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Why blowing up Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam is a war crime
08/06/2023 05:57 PM | Click to read full article
Ukraine insists that Russia exploded the Nova Kakhovka dam earlier this week in a part of southern Ukraine currently occupied by the Kremlin’s forces. Russia claims the dam was a victim of sabotage by Ukraine. In times of war, humanity has an atrocious history in the way that it inflicts pain upon its opposition. And destroying structures like dams, which can cause excessive damage to both people and their surrounding environments, has been a sadly common practice for centuries.
