June 8, 2023

WHERE ARE THE GREENPEACES AND ANGRY FIST-WAVING LITTLE GRETAS OF THE WORLD NOW?

On the 468th day of the war waged by the putin's russian federation against sovereign Ukraine rushists treacherously and intentionally blew up the Kakhovka Dam and its hydroelectric power station causing an untold human and ecological disaster the scope of which is yet to be fully calculated and comprehended. 

According to the magnetometer reading detected in Bucharest, Romania at the precise moment of the explosion at around 00:04 am (3:04 am local time) on June 6, 2023 the impact was registered as an earthquake-like magnetic anomaly.  Science-prone experts would quickly surmise from this factor alone that the explosion of such magnitude could occur only from within the depths of the building with an aid of multiple explosive devices and not at all by any external bombing as it is claimed by the putin's propaganda media contractors.  In fact, it appears Ukrainian Armed Forces do not even possess any such weapons capable of the destruction force of this magnitude of a power-plant designed to withstand a nuclear strike.  

Unfortunately, even the so-called ‘democratic countries’ media outlets repeat the fakes imbedded by the kremlin in the multiple media sources, sprinkling lies across the free world which stories are devoid of any analytical approach and fair questioning of the proposed material. Thus, some blogs and even seasoned published western reporters, names of whom should quickly escape one’s mind, eagerly and hastingly spread half-baked lies, half-truths and under-statements about this and other events of this horrific war thus adding to the fake reporting already plaguing our democracies.  Failure to tell the truth from a lie and deliberate publication of unverified and/or fake tales is the biggest and the foremost weapon against any democracy.  It corrupts and it is deadly for any society.  This is precisely why the kremlin resorts to it. Hence, this independent account.

While the White House and United Nations are still massaging the lingo, and breaking their arms expressing ‘concerns’ while being hesitant to make obvious conclusions about the supposed ‘causes’ of the collapse of the Kakhovka Dam, despite the series of cold facts staring in their very faces since the beginning of this horrible war waged by putin and his junta, very little doubt remains among analytical minds able to string those facts together into a sequence that speaks volumes about the intentional nature of this ecological and human catastrophe.  Here’s why I believe those facts unequivocally prove that putin and putin’s army forces, and only them, are behind this man-made tragedy.  For the sake of a reference point, one must understand that Kakhovskaya reservoir is the size of the great Salt Lake in Utah. The Kakchovka hydroelectric station produced 1.4 TWh per annum and was built during Cold War era in 1955. It operated until it was damaged by putin's army army in February of 2023. Ukrainian forces were not able to retake the Kachovka in time to prevent this disaster. Today it is completely destroyed and under water.

That the Dam and the power station was intentionally blown up by the rushist invaders is a matter of an almost fully established sequence of undeniable facts in my mind - the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric station and its structures were taken by the invaders as part of the entire Zaporizhian area at the outset of the war waged by them. The world remembers the horrors of the reports resulting from the putin army's strikes of Zaporizhian Nuclear Power station at the same time as the Kakhovskaya power plant was occupied by the invaders shortly after beginning of the war and held on to its until its retreat from the right bank of the Dnipro river in November 2022.  During its occupation of the plant and the adjoining Dam putin's junta boasted about their mining of the area and military equipment was observed going in and out of the power plant by the Ukrainian and western intelligence sources throughout the occupation.  In early February 2023 western media outlets (Feb.10, 2023, NPR) reported the draining of the Kakhovka reservoir by putin’s army at which time water has been gushing out through the sluice gates endangering not only viability of the Kakhovka power plant but also the Zaporizhian Nuclear Plant which depended on the water source from the reservoir for its cooling systems and imperiling drinking water, agricultural production for nearly half a million acres of farmland and overall safety of the Europe’s largest power plant.  The potential consequences of destruction of the dam were made known at that point. All these events took place during putin army’s occupation of the area.

On November 10, 2022 putin's propaganda was reporting the complete destruction of the Antonov Bridge and the access bridge to the Kakhovskaya power station during their retreat from the right bank of the Dnipro river.  As part of their propaganda during those maneuvers putin's media henchmen were spreading fakes about Ukrainian armed forces allegedly planning to ‘blow up’ the Dam as part of their legend about the retreat of the putin's army at that time. Yet, putin's military was the only entity controlling that territory and capable of its mining.  After rushists’ retreat Ukrainian forces were not able to retake the power plant and the dam because they remained under artillery barrages and constant fire by the putin's army. That situation persisted until rushists blew up the dam on June 6, 2023.

For at least two weeks prior to and immediately following the blowing up the Dam on June 6, 2023 putin’s invaders were actively evacuating some of their own soldiers and equipment. At that point they seized all boats and other flotation devices from the still remaining population of the Kherson’s left bank. Immediately after the explosions caused by them all of the towns and villages on the left side of the bank of the Dnipro became immediately susceptible to extreme flooding and, in fact, began to quickly sink.  Yet, invaders, having seized all floatation devices from the citizens of those towns did not begin any evacuation efforts and did not permitted the population to leave the area on their own, leaving people, animals and life to die.  When the Ukrainians from the right side of the Dnipro attempted to reach to people stranded on their roofs, putin's military opened fire and shelled them during any rescue attempts. The shelling of any attempts to save survivors continues into this very moment.

Ukrainian official sources posted media reflecting people screaming for help to the Ukrainian drones, which flew over to the left bank to assess the situation and to deliver water to those they saw stranded, however, Ukrainian forces were not able to physically get to most of those people to rescue them to safety.  Those who tried to make there by boats were subjected to rushists’ fire and shelling. The scope of human losses is yet to be determined, however even pro-putin social media outlets published horrifying accounts of bodies floating in the rushing waters of Kachovka reservoir which spilled over to flood at least 80 towns and villages.  

Among the innocent casualties were multitude of animals, including caged animals in Khaskova Dibrova Zoo which went completely under water.  It is believed that 300 innocent animal lives could not be saved because putin's army mined all accesses to the cages.  Only some birds were able to survive. The putin media currently denies the zoo even existed.  It is unknown how many domesticated and wild animals drowned in this disaster. This is not the first instance of ecocide committed by rushists against Ukrainian flora and fauna.  In March of 2022 they caused destruction of 4.4 million of chickens at chicken farms by energy blackouts.  During occupation of the animal sanctuary and nature preserve Oskania Nova rushists intentionally destroyed rare animals boasting about their ‘trophies’ in social media.  During these months of war more than 50,000 dolphins died from rushists' mines, submarine and sonar activities in the Black Sea. They destroyed dozens zoos, nature reserves and sanctuary lands. In March of 2022 the rushists disconnected critical electrical feed to the nuclear sites of Chernobyl and dug trenches in the radioactive woods in its immediate vicinity.  During their retreat from that territory later that year rushists left radioactive traces all over Ukraine, all the way to Byelorussia. The list of such crimes keeps going on and on. The act of destruction of the Kachovka Dam is an event of mass destruction which can easily be named not only an act of genocide but of ecocide with untold consequences. This is precisely why Ukrainians coined the term ‘rushists’ to describe putin’s junta and his army. Ukraine experienced fascist Germany occupation during WWII - and russian fascists turned out to be worse than them, they say. 

As a result of this catastrophe large parts of the Dnipro adjoining the reservoir began to rapidly lose its water revealing and killing fish and other living creatures.  The scope of this disaster is still unknown because the situation is changing by the hour.  Today, while it is still June 6th, 2023 here in the USA - in the morning of June 7, 2023 in Ukraine - official channels report that 600 km square kilometers of the Kherson region are under water, of which 32% is on the right bank of the Dnipro and 68% of the left bank.  Ukraine was able to evacuate most of its endangered population on the controlled by them right side of the bank of the Dnipro river.  The fate of many on the left side is yet to be determined.  However even those people who are managing to evacuate are subjected to merciless shelling from the rushists.  In the occupied territory of Oleshki people are spending their second day on the rooftops. The exact number of those who did not make it is yet to be ascertained, however it is known that in that area alone there remain at least 1162 children.  In fact, almost all of that population is comprised of the most vulnerable: children, elderly, women. 

Despite the scope of this ecological tragedy comparable to the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster, the headlines of the western media are reserved and non-committed.  The United Nations have seemingly ignored the tragedy on June 6 2023 altogether, which day by some horrific twisted irony was proclaimed on their website as ‘a day of Russian language’, without any mention of the catastrophe, and the bleak statement by its chief administrative officer Antonio Guterres managed to contain only a very general and vague statement without assigning any responsibility for the event specifically to kremlin.  As of now neither Red Cross nor United Nations responded to Ukrainian requests to send help with evacuation of the trapped population on the occupied territories where Ukrainian forces are unable to reach due to constant shelling from rushists. Who needs such entities that are unable and/or unwilling to fulfil their duties?  As of the monents of editing this article putin's army is once again sending bombs and rockets to kill peaceful people making it impossible for any rescue efforts to continue.  The water levels at the Kakhovskaia reservoir is now below critical levels.  Yet western media is still silent, petrified to tell the truth about fascism, racism, terrorism, genocide and ecocide being committed by the kremlin.  

It appears that those who were vested with the obligations for the world security, humanitarian aid and advocacy for the innocent are sitting this one out.  Silence about causes for this catastrophe is also held by those who were professionally trained to analyze facts and string them together into stories - western media has shunned itself from speaking out the horrible truth behind this disaster and others like it.  Is this another attempt to save the face of kremlin? Does western media still fail to understand that putin, his junta and only them are behind this horrible tragedy? Why is this learning curve so difficult to overcome? Is western world still afraid of the paper tiger that russian federation turned out to be? Why? Don't we have all sorts of military means to end this horror oncec and for all? 

And where are the Greenpeaces and the waving fists Gretas NOW, in the face of this massive ecological disaster? 

Written by Svitalana Kobsar

THE BEST THE WORLD CAN DO RIGHT NOW IS TO GIVE UKRAINIANS EVERYTHING THEY NEED, EVERYTHING THEY ASK FOR, SO THAT THEY CAN ATTAIN THEIR VICTORY, LIBERATE ALL OF THEIR LAND AND STOP THIS GENOCIDE, ECOCIDE AND INTOLERABLE MURDER OF THE INNOCENT.  

PLEASE SUPPORT UKRAINE IN THEIR EFFORTS TO PROTECT DEMOCRACY, FREEDOM, SOVEREIGNTY AND INDEPENDENCE FROM DICTATORSHIPS LIKE PUTIN'S. YOUR HELP WILL PROTECT NOT ONLY UKRAINIANS BUT ALL FREE PEOPLE  OF THE WORLD AND SEND A POWERFUL MESSAGE TO OTHER DICTATORS THAT THEIR WAR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND SOVEREIGNTY WILL NEVER BE TOLERATED. VISIT HEARTS FOR UKRAINE TO SEE HOW YOU CAN HELP.  THANK YOU.