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EdgeofDawn said:
Just saw the videos on Telegram. Is this going to seriously affect the operation of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant?
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Possibly not, the below is from Intel Slava:


Breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station - what will happen to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant: expert commentary

There is a person among my acquaintances who is very well versed in the matter. And I asked him to make a comment, what could be the consequences for the Zaporozhye NPP of today's breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP.

Here is the original text:

"At the Zaporozhye NPP, the spent fuel pools and the reactor in the MCU mode (minimum controlled level) are cooled from special" splash "pools, they are located on land and are clearly visible from the satellite. There, water circulates in a closed circuit, gradually evaporates from heating by the sun and it is simply topped up (not from the river).

The cooling pond is separated from the Kakhovka reservoir by a dam and has a couple of gates for "receiving" or "draining" water (depending on the level difference).

The pond is large, I don’t remember a single case when in the summer there was a decrease in the power of the blocks due to the high water temperature in the pond. The pond is divided by a partition into 2 parts, so that water can be taken from one place, and the water that has passed through the turbine condensers can be drained to another. Water "walks" around the ring and cools.

In any case, the Zaporozhye NPP will operate only with the 5th and 6th blocks for the time being, and this pond will definitely be enough for them.

If there is a problem with water, one or more plastic pipes will reach the place where there will still be water in the reservoir and this will be enough to solve it. In this case, you just need to compensate for evaporation and leakage in the reservoir."
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Taking a little trip down memory lane before this Washington Post article is stealth edited ;)


Kovalchuk considered flooding the river. The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages.

The test was a success, Kovalchuk said, but the step remained a last resort. He held off.
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Kiev's Long-Term "Last Resort" Plan To Blow-Up The Kakhova Dam Exposed​


The partial destruction of the Kakhovka Dam on early Tuesday morning saw Kiev and Moscow exchange accusations about who’s to blame, but a report from the Washington Post (WaPo) in late December extends credence to the Kremlin’s version of events.

Titled “Inside the Ukrainian counteroffensive that shocked Putin and reshaped the war”, its journalists quoted former commander of November’s Kherson Counteroffensive Major General Andrey Kovalchuk who shockingly admitted to planning this war crime:

“Kovalchuk considered flooding the river. The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages. The test was a success, Kovalchuk said, but the step remained a last resort. He held off.”
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Kiev's Long-Term "Last Resort" Plan To Blow-Up The Kakhova Dam Exposed | ZeroHedge

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I found this bit from Simplicius' latest post on the dam flooding quite interesting:

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BREAKING: Hell Breaks Loose as Kakhovka Dam Completely Destroyed

Major news broke that the Nova Khakovka dam has been completely destroyed. This is the central, extremely important dam that was critical to the whole Kherson situation last year. It was the sole reason Russia retreated, as the threat of destroying the dam kept their troops on the right/western...
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I’ve been doubting Ukraine would really have the guts to go all out with their new Western gear. It’s all they have, so if they fail and lose most of it, it could be over for them. On top of which, what Western country would want to send them MORE of their precious arms if Ukraine proves that these prestige weapons don’t work on the real battlefield, and humiliates them by getting them destroyed by Russia? I doubt Germany would want to send more Leopards, or France Leclercs, UK Challengers, etc., once they see these tanks destroyed. It would be too embarrassing to keep sending them and proving their inefficacy on the world stage.

So my point is, the new idea for their ‘offensive’ I came up with, is it seems to me they want to probe Russian lines as much as possible with their ‘fodder’ and expendable brigades. And if they should find a weak spot that they can push through, they’ll pour in as much of their secondary units as possible. And only then, if the victory looks clearly tangible, and they’ve pushed Russian troops very far back, they’ll allow the special brigades with the Western armor to roll into the captured towns to basically take the credit, steal the limelight, and sell the victory as one achieved by the ‘miraculous’ wunderwaffen of Western armor.

This will allow them to lobby for much more arms, as they will have definitive “proof” for the Western Eurocrats that their tanks and arms are so special and effective. So this is all to say that, personally, I don’t expect to see these “special brigades” and their much-vaunted Western armor unless the frontal meat-shield vanguard makes serious breakthroughs somewhere on the Russian line. The ‘prestige’ weapons hiding in the rear will only be rolled up to the ‘parade’ to pretend that it was them doing the work all along, and that mighty Leopards/Challengers/Abrams/etc. were the ones that actually destroyed the Russian legions, including their tank equivalents.

But since I don’t expect the meat assault units to make such miraculous breakthroughs, that means I continue to stick to what I said in the older pasted article above, that I don’t think we’ll see this Western gear actually used. There’s very little chance Ukraine or their handlers have the pluck and balls to actually put up their best gear against Russian forces. This is why we continue to hear these rumors about ‘phantom Leopard sightings’ like it’s some kind of Bigfoot skulking around in the rear. I think it’s likely true, they have a few driving around in the rear simply as a sort of morale booster for the meat fodder sent into the assaults. They flash one of these Leopards around to basically say “see, we’ve got your back! Now go get ‘em, Tiger!” then they hide the tank back in the forest.
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Oh, and this is amusing:

Today, they released more such fake videos, including one of themselves climbing out of a sewer, in a cheap Nazi-Super-Mario rendition, or was it the Ninja Turtles?
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It's a me, Nazio!

(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
 
How badly was the dam really destroyed? Clearly the islands downstream are having to be evacuated, and that is to the disadvantage of forces deployed there. But if the still submerged portion of the dam remains intact, advantage could go to the nuclear power plant and to Crimea.
 
Evan said:
Colonel MacGregor seems to have a very different opinion than Alex at The Duran does.

Napolitano and Col MacGregor
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MacGregor sees no military benefit of the dam destruction for either side. "Military benefit" is not very important in terms of goals of the Dirty Tricks Department, however.

Based on what we have seen in the Western media, with many of the outlets immediately and simultaneously pushing the same narrative of blaming Russia, I would guess this is just part of the dirty tricks of the CIA or MI6 with the goals of creating chaos, extending the conflict, and demonising Russia.
 
Jefferson said:
MacGregor sees no military benefit of the dam destruction for either side. "Military benefit" is not very important in terms of goals of the Dirty Tricks Department, however.
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I disagree with the colonel on this one.
Here's a great article by South Front about the issue
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Overview Of Attack On Kakhovka Dam: Cui Bono?

It has been known for a long time that Kiev was preparation to destroy the dam in Novaya Kakhovka. A...
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Defense Ministry: the Center group struck the positions of three Ukrainian brigades

MOSCOW, June 7 — RIA Novosti. Army aviation and artillery of the Center group of troops hit the positions of three Ukrainian brigades, the head of the group's press center, Alexander Savchuk, told RIA Novosti.
"The positions of the 81st Airmobile Brigade, 66th and 67th mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian troops were defeated by missile strikes of army aviation and artillery fire of the Center group of troops in the Krasnolimansk and Svatovsk directions," Savchuk said.

In the areas of Nevsky and Chervona Dibrova, the operational and tactical aviation of the Russian group carried out missile and bomb attacks on an ammunition depot, temporary deployment points, as well as on enemy firepower.
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Группировка "Центр" нанесла удар по позициям трех украинских бригад

The Russian military seized secret Canadian-made equipment for detecting and calculating the coordinates of aerial drone operators.

This was announced in his Telegram channel by Alexander Khodakovsky, deputy head of the main directorate of the Ros Guard for the DPR.

Because of the high tactical and technical characteristics, captured equipment is of great interest to intelligence and drone control specialists.

"Similar equipment has been used systematically before, but the resulting sample exceeds everything we knew at times. This discovery causes reasonable alarm among specialists," Alexander Khodakovsky wrote.

As a counteraction to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian military began to introduce the practice of using remote antennas and controlling drones from cover. This allows you to reliably hide the locations of drone operators and avoid attempts to suppress the point with firepower: artillery and mortar fire.
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Denis Pushilin: APU tanks shot their own Leopard
Oleg Koryakin
Denis Pushilin, the acting head of the DPR, told about an unusual case that occurred during the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the air of Solovyov Live. Ukrainian tankers destroyed their own Leopard so that it would not become a trophy.

"At one of the sites, a few days ago there was an attempt to break through with the participation of a Leopard tank - our people "screwed it up" and tried to drag it to themselves for study. When our tanks moved out to pull him out, 2 APU tanks appeared, but instead of repelling our attack, they began to destroy the Leopard tank. They shot him beyond recognition."

Earlier, Alexander Khodakovsky, Deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Russian National Guard for the DPR, reported the appearance of Leopard tanks on the Ugledar front. According to the reports of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on June 5, eight German-made tanks were destroyed during an attempt to attack the AFU.
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Денис Пушилин: Танки ВСУ расстреляли свой же Leopard - Российская газета

More than 900 people were evacuated from the areas of flooding in the Kherson region
Dmitry Kulemyakin
At least 900 citizens were evacuated from the districts of the Kherson region, which were flooded after the destruction of the Kakhovskaya HPP. This statement was made by the head of the New Kakhovka, Vladimir Leontiev.

He said that more than 900 residents were moved to safe places, the TASS news agency reports. Leontiev clarified that we are talking about the evacuation, which took place on Tuesday, June 6.

The day before, the upper part of the Kakhovskaya HPP was destroyed after several strikes by Ukrainian militants. After that, the water discharge began. In three districts of the Kherson region, the process of evacuation of civilians has begun.
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Более 900 человек эвакуированы из районов подтопления в Херсонской области - Российская газета
 
BHelmet said:
Gee, how can you not believe someone who wears their own custom logo tee shirt merch?
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You mean Alex? Yeah he’s got every conceivable color and flag in the logo too. Tees, hoodies, hats. Probably a case for his phone. He does promote the brand, that’s for sure. 🤣

I agree, he and Alexander Mercouris, as well as Ritter and Berletic seem of one mind. I was surprised to hear MacGregor offer such a different take. I mean, not foul play?? Unimaginable in the current climate! I had to share.
 
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