If someone waiting for you on the other side... nothing can pass. Loosing one side of the dam is one thing, the dam blowing up is another.if they lost the dam then its moot, and the dam itself is a major crossing.
If someone waiting for you on the other side... nothing can pass. Loosing one side of the dam is one thing, the dam blowing up is another.if they lost the dam then its moot, and the dam itself is a major crossing.
Russia is already setting up more defensive lines in Crimea itself:
hopefully they can hold the chokepoint, but at least they'll be less scared of the dam breaking and destroying Kherson if they don't occupy Kherson.If someone waiting for you on the other side... nothing can pass. Loosing one side of the dam is one thing, the dam blowing up is another.
War crime. Not that anyone has the capability to prosecute Russians but it would look bad for their propaganda campaign to get more Ukrainians to flee to Russia for the demographic attrition part of the war.What are the prospect of Russia blow the dam themselves to drown the defenders should they want to retake Kherson?
Is it warcrime if the place is empty?War crime. Not that anyone has the capability to prosecute Russians but it would look bad for their propaganda campaign to get more Ukrainians to flee to Russia for the demographic attrition part of the war.
Losing Kherson is a major strategic loss. The only way to make this up is if they use the forces freed up to go on the offensive elsewhere, cut the bridges across the Dnieper as much as possible, and take rest of Donbass + push up the east bank of the Dnieper towards Zaphorizhia city.
I'm surprised only 80k loyalist citizens are evacuating. Kherson had a population of 280k.
They could always try false flagging it and blame AFU.War crime. Not that anyone has the capability to prosecute Russians but it would look bad for their propaganda campaign to get more Ukrainians to flee to Russia for the demographic attrition part of the war.