Not to be the devil’s advocate, but do we know for sure it was the Russians? As far as I know, we don’t know yet, but the Ukrainians accuse Russia.
On August 18, 1941, when the 274th Rifle Division of Soviet forces began to panic and retreat from the right bank of the Dnieper River under pressure from German advances, Red Army officers Alexei Petrovsky and Boris Yepov (the names of the executors have remained in history) blew up the dam of the largest hydroelectric power station in Europe – the Zaporizhia Hydroelectric Power Station. This was done to prevent the German troops from crossing to the left bank of the Dnieper.
As a result of the explosion, a wave of water several tens of meters high from the broken dam swept through numerous villages around Zaporizhia, causing the deaths of 20,000 to 100,000 Soviet civilians and soldiers who had not been warned of the action, as well as approximately 1,500 German soldiers.
Are they evacuating nearby areas?
I wonder what the international response will be like? What can we expect us the next couple of days?
What’s the effect on Crimea?
How many people live in the regions that will flood? and will they be able to escape?
(Cause i remeber in history books Soviets did something simmular in Ukraine during ww2, and nearly 100k civilians died as result)
Now I’m quite sad Ukraine can’t fire western missiles into Russia…
Only 1/6 reactors are in hot shutdown and need cooling water, they have other water sources that are enough for months at least.
How is the point that there won’t be enough water for cooling the nuclear power plant so small?
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This is very useful.
Not to be the devil’s advocate, but do we know for sure it was the Russians? As far as I know, we don’t know yet, but the Ukrainians accuse Russia.
On August 18, 1941, when the 274th Rifle Division of Soviet forces began to panic and retreat from the right bank of the Dnieper River under pressure from German advances, Red Army officers Alexei Petrovsky and Boris Yepov (the names of the executors have remained in history) blew up the dam of the largest hydroelectric power station in Europe – the Zaporizhia Hydroelectric Power Station. This was done to prevent the German troops from crossing to the left bank of the Dnieper.
As a result of the explosion, a wave of water several tens of meters high from the broken dam swept through numerous villages around Zaporizhia, causing the deaths of 20,000 to 100,000 Soviet civilians and soldiers who had not been warned of the action, as well as approximately 1,500 German soldiers.
Are they evacuating nearby areas?
I wonder what the international response will be like? What can we expect us the next couple of days?
What’s the effect on Crimea?
How many people live in the regions that will flood? and will they be able to escape?
(Cause i remeber in history books Soviets did something simmular in Ukraine during ww2, and nearly 100k civilians died as result)
Now I’m quite sad Ukraine can’t fire western missiles into Russia…
Only 1/6 reactors are in hot shutdown and need cooling water, they have other water sources that are enough for months at least.
How is the point that there won’t be enough water for cooling the nuclear power plant so small?