OT: Putin's War in Ukraine

[kato13]

I have a feeling we are going to be hearing a lot about the
Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant
in the next few days.

Multiple sources say it is destroyed.

It is

• The source of water for the Crimean Peninsula
• The reservoir for the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
• A major source of electricity in the Russian controlled regions.

The effects are massive for and against both sides of this conflict.

• Slowing potential Ukrainian Advances
• Adding difficulty to Dnieper river crossings
• Flooding Russian defensive fortifications and mine fields
• Losing power and water supplies to vast regions of Russian controlled Ukraine
• Further disrupting nuclear plant operations.

And to complicate things even more it could be an engineering failure rather than as a result of a controlled demolition or attack. I am going to be watching this one closely.