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“Collapsed due to damage“. Looks pretty clearly like an explosion.

Russian state news agency. The fine folks that bring news reports like “local nerd found hitting himself by school bully”

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Interesting follow-up by the same poster here, quoting WaPo tweeting some Maxar photos, showing that the dam seems to have suffered some damage in the past week - adding credence to the possibility that it did, in fact, "collapsed due to damage", without either side specifically pulling the trigger today.

https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1665937030222692352

But that brings up the question, what was happening there in the week prior? Was there any active fighting in the area?

The Russians deliberately allowed water levels to raise to unprecedented levels. Most likely in preparation to detonate it.

https://twitter.com/intelarrow/status/1666010580497448960?s=...

This could’ve caused the damage?

US 'cannot say conclusively' what happened in dam breach - Kirby

Yeah right. lol. And that is a clear signal that Ukraine was behind it. But as always the warmongers will try 4d chess to convince you Russia did it, like it blew nord stream, attacked crimea bridge, and shot missiles into Poland.

It could just be the US doesn't have special info, like the rest of us. The fact that it was in a Russian controlled area, rigged with Russian explosives and that the damage would mostly be inflicted on Ukraine suggest maybe it was Russia, no 4d chess required.

Strikes me as "let's confirm and be extra sure before making public statements". But feel free to tell the story you want to hear.

This is by far hilarious and sad. You have an interesting way to tweak facts and transform the narrative.

You could make a career out of it (if you haven't done so).

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Well, explosive damage..

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