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Russia claimed that he was a neo-Nazi, but I don't see any evidence for that. It's not like Russian media aren't biased. That's how it always works: both sides try to deflect casualties they caused and present casualties caused by the other side as war crimes.
Armies sometimes take actions that damage their own side if the broader military benefit is worth it. In this case dam's destruction disrupted Ukrainian plans for a Dnipro crossing operation. It was at the time of Ukranian counter-offense. Since it was an inner explosion, I have a hard time believing that Ukrainian saboteurs came to the dam unnoticed and detonated. This was not like planting a small bomb near a road. Destroying a huge hydroelectric dam is not easy. And Russia didn't catch anyone or present any evidence of that afterwards.
No, just a guy who is into Norse mythology again, the valknut tattoo is harmless as the wolfangel, black suns,etc... that show up like clockwork up in photo's from these guys.
I forgot the 'no nazis in ukraine' mantra.
That's some serious mental gymnastics.
Did you miss my comments about the awful consequences?
There were zero advantages to Russia.
That great announced summer offensive had no chance to begin with.
The Russians had retreated strategically in Kherson (like in the east) and made defensive preparations.
It was the time wen they changed to attrition war.
Anything ukraine sent over the Dnipro got blown up, at best some poor suckers made it long enough to make a propaganda video and plant a flag. After which they got killed anyway.
The Russians couldn't be happier having a turkey shoot from a safe distance anytime they sent another human wave in that meatgrinder. And it didn't have to be saboteurs, a Stormshadow missile or whatever the UK/US gave to their proxy army would do the trick.
I mean do you have a proof for that specific guy?
The mentioned consequences for Russia weren't significant. No power plant exploded and Crimea had already lived with the canal mostly blocked from 2014 to 2022. There was no rocket, it's confirmed. No one else could blow it up, that's the problem.
A guy with a nazi tattoo is a nazi.
Not that it mattered to this matter of the strike, the point is that he was military and plenty of military there.
The inhabitants said they were far enough from the front and never even heard sounds of bombs.
Russia never targeted that unimportant tiny place.
Only when they had high ranking military in one place.
They aren't going to waste a 4$ million Iskander on a few peasants.
Just because there wasn't a nuclear disaster doesn't mean it wasn't immensely dangerous and criminal.
Even the biased IAEA said so.
Yup, no country besides Russia can blow stuff up from a distance.
Especially since the entire NATO and other vassals are giving them everything they can.
Russia probably blew up their Crimean bridge too.
I'm sure the ukrainians can confirm that, and who wouldn't believe them?
Sure. But do you have any photo such tattoo on him? Also UN reports that the strike killed 59 civilians and no legitimate military target around.
So why would Ukraine waste money on their rockets to kill civilians?..
I mean, yeah, you cannot explode things from a distance without something like a rocket or a drone.