Oh yeah, hard to miss the news yesterday about the big as hell dam breaking in Ukraine. I have peripheral experience with hydropower, and I called pops to talk with the man about it - as he has worked in the biz for over 30 years.
And it was a bleak rundown I got. Normally, in any flood like this it leaves the farmland pretty much unusable for years with trash and debris floating over it - but the 150 tons of hydraulic oil will be the worst of it.
And that will likely destroy the farmland for years to come. And then there is not to mentioned the Russian landmines being washed away and deposited who knows where. If not blasting some poor farmer or child, they will rust and seep out chemicals into the ground around it.
And there is little chance of it being a Ukrainian operation. Russia threatened to destroy it before, and artillery will not break the concrete housing or the doors. It needs to be a deliberate task of sabotage to make that happen.
And this will be one mighty “F.U” to Ukraine to destroy the power infrastructure. But I somehow believe it is entirely in line with military commanders from that side of the conflict to make petty and vastly ill-informed decisions like these.