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How stupid is LowEndBox? Just remove the photograph.
> "We're not going to say anything until we are completely armed with all the available facts. So we're going to err on the side of caution on this one," Cleverly said in an interview on the sidelines of a meeting at the OECD in Paris.
> He said that Russia bore ultimate responsibility for all events and destruction in the war, however, having initiated the conflict with its invasion in February last year.
> "It's clear that this event is a direct repercussion of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and there's nothing that Russia can do to hide that fact," he said.
A destroyed canal can be fixed in no time. The canal was destroyed for eight years since 2014 and it was fixed very quickly when the Russians got access to the area.
>The development of Russia in the post-Cold War period was not the result of a Western plot or Western actions. Russian officials chose, within a narrow range of options, how to behave, and they could have chosen differently. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, in February, 2022, was no more inevitable or foreordained than the U.S. invasion of Iraq, in 2003. Still, it’s worth asking what other course we might have followed.
Dnieper River, killing thousands of civilians and military
personnel from both sides of the conflict. After taking
over the area, the Germans partially rebuilt the dam. Two
years later, as Soviet forces were pushing them out of
Ukraine, Nazi troops blew it up for a second time. At the
end of the war, the Soviets rebuilt the dam.