Daily on Defense 🇺🇸 — Destruction of Russian-controlled dam multiplies the misery of hundreds of thousands in southern Ukraine.
AN ACT OF TERRORISM: Last October, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia was plotting a “false flag” operation to blow up the country’s largest hydroelectric dam, which would flood a large area of southern Ukraine, including Kherson, and cause a humanitarian and ecological disaster of epic proportions.
“Shhhhhh,” was the only message tweeted by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry as reports surfaced of Ukrainian forces advancing in eastern Donetsk province. Those reports included an unverified claim by Russia that Ukraine had suffered “significant losses: more than 250 servicemen, 16 tanks, 24 AFVs, including three Bradley FVs.” One report from the Russian Defense Ministry claimed 1,500 Ukrainian troops have been killed.
“Flooding will also limit or stop water supply to Crimea Canal , may affect cooling rods at the [Zaporizhzhia] nuclear plant and the already damaged Antonivsky Bridge,” he said.NUCLEAR PLANT IMPERILED: The reservoir that is now draining supplies water for cooling the fuel rods at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
“The risk is not immediate but could grow worse over the next few weeks,” tweeted Joe Cirincione, an arms control advocate and nuclear weapons expert. AUSTIN, ‘THERE WILL BE STOPS AND STARTS’: Both Austin and Milley spoke to reporters ahead of today’s D-Day ceremonies about Ukraine’s prospects as it embarks on its own D-Day.
“ISW has observed increased combat activity in different sectors of the frontline and assesses that Ukrainian forces are making territorial gains despite Russian claims to the contrary,” the ISW said on its Twitter feed. “@TheStudyofWar has indeed observed an increase in combat activity in different sectors of the frontline but will not speculate about or forecast the intent, weighting, or focus of Ukrainian counter-offensive operations.
“The feud between Wagner Group and the Russian MoD has reached an unprecedented level,” according to British intelligence. “This is about preventing war. And so the way you prevent war is not that we give cash to Ukraine, not that we put troops on the ground, but that we get with our allies and we make sure that we give them the equipment and the ammunition to win,” she continued. “Because when Ukraine wins, that sends a message to China with Taiwan. It sends a message to Iran that wants to build a bomb, sends a message to North Korea testing ballistic missiles. And it sends a message to Russia that it's over.
“There is no doubt in my mind these letters were written by some communist party hack in the agitprop bureau of the North Korean Workers Party,” Bold said on CNN Sunday. “They were filled with phrases like ‘your excellency’ and things like that.” Washington Examiner: Virginia plane crash: White House says six F-16 military jets rushed to scene caused a sonic boom
Forbes: Opinion: As Army Chief McConville Prepares To Depart, His Service Is In Its Best Shape In Decades8 a.m. — Center for a New American Security virtual conference: “American Power and Purpose,” with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg; U.S. Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith; and Bonnie Jenkins, undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs https://conference.cnas.
9 a.m. — Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies virtual discussion: “Building capability and capacity under budget constraints, and the critical importance of America's Airmen in great power competition," with Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., chief of staff of the Air Force https://mitchellaerospacepower.org/event
1 p.m. — Cato Institute virtual forum"Domestic Terrorism Versus Constitutional Speech," with Mike German, fellow at New York University's Center for Justice; Robert Pape, director of the University of Chicago's Project on Security and Threats; Thomas Berry, research fellow at Cato; and Patrick Eddington, senior fellow at Cato https://www.cato.
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