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Edit: sorry, it is definitely not the same dam, as seen by comparing it to https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1665907533469581313

(NOT) Video of the actual explosion: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1665954209156460544/pu/...



- "it is definitely not the same dam"

It actually *is* the same dam — though a different incident from 2022.

-"Footage verified by the BBC shows the moment a huge explosion rocks Ukraine's Nova Kakhovka dam, near Kherson."

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-63607625 (12 November 2022)


This is an old video from November last year (when ruscists retreated from Kherson).


Posting a video that is old and not related, yet plausibly attached to a news campaign is a classic information warfare tactic.

Makes you wonder where the initial news source was from...?




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