Gravitas | Ukraine war just turned extreme: Here's why

has Ukraine slipped into a total war and No Holds Barred form of warfare where every action is acceptable where every Target is legitimate unaccepted rules just do not apply well the answer is a resounding yes look at what happened on Tuesday Ukraine's fifth largest dam Nova kakovka was destroyed prompting Mass evacuations and large-scale Devastation and 48 Hours on the scale of Destruction is starting to become clear in some places scores of mines have been uprooted by the flood waters the Red Cross in fact saying this could pose a grave danger to civilians for years to come and in other places rescue workers are facing intense shelling in fact earlier today at least three people were wounded in Russian shelling as they were trying to evacuate people from Carson not just that flood waters have also engulfed towns on both sides of the Nito River in some places the flooding is so severe that people are living on their rooftops and the Deluge has also left thousands without access to clean drinking water and swarmed tens of thousands of hectares of agricultural land when the floods subside these lands risk become deserts risk becoming deserts and why is that because the water is polluted Ukraine says 150 tons of machine oil has already leaked into the nepro and that is a risk that another 300 tons could further pollute the river and this could spark a large-scale humanitarian and environmental disaster across Southern Ukraine aren't all of these signs of a total war a war where everything is off the table you see until now this war was said to be a military operation where both sides Target each other's military installations not civilian infrastructure the destruction of the dam the critical Dam in Ukraine has changed this it kind of marks a turning point in a sense that now that Ukraine has begun its counter-offensive and it will be remembered most likely was this first kind of intentional by whatever side destruction of critical civilian infrastructure because so far there have been many incidents but this is a major one you see it marks a major violation of the Geneva Convention the Geneva Convention and additional protocols shaped by International courts say that parties involved in her military conflict must distinguish between civilian objects and Military objectives the protocols explicitly ban wartime attacks on civilian installations containing dangerous forces like hydroelectric dams due to the risk posed to civilians and this Prohibition in the convention has been sent for a toss in fact why just the Geneva Convention in recent months every other convention has also been broken by both sides the breacher started with the explosion of the Crimean Bridge on the 8th of October last year it witnessed a massive explosion the bridge is too lean vehicular spans collapsed into the water and who did this all evidence pointed towards Ukraine and why did it blow up the bridge if it did to prevent Russian troops from advancing into Ukraine it wasn't that also an attack on civilian infrastructure and a month before this in September 2022 the north stream natural gas pipelines were bombed rendering most of the gas supply from Russia to Germany ineffective and who blew up these Pipelines well the perpetrators identities and the motive behind the sabotage remain debated but most investigations and documents have hinted towards the involvement of Ukraine in fact two days back this report emerged it said that leaked Pentagon people suggests that it was Ukraine that sabotaged the line a group of a group of investigators in Germany have reiterated these claims they have even identified six Ukrainian individuals who carried out the attack wasn't this also a violation of the Geneva Convention and shouldn't Ukraine be held accountable for this we are in June 2023 now the Nova kakovka Dam has been destroyed Ukraine wants the Dam's destruction to be investigated as a war crime it is blaming the destruction on quote unquote Russian terrorists but did the Russians really do it the Kremlin you see is accusing Kiev of deliberately sabotaging the dam and why is that to distract attention from a perpetedly faltering counter-offensive against Russian forces that's the Russian version so who is speaking the truth who is the real culpriter perhaps we'll have to wait for an independent investigation to get us some clarity but whoever is responsible for the destruction is trying to force the principles of humanity backwards to a point where acts against civilians acts that can cause indiscriminate and disproportionate damage become acceptable and where one such act occurs Others May soon follow we are now available in your country download the app now get all the updates on the move

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Id: a93KDZ0I0jg

Length: 6min 22sec (382 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 08 2023