It is physically impossible to blow it up somehow from the outside, by shelling. This is a terrorist act directed against civilians - Ukrainians did it.'Īdditionally, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed Kyiv had sabotaged the dam, which supplied water to the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula, to deprive it of water, according to Politico.īut Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected the argument, stating instead to adherents at a summit that 'Russia has been controlling the dam and the entire Kakhovka HPP for more than a year. 'This crime,' Leontiev says, 'cannot be written off. On Tuesday, the Russian installed Mayor of Novaya Kakhovka, Vladimir Leontiev, accused Ukraine of blowing up its own dam.

The claims follow a similar trajectory made by Western officials in the past who accused Moscow of blowing up its own Nord Stream pipeline and sending a drone strike into the Kremlin.Īs per the Ukrainian government's statement, the Kremlin's objective was to inundate the Kherson region with flood waters to impede the mobility of Ukrainian tanks and personnel in the event of a counterattack. In the aftermath of the dam's destruction, numerous highly esteemed dignitaries, such as NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and EU High Representative Josep Borrell, came out accusing Moscow of intentionally destroying a dam in a region of Ukraine that is currently occupied by Russian forces. Ukraine is ready to restore and rebuild the territories liberated from Russian aggression.' 'Ukraine,' the Strategic Communications Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said, 'is equipped with all the necessary watercraft and pontoon bridge crossings for crossing water obstacles. Ukrainian officials on Tuesday insisted that the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam, which unleashed massive flooding - in the Russian-occupied Kherson region - won't stand in the way of Kyiv's counteroffensive.

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