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Column of tanks drove close by the river and all got stuck in the mud (Original Post) Swede Mar 2022 OP
Hahaha! SheltieLover Mar 2022 #1
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Satellite images show flooding north of Kyiv in possible sign of 'hydraulic warfare' PA Democrat Mar 2022 #3
The best way to not get stuck in the mud is to NOT INVADE Ukraine FakeNoose Mar 2022 #4
During the D-Day Invasion VGNonly Mar 2022 #5

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3. Satellite images show flooding north of Kyiv in possible sign of 'hydraulic warfare'
Thu Mar 10, 2022, 06:08 PM
Mar 2022

In the early days of Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian soldiers and civilians scrambled to assemble their defenses, seeking to make moving through the country as difficult as possible for Moscow’s forces.

They blew up bridges, used buses as makeshift roadblocks and welded homemade “Czech hedgehogs” to repel Russian tanks. And, according to a new set of satellite images, they may have also used one of the world’s oldest methods of fortification: water.

Photographs from Planet Labs PBC, an American firm, and other researchers appear to show a large expanse of flooded land north of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. In a pair of before and after images, taken on Feb. 22 and Feb. 28, the swath of territory becomes significantly more sodden.


On Feb. 26, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States said Russian forces had destroyed a dam in a water reservoir near Kyiv, creating a flood risk, but did not provide further details. It is not clear if that incident is related to the water seen on the satellite photos.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/09/ukraine-intentional-flooding/




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