A Destroyed Dam Alters the War in Ukraine

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Flooding between Russian invaders and Ukrainian defenders might complicate any counteroffensive, to say nothing of the humanitarian disaster. Plus, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy spar over whether supplemental military funds must fit under the debt-ceiling deal's spending caps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Three, two, one.
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0:15.5	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:24.5	A major dam in Russian occupying Ukraine is destroyed as the defending forces prepared
0:30.2	a launch account or offensive.
0:32.6	And meanwhile in Washington, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy spar over supplemental
0:37.4	defense appropriations.
0:39.8	Welcome on Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:42.9	We are joined today by my colleagues editorial board member Jillian Melcher in London and columnist
0:49.2	Kim Strassel.
0:50.9	The video and images coming out of Ukraine have been harrowing for more than a year now,
0:54.8	but the latest is water rushing out of a reservoir through the remains of a hydroelectric dam
1:01.5	and pouring it into nearby settlements.
1:03.9	This is a humanitarian disaster and Jillian.
1:07.1	Can you give us a sense of where this dam is, what the importance of it is, and what
1:11.8	we know about what's happening on the ground?
1:14.1	Yes.
1:15.1	So this is a dam just outside of Kursol and southern Ukraine.
1:18.8	It had about 18 million cubic meters of water.
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