Re-upping this I wrote in November about possible consequences of the Nova-Kakhovka dam being blown [_link]

— James Beardsworth (@Beardsworth13) June 6, 2023

Moscow Times is biased pro-West and has re-located to Amsterdam.

'Sapere aude'

The Dnieper Cascade (6 dam controlled current) flows SOUTH to the mouth of the Dnieper into the Black Sea. As far as I know, no NATO press disputes UA  control and operation of all dams UPSTREAM of Kakhovka. More significant, none have acknowledged Cascade infrastructure over the course of the war, "threats" to the ZNPP, or even now that the Kakhovka Dam has "collapsed". Accordingly, the "vulnerability" and sudden of its collapse is a mystery to ignorant G7 war-crime spectators who have dismissed Crimean "victims" of UA.gov "aggression" or have been deprived of factual UA artillary battles and administrative prerogatives for control of the liberation of "Kherson" (city, oblast, or region), of which G7 featured Novo Kakhovka and Oleshky, one of sundry villages planted by generations of Ukrainians in marsh reclaimed by Kakhovka Dam.

Construction of the Dnieper Cascade of river dams and reservoirs started UPSTREAM in Kiev and ended DOWNSTREAM at Nova Kakhovka. The Middle Dnieper Dam in Kamianske and Dnieper Dam in Zaporizh* are UPSTREAM from Novo Kakhovka. The length of Kamianske Reservoir between these two dams is 114 km. (The ZNPP and ZTPP in Enero*har on the Kakhovka Reservoir are located ~ 50 km DOWNSTREAM from the Middle River Dam, which UA controls, ~ 80 km UPSTREAM from the Kakhovka Dam.) Note that Ukraine government controls the highland (meters) on the "right"-west bank of the Dnieper; this position provides UA offensive and defensive military advantages which the RF cannot overcome, having arrived in Kherson with minimal land force in from the east the first place. Hence, retreat with "pro-Kremlin" civilians further inland east in November 2022 and fortified artilitary posture controlling the Kinburn Spit further DOWNSTREAM.

The length of the Kakhovka Reservoir (shown as a 18 m surface mass) between the Dnieper Dam and DOWNSTREAM Kakhovka Dam in Novo Kakhovka is 129 km. The area south of the dam in Novo Kakhovka is the natural Dnieper "delta," mediated by Cascade construction 1950-1980s.

Kakhovka Reservoir contains the largest volume of water of the Cascade, BECAUSE the Kakhovka Dam (detail shown below) is the DOWNSTREAM terminal location of Cascade run-off that is not diverted from UPSTREAM reservoirs to inland leased reservoirs for HPPs agricultural irrigation. Ukrhydroenergo had built up high Kakhovka Reservoir levels from which it pump water into the North Crimean Canal until 2014.