The irony.
On World Water Day, the Russians attack the largest remaining dam in Ukraine, a clear and explicit violation of the 1977 Geneva Convention Protocols against attacking civilian #water infrastructure and dams.
And a reminder they most certainly destroyed the massive Kakhovka Dam last June.
Unlikely they would have done any damage to the dam with those drones.
They hit the hydroelectric power station buildings and equipment.
Assuming Putin's forces destroyed the Kakhovka Dam, they would have used well placed very large demolition changes.
If Ukraine did it, they would have done the same.
@Havant_Enviro @petergleick drones? At least two missiles directly hit the dam.
But do continue licking putin's arse if you like.
@Havant_Enviro @petergleick you know there was AA active, the fact that dam is not ruined is not courtesy of russian scums or their "fine-grained workings" but hard work of UAF and AA units. The dam can sustain two rockets. But would it sustain 10?
Ukraine authorities have said it was hit 8 times and say there is no danger of it failing.
The buildings that were on fire housed the generating equipment.
The fact is that dams are hard to breach with 'standard' weapons in a forces armoury. It doesn't matter who is trying to do it.
@Havant_Enviro @petergleick 8 hits into HPP of them 2 in the dam.
What triggers me is your tone assuring that "it's ok for russians to bomb the dam, they know what they are doing". fucking no, it's not fucking ok to bomb the fucking dam. It's fucking dangerous, it's fucking killing people and fucking expensive to fucking repair.
It's your imagination mate.
If you had been following me, you would know the opposite was true.
In fact I have been pointing out recently that most modern conflict is incompatible with current decarbonisation goals.
Climate change should be considered in any decision to start a conflict and it should be discussed publicly.
People would think twice if they realised these wars accelerate climate change.
@ruff @petergleick
Mate, has the dam been breached?
Less of the abuse and less fanaticism.
FYI I worked for the Royal Navy on their weapons engineering training programme.