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Is there a link to Magyar's funding effort? That 2016 Dnieper crossing must have been done on a much wider river. With the dam down and the river in her ancient banks, who knows what could happen??? Слава Україні!

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its been a while and nothing happened, so probably not much.

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That is down the river from the damn. So it is not as regulated as before, but it shouldn't have changed much.

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I've been told by a reader that without the dam, the water level and width of the river fluctuates with the seasons. In the fall the river is narrow and in the spring it is wider.

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how would they know? just a common sense and prediction. But there have been no spring yet without the dam.

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Based on knowledge of events before 1956, before the dam was built.

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well. i can tell you a lot has changed here (and any other place) since 1956. In general rivers became more shallow, narrow and spring floods are both inconsistent and hard to predict. So i would take such statements very accurately.

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For funding, it's best to contact the unit directly. There are pinned messages inside the Telegram channel with information.

https://t.me/robert_magyar/679?fbclid=IwAR3vQKHAeQYWcBV6DO-BrB3Ajpgc7bk1uwq9imEVwzy7I6WenoOy4hi5cOs

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Thank you.

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Have anybody read "Polska na wojnie" already? https://twitter.com/FilippDM/status/1724171496552063182 . How plausible is the following exerpt?

In the end, Warsaw got tired US indecision and reluctance, and acted independently. Dismantled around 10 🇵🇱MIG-29 fighter jets and left them in parts, in a forest belt near the border. Kyiv was notified about "ownerless" parts, which were then picked up and quickly assembled on the Ukrainian side of the border. That happened months(!) before the official transfer of jets in a larger international coalition.

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Nope, but yes: it does sound very plausible (at least to me, and on basis of thingies I know, but can't talk about).

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at times a feel so detached from reality...

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Thanks Don #2 read on to #3

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The following videos didn't make it into this post:

In the Kherson section, a video showing the destroyed railroad bridge, how easy it is to cross and what some of the terrain looks like on the left bank.

https://youtu.be/2QQY1Li2dBA

In the Kherson section, a video showing how pontoon and scissor bridges are deployed.

https://youtu.be/MZFci2TP55g

Magyar showing how the evacuation carts are built and used.

https://youtu.be/TmGndV1I5wY?t=693

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Thank you!

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Excellent reporting!!

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