Ukrainian War Developments
- Thread starter james smith esq
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Wait but The same video was used to show destruction at lrpin. This was from the drive website.
Unless lrpin is in donetsk? Or they have the same terrain?
If Ukrainians are casually blowing up their own infrastructure like this, they're basically banking on NATO and EU funding their entire reconstruction either directly or by forcing Russia to do so. But there's no guarantee that either will happen.
The problem is that Ukraine doesn't have the capability or funds to rebuild any of its infrastructure. The reason Ukraine still looked decent from the outside (well, prewar) despite GDP per capita roughly the same as Syria is because they had trillions in accumulated Soviet era infrastructure that only required limited maintenance. It is FAR harder and FAR more expensive to build than to maintain.
Every building that is damaged, is a building that won't be rebuilt. Every piece of infrastructure that's destroyed, is another thing that Ukrainians will just have to live without. By blowing up their own dams twice (once in Kiev, and now once in Donbass) it shows they don't care about their own infrastructure which is very unusual for a country fighting defensively, unless the situation was truly desperate. China only did this in 1937 against Imperial Japan.
I think a giant physical and road map of Ukraine should be pinned so people can refer to it.
wait, the Donets River only runs through Severodonetsk/Lysychansk. It doesn't have anything to do with the DPR front near Kramatorsk. If Ukrainian forces blew up the dam they'd also be trapping themselves between the Donetsk and Orskil rivers in a giant cauldron - the only way out is northeast into Russia, but that front already has troops coming south, so they really have nowhere to go, their backs are literally to the water. It would be a huge own goal to do that.
Send one to the Drive At least some Americans can finally be good at geography for once.
it doesn't make sense to blow up a dam on the Donets for both military and economic reasons, so I guess they're recycling footage.
Then I retract that claim, had not seen the earlier video. And I haven't verified that the video in question shows Irpin exactly either, but it makes total sense because the Ukrainians also blew up a dam in the Kiev Reservoir that flooded some of the area northwest of Kiev.
Nevertheless, the part about the Ukrainians repelling the major recent Russian assaults in the Donbas is still true.
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