RE: Zelenskiy thanks UK...........6 Jun 2023 09:39
There's been no carpet bombing in this campaign by either side, no wave of bombers anywhere.
If a town, where usually 95% of the population has already left, is occupied by one side and the other side wants to take it from them they will attack using lots of shelling to remove those forces. The longer those forces try to stay there the more they will be shelled. Over weeks, even months the shelling will slowly destroy the entire town if the defenders insist on staying there , moving backwards street by street until there are no more streets to retreat too or they are all dead.
Bakmut springs to mind. If the defenders wanted any part of a town to survive they would merely need to leave that area as soon as it was clear they were out manned and out gunned (so about a year ago in Bakmut's case).
If say Kiev wanted the winning side to inherit only a pile of rubble, and it doesn't care how many of their own men they sacrifice to ensure this, then they will keep their men there until the whole place has been shelled. This is not 'carpet bombing'.
Be sure to revise this for your homework later. ;)
So now Kiev are projecting that Russia has destroyed a 'Ukrainian Dam', (note spelling Troj).
The dam in question was under Russian control and was built by Russia prior to Ukraine's existence in that area, and it's destruction will affect mostly the Russian controlled area with majority Russian population, make the Dnipro easier to cross for the Ukis, will flood and so force the abandonment the 1st line of russian defences to the south and sweep away mine fields, not to mention the risks to the NPP (under russian control) further down river ( they claim they have that covered though), so yeah, definitely russia destroying their own defences and not a Ukrainian war crime, sure.