Ukraine intercepts a telephone call proving a Russian “sabotage group” blew up the dam. Read more at straitstimes.com.
around the time it collapsed, according to Ukrainian and US intelligence reports and seismic data from Norway.
And US spy satellites detected an explosion at the dam, a US official was quoted as saying by the New York Times.– which had been in Russian hands since shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 – unleashed mass flooding, forcing thousands of residents to flee and wreaking environmental havoc.
The other man on the line expressed surprise at the soldier’s assertion that Russian forces had destroyed the dam.The SBU offered no further details of the conversation or its participants. It said it had opened a criminal investigation into war crimes and “ecocide”.
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