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Better call the Ukrainian farmers.
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)More genius moves, hu?
ck4829
(34,977 posts)PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)In the early days of Russias invasion, Ukrainian soldiers and civilians scrambled to assemble their defenses, seeking to make moving through the country as difficult as possible for Moscows 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 worlds 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, Ukraines 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/
FakeNoose
(32,356 posts)Just sayin'
VGNonly
(7,431 posts)the Germans flooded fields. Some paratroopers drowned.