ussian forces are attacking dams in Ukraine with the intention to flood Ukrainian navy crossing factors amid issues about battlefield setbacks, UK intelligence has stated.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) stated in its every day briefing that the strikes had been “unlikely to have brought about important disruption to Ukrainian operations because of the distance between the broken dams and the fight areas”.
It stated Russian forces struck the Penchenihy dam on the Siverskyy Donets River with ballistic missiles or related weapons on Wednesday and Thursday after placing a dam close to Krivyy Rih in central Ukraine the earlier week.
The MoD stated: “Ukrainian forces are advancing additional downstream alongside each rivers. As Russian commanders turn out to be more and more involved about their operational setbacks, they’re most likely trying to strike the sluice gates of dams, with the intention to flood Ukrainian navy crossing factors.”
It comes as 1000’s of individuals are trying to go away Russia to neighbouring international locations to keep away from conscription.
Lengthy queues had been reported at Finland’s south-eastern border with Russia on Friday with the variety of Russians heading into the Nordic nation greater than doubling from per week in the past.
Related scenes had been reported on the border with Kazakhstan, which has additionally seen an elevated variety of arrivals from Russia.
The exodus got here after the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, introduced a conscription drive this week to ship extra troops to combat within the warfare in Ukraine.
Border guards in Finland stated about 7,000 folks entered from Russia on Thursday, round 6,000 of them Russian. This was a rise of 107 per cent in contrast with the identical day per week earlier, and the numbers are steadily rising.
Finnish land border crossings are one of many few entry factors into Europe for Russians after a string of nations shut their airspace to Russian planes in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
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