Leonkov, the editor of Arsenal Otechestva, a Russian military affairs magazine, told Sputnik that the Kakhovka Dam attack aligns with the West's 'scorched earth' scenario for Ukraine.
A major catastrophe was unleashed along the southern banks of the Dnepr River Tuesday, with thousands of residents displaced after the Kakhovka hydroplant’s dam was destroyed and water gushed inland, flooding local settlements, forests, and farms. Sputnik asked two top Russian military analysts to answer a simple question: who benefits?
The fallout from Tuesday’s attack on the Kakhovka dam continues to mount, with the Kremlin characterizing the incident as a “barbaric act” ordered “at the suggestion of [Kiev’s] Western curators,” and a calamity which has unleashed a “large-scale environmental and human disaster.”
A US-based private Earth imaging company released before and after satellite photos showing the consequences of the flooding, with much of the town of Novaya Kakhovka in Russia's Kherso...