- Russians closed all the release valves weeks before the Kakhova dam was blown up - so the water pressure would be very high, and the damage would be greater - and then ordered their forces to pull back their artillery and vehicles just before the blast.
- Without the water (delivered by canals) from the reservoir, 3 oblasts will be unable to produce the agricultural goods that the Ukrainian economy depends on.
- Eco-cide
- Shaping the battle space
- Politics of Energy
- Politics of Hunger
- Scorched earth
"Unless Russia can mobilize least another 4 or 5 hundred thousand people, and have a third party supplier of weapons, they will not be able to do any major offensive operations in the future"
