They claimed before to have destroyed Bradley's before they even entered service in Ukraine and destroyed more HIMARS than Ukraine even had.

It annoys me a little that Western media report on their claims with a little disclaimer tucked away in the article that their claims can't be independently verified...Russia lies, they lie all the time, stop reporting on their shitty claim, people just see the title "Russia destroys XYZ" and don't bother reading the article or have prior knowledge to the sheer amount of Russian lies.

There are a number of alternative sources of water.

A main one is the large cooling pond next to the site that by design is kept above the height of the reservoir. As the reactors have been shut down for many months it is estimated that this pond will be sufficient to provide water for cooling for some months. The Agency will confirm this very shortly.

It is therefore vital that this cooling pond remains intact. Nothing must be done to potentially undermine its integrity.

IAEA Director General Statement to the IAEA Board of Governors | IAEA

Next Head of EU Please.

The blow-up of the Kakhovka HPP by russians is a fundamentally new stage of russian aggression.

The complete and final dismantling of the whole false ideological kremlin construct took place: “liberation of Ukraine”, “fight against the Nazis”, “targeting only military objects” and other purely propagandistic and false theses.

russia has entered the stage of complete rejection of any solovyov-simonyan “fig leaves” and open declaration of its true goal – the destruction of Ukraine, killing Ukrainians, destroying the economy and life support structures.

In anticipation of the inevitable disappearance of russia and putin from history, false masks are no longer needed.

P.S.

Briefly about the results of the NSDC meeting: nothing and no one, not a single russian, will stop the liberation of Ukraine whose time has come.

The destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine will not prevent Ukrainian troops from advancing, Reuters reports a senior Ukrainian commander said on Tuesday.

"As for preventing our offensive actions, the military command has taken into full account such treacherous enemy actions, and it should not prevent our advance in those directions where there may be spillage of water," Serhiy Naev, commander of the joint forces of the armed forces of Ukraine, was quoted as saying by the state news agency Ukrinform.

Kakhovka Dam Blast Will Not Prevent Ukraine's Counteroffensive-General | Reuters

Although it remains not yet confirmed exactly how the dam was blown, it is the Russian military who, cynically, would probably think they have the most to gain.

Ukraine will have to deal with a destroyed dam plus the long-term environmental and humanitarian consequences. Experts fear it will wipe out islands in the delta and low-lying settlements, mostly on the southern bank. There are about 16,000 people estimated to be in the critical zone on the Ukrainian side of the river. Such predictable impacts mean it is likely to be a war crime, as defined in the Geneva conventions, if its breach causes "release of dangerous forces and consequent severe losses" to civilians.

The obvious military point is that Russia feared an amphibious attack across the Dnipro delta. Some of Ukraine's armed forces have been receiving marine training from the UK, suggesting that, at the very least, Kyiv wanted to keep the option open of trying what would have been a relative risky attack that, if successful, could have opened up the option of a more direct strike towards Crimea – or diverting Russian forces away from the southern front further east in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions.

Russian defensive positions downstream, as mapped from satellite imagery, have already been concentrated on higher ground. The breach of the dam is an uncertain event, and it will take some days before it is clear where the new river line will be – and whether the fortifications are in appropriate positions.

Widening the Dnipro River from hundreds of metres to several kilometres makes the task of crossing in strength all the harder at the delta. Russia still has its air force available to make a river crossing difficult, and as the battle for Kherson in November showed, it is difficult to keep a bridgehead across the country's central river supplied.

However, it is also the case that the river is likely to narrow upstream, south of Zaporizhzhia. That may also create some military opportunities for Kyiv. What is certain is that as with the impact on civilians and the environment, all the consequences are some way from being played out.

Russia-Ukraine

Send them the internal version of Storm Shadow with the maximum range so they can blow up that damn Kerch Bridge.

And make Sevastopol completely unviable as a port, the only reason Russia cares about Crimea in the first place.

Lol. No.

Russia has been controlling the dam and the entire Kakhovka HPP for more than a year. It is physically impossible to blow it up somehow from the outside, by shelling. It was mined by the Russian occupiers. And they blew it up.

Russia has detonated a bomb of mass environmental destruction. This is the largest man-made environmental disaster in Europe in decades. It is the most dangerous terrorist in the world. And that is why Russia's defeat – a defeat that we’ll ensure anyway – will be the most significant contribution to the security of our region, our Europe and the entire world.

However, don't we know what constantly fuels Russian revanchism? This is the belief of Russia's rulers that Europe will allegedly show weakness. Weakness is the main hope and bet of terrorists.

No more weakness in Europe against the evil of aggression! No more uncertainty about security prospects in Europe! Every step, decision and summit of ours must strengthen us all in our defense against Russian terror. No doubt, the Vilnius #NATOSummit must ensure this.

I said this addressing the Bucharest Nine Summit.

Absolute joke that Russia still has a UN seat.

Russia is a terrorist state and it's about time countries start officially labelling them as such.

Country of thieves, murderers and rapists which never evolved beyond their Stalin-loving, Nazi-partnering days.