The dam was under Russian control. Ukraine wouldn't have had any opportunity to place demolition charges.
Russia has demonstrated that it is;
- willing to level cities with hundreds of thousands of inhabitants
- willing to use torture, abduction, rape as systematic weapons of war
- willing to indiscriminately attack civilians
- willing to use banned weapons of war
Despite war crimes obviously (d'oh) happening on both sides of the conflict, the Russian leadership has made it evidently clear that is more than happy to unleash any amount of terror, pain, misery and suffering to get what it wants. The Russian leadership is perfectly a-ok to systematically use all of the aforementioned as weapons.
I've not seen this callousness from the Ukrainian leadership.
Russia has demonstrated that it is; - willing to level cities with hundreds of thousands of inhabitants
- willing to use torture, abduction, rape as systematic weapons of war
- willing to indiscriminately attack civilians
- willing to use banned weapons of war
Despite war crimes obviously (d'oh) happening on both sides of the conflict, the Russian leadership has made it evidently clear that is more than happy to unleash any amount of terror, pain, misery and suffering to get what it wants. The Russian leadership is perfectly a-ok to systematically use all of the aforementioned as weapons.
I've not seen this callousness from the Ukrainian leadership.