2/ Russian forces will likely attempt to blow up the dam at the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) to cover their withdrawal and to prevent Ukrainian forces from pursuing Russian forces deeper into #Kherson Oblast. https://t.co/K7MWzKbivC
— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) October 22, 2022
2/ By blowing up the Kakhovska dam to slow down the #Ukrainian offensive on #Kherson, the Russians will shoot themselves in a leg ➡️ the canal Dnipro-Crimea that brings water to the occupied Crimean peninsula may drain as well. (Photo is from social media and illustrative) pic.twitter.com/LFcNZu87M3
— Viktor Kovalenko (@MrKovalenko) October 20, 2022
4/ By blowing up the dam on the Dnipro river, Putin's Army may repeat what their grandfathers from Stalin's NKVD did by blowing up the dam in Zaporizhzhya in August 1941. It didn't slow the German offensive. But the flooding killed thousands of #Ukrainians living down the river. pic.twitter.com/hon1eczX7a
— Viktor Kovalenko (@MrKovalenko) October 20, 2022