He stated that some 16,000 people on the right bank of Kherson are in the critical zone and that as of 7:30 a.m., nine settlements had been fully or partially flooded.
As it becomes apparent that the long-awaited Ukrainian counter offensive has begun there are fears that Putin may fall back on the tactics espoused by his role modal Josef Stalin, who in June 1941, in a radio address to the nation said:
An explosion at the destroyed Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plan.
