It been matter of time. Talks of blowing-up the dam been going around for months. Russia waited till the Ukrainian counteroffensive would begin. It shows that Russians are so desperate to come to some sort of negotiation as to cause massive ecological disaster, cause irreparable damages (billions of dollars to build a new dam), possibly even disrupting water supply to Crimea and possibly damaging the nuclear plant that is downstream.

The nuclear plant is at the reservoir (city of Energodar), not downstream.

It's time to start dropping flayers all around Russia - "Putin is worse then nazi"...

Interesting: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3992285

> I would like to draw your attention to the plans of the Kiev regime to destroy the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric dam in Kherson province. In particular, Ukrainian forces are considering launching sea mines downstream the Dnieper River or a massive missile strike. We are also registering air strikes targeting the locks of the electric power station with the intention to raise the river level.

Quote is from Russia representative to UN. Not interesting.

Look at the date and the content.

Russia is talking, which means Russia is lying, diverting attention, framing or victim blaming.

Everyone has known that the instant Russia felt threatened that the dam would (probably) be destroyed. The consequences are horrible for Ukraine but not so much for Russia. They have known that the counter offensive would be coming. Why not lay down some propaganda now for something that someone else should take the blame for in the future? With the help of a корисний ідіот of course.

Ok lets play this game, here is another russian speaking interesting things:

https://twitter.com/maxfras/status/1666079339178500100 https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1666075086107951106

Russia-appointed Kherson oblast governor Saldo, speaking right in front of the flooded streets of Novaya Kakhovka:

"Everything is fine in Novaya Kakhovka, people go about their daily business like any day"

"no big water present"

Both sides accused each other of planning to destroy the dam: https://www.dw.com/en/russia-ukraine-updates-ukraines-zelens...

Ukraine's security services have for quite some time warned that Russia was going to do that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/world/europe/zelensky-put...

The Nova Kakhovka Hydroelectric dam in Ukraine has been blown open - 12 hours ago (267 comments)

While we can all appreciate that video out of Ukraine is "Hollywood level", the real world isn't a super hero movie set.

The crowd in Washington DC isn't like it was in the 80s and 90s. The notion that they've actually got a grip on things and Ukraine is going to go the way they want.. yeah..