ISW says the Russians complain and panic because the Ukranians attack at night equiped with night vision and the Russians don't have enough for their soldiers on the front
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This is something I don't understand about the dam being blown. It just made it really difficult to sustain Crimea, it's almost an admission that they don't expect to keep it.In crimea water is being rationed, in some towns the taps are turned on for just 4 hours a day by the authorities
This is something I don't understand about the dam being blown. It just made it really difficult to sustain Crimea, it's almost an admission that they don't expect to keep it.
Even if the war ended today, it still leaves Crimea waterless and with no quick way to fix that issue. One of the reasons to go to war was to secure Crimea's water supply - blowing up the dam hasn't helped that.
This and destroying their own defences and drowning their own troops, it's almost like they didn't blow the dam up and someone else did...This is something I don't understand about the dam being blown. It just made it really difficult to sustain Crimea, it's almost an admission that they don't expect to keep it.
Even if the war ended today, it still leaves Crimea waterless and with no quick way to fix that issue. One of the reasons to go to war was to secure Crimea's water supply - blowing up the dam hasn't helped that.
This and destroying their own defences and drowning their own troops, it's almost like they didn't blow the dam up and someone else did...
In crimea water is being rationed, in some towns the taps are turned on for just 4 hours a day by the authorities
But did they? A crossing over the river was unlikely, opposed river crossing isn't easy, especilly over a wide river and if they hadn't blown the dam - they could do when (if) the crossing starts and cause absolute chaos, destroyng the bridging equipment and swamping any beachead.Except, they shortened their front line and stopped any counter-attack from the Kherson area. do you really think they wouldn't do it just because a few soldiers would die and a whole load of civilians would suffer ? have you not been watching Russian military tactics for the last 200 hundred years.
The Wikipedia article on it says that cultivated land fell from 130,000 hectares to 14,000 between 2013 and 2017, although coversly Russia says that crop yields incresed by 1.5 over a similar period. Maybe that means the smaller amount of farmed land is at least more productive.Water to Crimea was cut off for most of the occupation between 2014 and the 2022 escalation. Russia presumably knows how to supply sufficient water, although I guess it depends what state the bridge is in, and whether Ukraine can strike it again.
The Wikipedia article on it says that cultivated land fell from 130,000 hectares to 14,000 between 2013 and 2017, although coversly Russia says that crop yields incresed by 1.5 over a similar period. Maybe that means the small amount of farmed land is at least more productive.
It completely blows my mind watching these Russian shows. The lies that Russia make, the brutality they inflict without any remorse.
It completely blows my mind watching these Russian shows. The lies that Russia make, the brutality they inflict without any remorse.
Water to Crimea was cut off for most of the occupation between 2014 and the 2022 escalation. Russia presumably knows how to supply sufficient water, although I guess it depends what state the bridge is in, and whether Ukraine can strike it again.
And yet the MAGA supporters don't see the connection.Its easy to see why MAGA Republicans and Russian leadership get on so well and support each other. Neither live in reality and will say anything knowing their followers are conditioned to accept it.
And yet the MAGA supporters don't see the connection.