Whodunnit? That is the question.
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Hang on. The river's closest points are at Kherson oblast. The widest points are further upstream. It snakes around going out to sea, and had been dammed. I think there might be some in Donetsk as well. I don't know enough about its channels, run offs, and outflows.
Water levels lowering where. Water doesn't lower in a flood. It has increased. It doesn't change because the geography has changed. The river has changed. Yes it will drop slightly as it runs into floodplains and estuaries expanding. But the water level has risen. The dam has burst. The reservoir, is one of the largest in the World, and it will drop to a point below dammed, but likely not significant enough to drive vehicles across. Those points were in few places, and they weren't the main waterways, bridged? Now however the river has expanded.
Upstream is dammed. This is where there might possibly be Ukrainian meddling, by releasing dams and allowing more water downstream. However the river is at its widest, much of upstream, and there are still many active bridges crossing it regardless the further North.
Right after the dam. In Novaya Kakhovka that was flooded first. That means level in reservouir above dum fall to the level where destruction of gates not so severe, so the stream become smaller. It also means that level in reservouir above dam will not continue to fall at an initial rate just after gates destruction.
The flood moving toward Golaya Pristan where flooding began recently.
Sorry, composing, typos, half asleep. A long day, then writing hundreds of words.
Is this the Russian held town that had the hydro powerstation that was submerged? Is this where it is lowering from the original torrenting cascade? Explanation, because the river is expanding into the floodplains and estuaries going out to sea. Although won't it be some time before becoming inhabitable. It was at second storey height. Hasn't the river's banks burst and entire houses and cows and cars and beavers got carried away migrating into Kherson's costal outskirts, flooding their cellars with the drowned?
Flooding into its delta, along the coast.
Yes.
Yes, lower part of town.
Yes. and because level of upstream reservoir behind the dam lowered below main destruction, so the cross-section of the stream become smaller, so the water began to flow to the sea faster than it arrives from the breach.
Water level will come back to norm even if breach still be unrepaired. Dam itself hold most volume in reservoir, only water that was above breach streamed out.
So no land will become inhabitable. Most destruction and flood is from the giant initial wave. Hopefully it will pass eventually.
The problem I have is debilerate or accident.
There is an obvious advantage. Now who.
I am trying to understand the Ukrainian advantage. Their mindless rationality is suicidal. It uses acts of provocation to justify funding and further support, constantly trying to escalate the situation into a much larger conflict. Regardless.
However. There is reasoning. It could be on crossing, the Dniper somewhere. It could've been to sabotage, disrupt, provoke, and confuse. While launching an attack. It could be to affect the Crimea's water. But this is easily routed and still has water systems flowing despite the reservoir now levelling off to the river's water level, expanding the river flooding the run off and rising the river.
Although there is a distinct advantage defensively in wiping out a South Western approach. Kherson has no other point concurrently. It simply provides cover. Until presumably disaster.
There is a long term set back to Odessa's advance and approaches, but let's face it, there is zero chance of that concurrently. Karkiv would be a bigger prize, still ignored. Because it takes far more than a defensive position holding territory. Odessa does secure the coast. But Karkiv the border. Problematic Odessa won't be taken for some time. The odds before that occurring are significantly null. Prior to accession and or truce. Or who knows. Except it is a historic nightmare.
The odds are placing it as Russian damages. But there are more than odds. Factors to consider. Was the substation operational. If so why wasn't the dam repaired since, Ukrainian attacks, last year? Come on, if it was operational there wouldn't be the complete causation of its breach. As it wasn't at much capacity, no real maintenance, releasing the outflow, and generating productivity, the blame further falls on the occupier. It failed to maintain it through suggestive attacks. These could easily cite the rhetoric of terrorism having abundant proof on hand. It was generating output being disrupted.
But it still doesn't rule out sabotage. Why objectively. They're monkeys, okay. No, where is that advantage, outside of acts of bananas? Bananas name calling.
A river is natural geography, expanding it also provides a bigger border. But who knows. There's only irony. I could probably think of far more reasons. Unless you can provide facts of how it serves an opposing advantage?