INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
And President Volodomyr Zelensky has warned Russian forces could blow up the dam and its hydroelectric facility themselves in what he said
event that experts say would likely inflict mass destruction and spark a humanitarian crisis across a swathe of southern Ukraine.Why is the
wide, the dam stores roughly the same amount of water as the Great Salt Lake in the U.S
in fact withdraw all its troops to the left bank of the Dnipro River, the dam and the bridge could become part of the frontline between the
two armies.Satellite images published in Augustshowed several craters in the road bridge, which apparently forced Russian troops to
necessarily make the blowing of the dam more likely, there are precedents for retreating armies destroying infrastructure
from the right bank of the Dnipro in Kherson region had long been anticipated by military analysts, who predicted that the Russian position
officials in Kyiv have stepped up their warnings of a potential Russian false-flag operation to destroy the dam.According to Ukrainian
intelligence, Russia first mined the dam back in April and added more explosives to the floodgates and supporting structures last
Russia's efforts to knock out critical Ukrainian energy infrastructure in recent weeks
hyydroelectric power plant.Volodymyr Dziubak (CC BY-SA 4.0)But most experts warn that blowing the dam would not give Russia any significant
to destroy the dam, accusing Ukraine of plotting an attack themselves
catastrophic scenario, destroying the dam could send a highly destructive flood wave down the Dnipro River, causing severe flooding in large
areas of southern Ukraine
both water supplies to Moscow-annexed Crimea and risks cutting off access to cooling water for the Russian-controlled nuclear power plant in
