totally demolished then rebuilt. If there is a suitable upstream or downstream location to replace and rebuild you can do both simultaneously but the dam construction takes years under normal peace time circumstances.
It will take at least just as long as it took the damn to be built initially.
The major problem now is how are you going to cool the largest nuclear powerplant in Eastern Europe? That is the biggest threat right now. Another Chernobyl nuclear meltdown is very possible in the next few days..
Why is the man behind the times radio mike appearing to smirk at this catastrophic news
Absolutely well said!!!
The dam would not have breach would not have happened if there had not been an invasion.
If russia had not invaded they could not be blamed, no matter who did it, or how it happend.
You already know who did it huh;)
if germany won ww2, russia would not have invaded ukraine. very helpful argumentation..
@@sljsmit
He's saying if Russia didn't invade this wouldn't be happening
@@dude9127 You know that those are not the same whatsoever. Invading a country is nothing passive like winning a war. That was an active decision and not just causal.
War would not happen if the US and NATO did not breach the agreement with Russia. Go and listen to JF Kennedy.
Yes - just like Britain destroyed Dresden in March 1945 - the target was just refugees at the train stations - they Russians were already right out side the City - there was no reason to conduct a Fire Storm Raid on Dresden - 55,000 civilians were killed!
The Crimean water canal is fed from the Kakhovka Reservoir, which has just been breached. A number of possibilities arise.
1) Since Ukraine's President Zelensky has just called an emergency meeting, the calling of that meeting, in itself, may be a sign that Ukraine was not responsible. Had they been, any planning and preparation for the breaching of the Kakhovka Dam would already have been completed and all the machinations would be in play. There would also need to have been some strategic purpose to the breaching of the dam.
2) There is the possibility that the Russians breached the dam in preparation for an imminent departure from Crimea. The dam or reservoir provides water to the Crimean peninsula via the North Crimean Canal fed from just upstream of the Kakhovka Reservoir. Consequently, the Russians would otherwise seem to be causing themselves issues with regard to water supply in Crimea, if they intended remaining on the peninsula.
The breaching of the dam would provide time for clearing of Russian residents, administrative and military personnel from the peninsula. The waterlogged ground would slow any following Ukrainian military forces, and impede their progress. Since there are few remaining Russian troops on the northern side of the Dneiper River, few would be disadvantaged by the breaching of the dam {if the Russians would have been concerned about them anyway.}
I cannot think of any other reasons for the breaching of the Kakhovka Reservoir, though there may obviously be others.
Russia is not leaving Crimea.
You forgot 3. Ukraine breached the dam to try to get NATO, the US or another country involved in this war. Zelensky has been desperately trying hard to get NATO or another country in the war and the talk from the guy in the video smacks of the same sort of rhetoric when Ukraine fired missiles into Poland
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God Grace i born India . Iam very happy. Because west country all are memory loss and they trigger the Ukrainian people. Russia will win the war. Already Ukraine is contracted by black rock. Ukranian people gone. Go and search black rock. Mental and comedy zelensky
The way this guy talks about russians makes me feel very uncomfortable. He is full of hate.
What else needs to happen until we fully commit to fighting these orcs back to their nasty Mordor?
I will never understand people who stand with such an evil person like Putin. They must have no empathy whatever. I feel very sorry for all of Putin's victims whoever they are.
Slava Ukrainii. 🇺🇦
If you did some research, you would understand that the world is run by evil people, and that the war in Ukraine is not what the mainstream media is telling us.
You will be surprised when you will know Zelensky and Nato started it and not Putin.
Putin already warned Nato and Ukraine to stop building NATO base in Ukraine ( btw not a Nato member).
They keep doing it, why?
Because Zelensky, NATO and U.S. wanted the war.
I feel bad for the millions people that keep ignoring this and straight blame Russia when in fact, there are evidence online aswell ( you can check video of whats going on 6 years ago)
They support him because there is something in it for them... Look at any dictator through history. They can't do it on their own. They need supporters.
Putin wants more and it will never be enough
The sooner Nato and America take direct action against Russia the better .
Nato’s rules do not permit it to commit the military of 30-odd countries to a fight when none of them have been attacked.
NATO is a defensive organization only. It's a deterrent to russian aggression; russians cant attack a NATO member, that's the whole point of NATO.
You want to form a police force to police the russians? im A OKAY with that, but you cant use NATO to do it.
@@eh1702 WRONG! If the 6 nuclear reactors have a melt down, Russia's actions have ENDANGERED NATO and NATO can get INVOLVED!
The Ukrainian nazis used the NATO weapon to destroy the Dam, which is in Russian territory, to prevent water supply to Crimea. How evil is that. So you agree Russia should nuc all the NATO countries for deliberately destroying infrastructure to harm Russian civilians? All the elderly Russian civilians and children had to be evacuated due to NATO's atrocious action. How can you support that? How can you be so nasty?
@@eh1702 Then the rules need to change! It's pathetic the way such a powerful alliance hides behind a charter that is so outdated. The rules of war were broken a LONG time ago. NATO members sit around the big table and congratulate themselves on sending all kinds of weapons and providing training to UA soldiers. These are good things but they also assume a rational state of conflict exists. This is terrorism at its best. The rule book needs to burned for the good of the planet. This is not just between UA and RU. It's RU against the planet. NATO is too blind to see this. We have other issues to worry about bedsides some *sshole Russian who thinks he's God.
This situation has to be stopped, we are dealing with a mad man.
Senseless violence.
and that mad man is Zelensky
In general, I like times radio. But for the interviewer to ask when this could be repaired is laughable. Can’t she look at the photos and use a little common sense.? These aren’t Tinkers Toys and Legos. Most ridiculous question I’ve ever heard asked. This is a massive level of destruction and thousands of peoples lives affected if not lost.
fact is that that the right bank of the river is MUCH higher that the left bank (which is occupied by the Russians). So, maybe it is good from a tactical perspective. Strategically however it is really a complete disaster . . . that power plant will be effected and be put under strain even more to possibly/eventually melt down because of the lack of cooling water. So my guess is, because of the way this has been planned - and I don't know the exact strategic significance nor the implications for the power plant - that this one might be done by the Russians to divert the attention. If they did this they will be shooting themselves in the foot, big time (also because the water supply to Crimea will be halted). If this is somehow done by the Ukrainians (which is a possibility) my guess is that they considered to do this after obtaining the best possible (western) intelligence and having a real long term plan for the entire region.
For now I only think: the incredible stupidity . . . I mean, whoever did this - Russia or Ukraine have some explaining to do.
Actually there is two power plants, the one at the dam itself is now completely destroyed cutting off 100's of megawatts of electricity to Ukrainian cities and then the nuke plant further upstream ..... There is ZERO advantage here for Ukraine to blow this dam and cut off their two major Sources of electricity ... Doing that ONLY benefits Russia
The Russians are doing the murdering-boyfriend move: “If I can't have you, no-one will…” (stab stab stab).
Nuclear plant has adequate water storage in a separate pond. Clearly increases risk, however.
True, if they planned on keeping the Crimea, but alas, even the Dictator Vlad Putin knows that his failing Armed Forces cannot win against the military weapons provided by NATO and the EU, therefore he now wants to do as much damage to the Ukraine as he can before FLEEING!
I think you had a good post there buddy. Well done and yes I have to agree whoever decided to blow up the dam was not too bright and should do some explaining.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians may die because of this absolutely despicable act. It is time to show Putin what a NATO attack on the Kremlin looks like.
Kerch bridge, Nord Stream pipeline, Zaporizhia nuclear power plant shelling and now the Dnipro dam have one thing in common and it is not Russian!
The whole incident shows the panic in the Russian mindset. They know they’ve humiliated themselves, but their only option is to dig a deeper hole for themselves leading to more humiliation.
God Grace i born India . Iam very happy. Because west country all are memory loss and they trigger the Ukrainian people. Russia will win the war. Already Ukraine is contracted by black rock. Ukranian people gone. Go and search black rock. Mental and comedy zelensky
Wont the water fill the RU trenches? What about the landmines?
The Russians maybe pulling out and heading home. They are using a scorched earth policy as they retreat. As for landmines, not their problem anymore.
It will make the entire downstream area impassable. Something that only benefits the Russians as it eliminates a possible attack vector.
After this event, everything must be done to ensure that Russia is defeated in detail within Ukraine, including Crimea.
The Zelensky Nazis blow up the dam with NATO weapons so ignorant people like you can believe in another fantasy.
OK, so when are you going to fight then?
Can the guy from the Times stop smiling and chewing his pen when being told about the disaster?
I think Putin's having sphincter control issues today. The trollfarm noise indicates his prioriries.
I wonder how many warcrimes they can do before we do somthing about it... We (being nato) can't help but russians using mercenaries and belarus etc. Is fine ...
This should give Ukraine permission to hit towns in Russia. Get a few back. Fairs fair
Time to say goodbye to the kerch bridge completely now. with a couple of stormshadows, cutting off the Russian annexed Crimea peninsula off from Russia completely.
Can't understand why the guy with the beard was smiling throughout this interview. I was half expecting him to jump out of his chair and start singing and dancing.
What a super man and honest discussion. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
Glory to all ukrainian people ukraine 🇺🇦
Ukrainians on both sides, bozo
Lying and Russia are the same thing. If 'Russia' refers to the criminals prosecuting this war.