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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Oh look. More war crimes

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

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Ha

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It won’t matter if they win,

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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.

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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

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

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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.

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

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Ocarina of Time

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And A Link to the Past actually

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

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I think FFIII had the world destroyed early on.

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

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

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Putin: Yes.

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

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

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He just wants mineral rights

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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.

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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.

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LITERALLY Kefka.

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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.

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For Doma!

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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.

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imaginary lines on ground

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