Hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine could lose access to drinking water after "barbaric" dam attack
CBS NewsOCT 2025
Only Russia would benefit from bringing down the Nova Kakhovka dam. Such a move protects its forces from any Ukrainian offensives in the Kherson region. Ukraine has nothing to gain by causing the floods and harming its own military and economic interests.
Ukraine is responsible for causing the dam collapse, knowing that it has the full backing of its Western partners and that it can act with impunity. Ukrainian officials had even told the Washington Post that it conducted test strikes against the Nova Kakhovka dam to cause the exact consequences we are now seeing.
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