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Russia is suspected of deliberately leaking chemical waste into a river, with deadly consequences for wildlife

Serhiy Kraskov picked up a twig and poked at a small fish floating in the Desna River. “It’s a roach. It died recently. You can tell because its eyes are clear and not blurry,” he said. Hundreds of other fish had washed up nearby on the river’s green willow-fringed banks. A large pike lay in the mud. Nearby, in a patch of yellow lilies, was a motionless carp. “Everything is dead, starting from the tiniest minnow to the biggest catfish,” Kraskov added mournfully.

Kraskov is the mayor of the village of Slabyn, in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region. The rustic settlement – population 520 – escaped the worst of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion. But the war arrived last week in a new and horrible form. Ukrainian officials say the Russians deliberately poisoned the Seym River, which flows into the Desna. The Desna connects with a reservoir in the Kyiv region and a water supply used by millions.

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[–] [email protected] 147 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seems like a big one. Maybe this time someone will react?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago

It won't matter if they win,

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Jesus fucking christ literal real life Kefka Palazzo shit going on. Even the cartoonishly evil villains of 90s era video games are eclipsed by the outrageous fuckery of the heinous clowns you find in real life.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I hate that this was my first thought... but just in case no one else was aware of this literal classic moment in gaming villain history...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good one. You've left your si in there though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

thx. fixed.

Also, what a fucking piece of shit Google is for doing that. I fucking hate them so goddamn much.

I immediately installed this extension in Firefox to auto-strip that out from now on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ffvi is the best of them all. What other game has the villain winning half way through and taking over the world.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

And A Link to the Past actually

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ugh i never finished it as a kid so i completely forgot about it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Kefka was classier than Ganondorf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

DQXI is a good one if you're into the villain winning the first round.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think FFIII had the world destroyed early on.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I think Putin needs to decide whether or not he wants to take Ukraine or destroy Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Putin will burn everything down as long as he can be the king of the ashes.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

Putin: Yes.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

It seems pretty clear that if he can't have it, he'll do his best to make sure nobody else can either.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

When Russia can't have something, they try to destroy it. Typical Russian culture.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He just wants mineral rights

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

He wants the land to control food sources for the EU and parts of Asia.

Food, water and shelter -- the three things humans need to survive, and the three things rich assholes have decided to corner the market on.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is about a lot more than minerals and resources, and while you can't extricate those motivations from the larger rational, first and foremost this war was about regime security, or at least Putin's perception on the issue.

And then when it hit a brick wall almost immediately, it really increased Putin's concerns about his regime security.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

HAS THE BETRAYING OF GENERAL LEO AND THE MASSACRE OF DOMA TAUGHT US NOTHING

The returners should have never agreed to "peace talks" in Vector; they should have burnt it to the fucking ground when they had a chance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Humans are the most intelligent beings stupid enough to kill themselves and everything with them. They worst enemy is their need to fuck things up coz of lines on ground.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

imaginary lines on ground

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Inb4 tankies explain that Russia was just helping the aquatic life mutate faster to help them survive the coming nuclear annihilation Putin has on order and how it's a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

You can't set the bar too low for trash like putin and his sycophants.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

News report - Date unknown

In the early days of the war the Russian regime made regular threats to use nuclear weaponry, but most experts and lay-people believed that even that brutally sadistic despot would not go the extreme of destroying the earth to achieve his goals.

By 2024 Russia was doing small-scale ecocide in hopes of lending credence to their threats. Looking back, the poisoning of an entire riparian ecosystem connected to the Desna River in what was Ukraine should have been a clear signal of what was to come. But nobody listened and the nuclear weapons flew.


I am not making a joke here. This is where my brain naturally went when reading this. Let's just hope my invasive thoughts are wrong.

[Edit: I am also not saying to appease this fucking psycho either. This is just a snippet of thought that I felt the urge to share.]