Nova Kakhovka: Who benefits from breaching the dam?
A huge dam in the Russian-occupied area of southern Ukraine has been breached, unleashing a flood of water downstream. So who benefits from this act of vandalism?
With both sides, Russia and Ukraine, blaming the other for breaching the dam, there are echoes of last year’s unexplained Nordstream gas pipeline explosions. In both cases western suspicions have immediately fallen on Russia. But both times Moscow has responded with: “It wasn’t us. Why would we do this? This hurts us”.
In the case of the Kakhovka dam breach Russia can point to at least two ways it damages their own interests. The flooding of land downstream has forced it to evacuate troops as well as civilians eastwards, away from Kherson and the banks of the broad River Dnipro. This will provide some limited respite for Kherson’s residents who have had to live with daily Russian artillery and missile strikes.
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