2023-06-12 20:52:29
There are signs that Russia has realized its imminent defeat in Ukraine and now wants to undermine Ukraine economically as much as possible.
The destruction of Kakhovka HPP was a strike on Ukraine's economy. Agricultural capacity of Ukrainian South has suffered unbelievable damage that will take decades to restore. Heavy industry in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions will also be impacted greatly by this act of terror. Damage to the environment is huge and lasting.
North-Crimean canal was also left without water as a result of the explosion. This means agriculture in Crimea will be virtually impossible and residents will continue facing a shortage of drinking water.
Furthermore, @DI_Ukraine
has information that Russia has placed explosives inside Titan plant in Crimean Armiansk. If Russia decided to blow it up, a cloud of about 200 tons of ammonia would cover the nearby areas.
Plants, coal mines, fields etc that are in the areas of Donbas occupied by Russia, have also been destroyed, severely damaged and/or heavily mined.
Russia wants Ukraine to become economically unsustainable, unable to support herself. Reconstruction, rebuilding, de-mining and other restoring of territories will take a lot of time and money before they are able to function again. All this time, Ukraine will need to rely on external aid for survival.
Russia is hoping that it will be able to restore its army and weapon stocks to attack Ukraine several years later, and succeed this time.
Ukraine needs strong and sustainable security guarantees to ensure this doesn't happen. A bloody war in the center of Europe must not repeat.
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