It is so hard to know what to believe these days, and getting harder. I like that the BBC have a Reality Check service. The challenge is that disinformation is a standard tool in times of war (and peace) and the people who serve it up are often very good at their work. Social media can help, but even there, agents deliberately or accidentally serve up fake news. World leaders have been known to serve up disinformation and that's putting it mildly.
No it is not. Any army engineer corps soldier trained in demolitions can tell you how it is done. Just the way the Russian army enineers did on a recent Teegraph video.
You may have misunderstood me, Will. I wasn't for a second suggesting it wasn't the Russians. I was talking in general about disinformation being endemic. I was also appreciating that there are news media services that aim to fact check information.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. As you know from my posts, I am in contact with Ukrainians inside the war zone. The locals know that Russia had transferred tons of explosives to that location during the year long occupation of the dam. Then a recent video made by two Russian soldiers in the Engineering Battalion laid out how they set all the explosives as I described earlier. It is interesting that shorly after the World opinion and ICC started talking about adding this tragic catastrophe to the list of Putin's War Crimes that he did a stint in the hospital. I believe he will be like Jeff Epstein, He fakes his death and lives out his life moving from mansion to mansion evading the hanging he deserves [ Just speculation on my part. But Putin is a person who will never admit to his mistakes or errors. This whole war is an example of that.
How about testimony from two Russian soldiers who were in the engineering batallion station in Kherson. They explained in a video that they were assigned temporarily to the unit stationed at the Kakhovka dam for almost a year. Their job was to wire all the explosives needed to blow the dam when word came from the kremlin. Others in their unit were busy doing the same thing at the Zaparesia nuke plant on the Reservoir to the north east. one other clue is that any army engineer corps member can tell you that a hydro plan with sluice stanchions anchored in 20 + feet of water at the base of tehsluice gates cannot be damaged to that extent over 300 feet of stanchions blown away, not with a rocket ot Himar. it must be done from the inside and with specific explosives where they can do that type of damage. Putin is just worried that he will have another major war crime added to his list. Himmler, the Nazi war criminal who 70 years earlier enacted a scorched policy against the Ukrainians in WWII as he was forced back into Germany by the Russians retaking Ukraine {again] knew they could only hang him once at Nuremberg. so like Putin he was not deterred by a global court of justice
Whether the Russians purposely placed the dynamite in the dam, or maintenance couldn’t be done because of the war, the end result is the same. Because of the Russians the dam failed. Guilty.
It is so hard to know what to believe these days, and getting harder. I like that the BBC have a Reality Check service. The challenge is that disinformation is a standard tool in times of war (and peace) and the people who serve it up are often very good at their work. Social media can help, but even there, agents deliberately or accidentally serve up fake news. World leaders have been known to serve up disinformation and that's putting it mildly.
No it is not. Any army engineer corps soldier trained in demolitions can tell you how it is done. Just the way the Russian army enineers did on a recent Teegraph video.
You may have misunderstood me, Will. I wasn't for a second suggesting it wasn't the Russians. I was talking in general about disinformation being endemic. I was also appreciating that there are news media services that aim to fact check information.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. As you know from my posts, I am in contact with Ukrainians inside the war zone. The locals know that Russia had transferred tons of explosives to that location during the year long occupation of the dam. Then a recent video made by two Russian soldiers in the Engineering Battalion laid out how they set all the explosives as I described earlier. It is interesting that shorly after the World opinion and ICC started talking about adding this tragic catastrophe to the list of Putin's War Crimes that he did a stint in the hospital. I believe he will be like Jeff Epstein, He fakes his death and lives out his life moving from mansion to mansion evading the hanging he deserves [ Just speculation on my part. But Putin is a person who will never admit to his mistakes or errors. This whole war is an example of that.
I hope you're wrong. I so hope he stands trial for war crimes.
How about testimony from two Russian soldiers who were in the engineering batallion station in Kherson. They explained in a video that they were assigned temporarily to the unit stationed at the Kakhovka dam for almost a year. Their job was to wire all the explosives needed to blow the dam when word came from the kremlin. Others in their unit were busy doing the same thing at the Zaparesia nuke plant on the Reservoir to the north east. one other clue is that any army engineer corps member can tell you that a hydro plan with sluice stanchions anchored in 20 + feet of water at the base of tehsluice gates cannot be damaged to that extent over 300 feet of stanchions blown away, not with a rocket ot Himar. it must be done from the inside and with specific explosives where they can do that type of damage. Putin is just worried that he will have another major war crime added to his list. Himmler, the Nazi war criminal who 70 years earlier enacted a scorched policy against the Ukrainians in WWII as he was forced back into Germany by the Russians retaking Ukraine {again] knew they could only hang him once at Nuremberg. so like Putin he was not deterred by a global court of justice
Whether the Russians purposely placed the dynamite in the dam, or maintenance couldn’t be done because of the war, the end result is the same. Because of the Russians the dam failed. Guilty.
Russia Is A Terrorist State.