Videos of Belgorod region residents asking for help have swept the internet.....
Some photographs show flooding across the second floor of the house and vehicles floating.
The source of all this was the Ukrainian drone bombing the Russian Bergorod dam.
The flood not only swallowed the border villages, but also flooded the Russian troops in the fortresses and battlefields of Wolfschansch, with several Russian troops directly disconnected and without grass.
Ukraine gave the operation a code name called “Stop, dam!” and the dam did not stand.
This wave of attacks also completely exposed the loopholes in Russia's local defense.
Floods flooded the trenches and trapped the Russians to death
Early on Friday local time, a Ukrainian drone first broke through the Russian air defense network and hit the Belgorod dam.
By Saturday morning, another round was completed and the defense of the dam was directly crushed.
In the middle of the dam, a 10 meters wide large mouth was torn, the yellow brown flood wrapped with stones and trees, and the downstream village of Sebekino was flooded in the blink.
Governor Gladkov said in an emergency statement that 12 villages had already become “water bodies” and thousands of people were busy evacuating.
But more severe than the civilian disaster was the complete collapse of the Russian defense line.
The Russian troops stationed on the Wolfchansk border were the most immediate victims.
It can be seen from the reconnaissance map issued by the Ukrainian army that the Russian bunkers originally hidden on the North Donets River were all flooded into "pools" by floods.
The trenches have also become mud ditches with stagnant water, with only the tops of the equipment soaked in the water exposed, and communication antennas swaying in the muddy water.
"The flood cut off all three Russian supply lines, and the troops surrounding Wolfchansk could not even send bullets in."
For the Russian military, the flood brought about not only the problems ahead, but also the long-term strategic passivity.
Wolfchansk was the key base of the Russian army in the direction of Kharkov, the fortresses and battlefields that were at the heart of the defense, now devastated by flooding, and could not be rebuilt in a short time.
Worse, the level of the North Donetsk river rose too high, the floating bridges could not stand up, and the old tanks and cannons, these heavy guys, were stuck on the other side of the river.
And the Ukrainian army had already had the opportunity to put anti-tank groups on the river side, and made it clear that it was necessary to "turn around to help", trapping the people inside, waiting for the outside to rescue and fight again.
From the dam to the power plant, the assault is more intense.
The dam bombing was not done alone, but was the beginning of the Ukrainian army's "blooming everywhere" raid plan.
The day after the dam burst, the Ukrainian Air Force dispatched fighter planes and accurately hit a gunpowder chemical plant in southern Russia with "Storm Shadow" missiles provided by the United Kingdom.
The scene was very scary. The gunpowder warehouse of the factory was burning into the sky, and black smoke floated hundreds of meters high.
The Ukrainian General Staff later confirmed that the factory was the core site for the Russian army to produce cannon bombs and rocket fuel, which directly reduced the supply of ammunition to the Russian front by 30 percent.
The strike against refineries has also struck the economic gateway of Russia, just as Trump announced sanctions on the Russian oil giant, the Ukrainian drone attacked the Liangzhan refinery in the name of Putin on Wednesday night.
This plant, which undertakes 12% of Russia's oil refining tasks, completely stopped as soon as it caught fire.
Data shows that, combined with previous strikes, one-fifth of Russia's refining capacity has been scrapped.
Gas stations in places such as Moscow and Belgorod have begun to limit the amount of fuel. No. 95 gasoline has increased by 5% in one day. The pressure of people to live and the army to fight is rising.
With the help of Western weapons, the Ukrainian army's raids were even more powerful. The "Storm Shadow" missile given by the United Kingdom can reach 250 kilometers and can be invisible. It has avoided the Russian S-400 air defense system several times.
The suicide drone used to blow down the dam, which costs tens of thousands of dollars, can accurately hit the key places of the dam.
The Ukrainian army now plays the "spending little money to do big things + fight more places together" route, targeting key points with low cost, and then jointly striking multiple targets.
Slowly deplete the Russian military's defensive capabilities and fighting capital, and floods are the "natural weapon" of this routine.
Moscow can’t stop.
From the dam on the border to the capital Moscow, the scope of the Ukrainian army's attacks is rapidly expanding to the core areas of Russia.
At the beginning of this month, 140 drones made up of the "bees group" attacked Moscow, killing one citizen, and aircraft across the city stopped flying.
In the early morning of Monday, the two major airports, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky, were urgently closed due to drone threats.
Russia said it had shot down 28 aircraft in five hours, but a few broke through the defense line and fell in the suburbs.
Moscow Mayor sobianin has no choice but to admit that the capital has entered a "normalized air defense alert" and the air defense system has to be activated dozens of times a day.
conclusion
The gap in the Belgorod Dam not only flooded the Russian army's trenches, but also tore open the loopholes in Russia's local defense.
For Russia, now it is not only necessary to block the dam and rescue the trapped soldiers, but also to re-establish the local air defense and supply lines. Everything is extremely urgent.
The chain reaction triggered by this wave of explosions has brought the Russian-Ukrainian conflict completely into the complex phase of "native mutual fighting".