It is characteristic of armies at war to play with fire, but since the time that the Ukrainian conflict flirted with catastrophe, it had to happen. The waves pouring from the ripped Kakhovka Dam on the Dnieper are a reminder that red lines can never be crossed with impunity. The fighting that regularly jeopardizes the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is of the same order: one day or another, it will cause a radioactive leak - or much worse. It is not for nothing that the Geneva Conventions grant immunity in principle to those "works or installations containing dangerous forces", those which can no longer be controlled once the genie is out of its bottle.
Ukrainians and Russians blame each other for this "war crime", this "terrorist act" that threatens to drown dozens of towns, swallow the homes of 16,000 people and destroy an entire ecosystem. It is unfortunately futile, at this stage, to claim to certify the sequence...
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