Russia Attacks Ukraine - 23 Feb 2022 **Media Thread** NO DISCUSSION #5

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Major dam collapses in southern Ukraine, flooding villages as Moscow and Kyiv trade blame

The wall of a major dam in a part of southern Ukraine that Moscow controls collapsed Tuesday after a reported explosion, sending water gushing downriver and prompting dire warnings of ecological disaster as both sides in the war ordered residents to evacuate.

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Russian and Ukrainian officials used terms like “ecological disaster” and “terrorist act” to describe the of water gushing through the broken dam and beginning to empty an upstream reservoir that is one of the world’s largest.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it “the largest man-made environmental disaster in Europe in decades.” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called it “another devastating consequence of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”

As homes, streets and businesses flooded, authorities expressed concerns about drinking water supplies and emergency crews evacuated thousands of people from Ukrainian and Russian-controlled areas.

In the downstream city of Kherson, angry residents cursed as they tried to preserve their pets and belongings. A woman who gave her name only as Tetyana waded through thigh-deep water to reach her flooded house and rescue her dogs. They were standing on any dry surface they could find but one pregnant dog was missing. “It’s a nightmare,” she kept repeating, declining to give her full name.

 

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JUN 7, 2023

Ukrainian dam breach: What is happening and what's at stake

The fallout from the breach of a river dam along a frontline of Russia’s war in Ukraine continues to wreak havoc on lives, livelihoods and the environment. Tuesday’s dramatic rupture of the Kakhovka dam that upheld Ukraine’s largest reservoir released a 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 of water in areas where tens of...

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram that hundreds of thousands of people were without normal access to drinking water.

The Russia-appointed mayor of the occupied city of Nova Kakhovka, Vladimir Leontyev, said seven people were missing. The city sits near the dam.

In Ukrainian-controlled areas on the western side, Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of Kherson Regional Military administration, said water levels were expected to rise by another meter (about 3 feet) over the next 20 hours.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday that at least 16,000 people have already lost their homes, and the U.N’s humanitarian aid coordinator said efforts are underway to provide water, money, and legal and emotional support to those affected.

Ukraine rushes drinking water to flooded areas as officials wrestle with impact of major dam breach

Ukrainian authorities are rushing supplies of drinking water to areas affected by flooding from a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine. They also are weighing where they might resettle people who relied on the breached reservoir on the Dnieper River, which forms part of the front line of the...

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The Kakhovka hydroelectric dam and reservoir, essential for supplying drinking water and irrigation to a huge area of southern Ukraine, lies in a part of the Kherson region occupied by Moscow’s forces for the past year. It is also critical for water supplies to the Crimean Peninsula, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.

Ukraine holds the western bank of the Dnieper, while Russia controls the eastern side, which is lower and more vulnerable to flooding.

Scenes of flooded communities, rescues — and even people reportedly waiting for help on their roofs in some Russian-occupied areas — called to mind a natural disaster, rather than one caused by war.

 

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Fleeing Floods, Ukrainians Make Perilous Boat Journeys To Safety​

Boat after boat of exhausted and stressed civilians arrived in the flooded streets of Kherson on June 7. Some of the people had made it here from Russian-occupied areas on the east bank of the Dnieper River.

Kherson Residents Evacuated As Floodwaters Rise​

Kherson residents could only watch as floodwaters engulfed their neighborhoods near the rising Dnieper River following the breach of the Nova Kakhovka dam. Ukrainian officials say tens of thousands of people live in at-risk areas.

Flooding ‘10 Times’ Worse In Russian-Occupied Areas After Dam Breach​

Flooding in the area under Russian occupation on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River is "10 times" worse than in Ukrainian-controlled areas, according to a Ukrainian official in the region. Dramatic footage shows civilians in the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky being helped by a Ukrainian drone.

 

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Thousands Of Fish Dead In Kakhovka Reservoir As Ukraine Launches 'Ecocide' Probe Over Dam​

Ukrainian officials estimate about 28,000 fish have died due to the draining of the Kakhovka reservoir following the breach of a hydroelectric dam. Ukraine's prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into what it's calling "ecocide" by Russia, which it accuses of destroying the dam.

Rooftop Rescue: Ukrainian Mom Recounts Flood Ordeal​

The video has been seen all around the world: a Ukrainian military drone drops bottled water to a family stranded by floodwaters after the breach of a dam in Russian-occupied territory. Now, the mom and her son have spoken to Current Time about how Russian forces left them to their fate.

Ukrainian Volunteers Brave Flooded Streets To Support Remaining Kherson Residents​

Some Kherson region residents refused to evacuate their flooded neighborhoods after a major dam broke on the Dnieper River. Local volunteers have been bringing humanitarian aid by boat and distributing it to those who remain.

 

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JUN 9, 2023

White House says Iran is helping Russia build a drone factory east of Moscow for the war in Ukraine

The White House says it has intelligence indicating Iran is providing Russia with materials to build a drone manufacturing plant east of Moscow as the Kremlin looks to lock in a steady supply of weaponry for its ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The new U.S. intelligence was unveiled by the White...

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National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said U.S. intelligence officials believe a plant in Russia’s Alabuga special economic zone could be operational early next year. The White House also released satellite imagery taken in April of the industrial location, several hundred miles east of Moscow, where it believes the plant “will probably be built.”

President Joe Biden’s administration publicly stated in December that it believed Tehran and Moscow were considering standing up a drone assembly line in Russia for the Ukraine war. The new intelligence suggests that the project, in the Yelabuga region of Tatarstan, has moved beyond conception.

JUN 10, 2023

Zelenskyy says 'counteroffensive, defensive actions' taking place in Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that counteroffensive and defensive actions were underway against Russian forces. Zelenskyy said Saturday that his top Ukrainian commanders were in a “positive” mindset as their troops engaged in intensified fighting on parts of the front line.

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The Ukrainian leader, at a Kyiv news conference alongside Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, responded to a question about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comment a day earlier that Ukraine’s counteroffensive had started — and Ukrainian forces were taking “significant losses.”

Zelenskyy said that “counteroffensive, defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine. I will not speak about which stage or phase they are in.”

Top Ukrainian authorities have stopped short of announcing a full-blown counteroffensive was underway, though some Western analysts have said fiercer fighting and reported use of reserve troops suggests it was.

“I am in touch with our commanders of different directions every day,” he added, citing the names of five of Ukraine’s top military leaders. “Everyone is positive. Pass this on to Putin.”

 

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