Dear Readers, there is reporting and there is sarcasm.

Ukrainians have, for 8 years, and throughout this campaign, accused, first the Donbass people, and now the Russian troops, of shelling themselves. Look, "Donetsk is shelling itself! Lugansk is killing itself! Russians are manufacturing false flags! Russian are trying to blow up the Zaporozhye NPP!", and so on and so forth. Ukrainian authorities and propagandists are masters of lies, deception, and fabricating falsehoods.

It is therefore understandable that, now that critical hits are being scored against Ukrainian infrastructure, some (many) Russian Telegram channels are sarcastically ironizing about the strikes on the Karachun dam: "The Ukrainians did it to themselves!"

Do not be confused. There is no contradiction. There is anger and frustration erupting into bitter humour.

@Slavyangrad
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