KYIV SAYS IT HAS PROOF RUSSIA WAS BEHIND KAKHOVKA DAM BLAST

A dog rescued by the emergency services in Kherson region, south Ukraine. Photo by Serhii Korovayny

Fri 09 June 2023:

Ukraine’s security service says it has intercepted a telephone call proving a Russian sabotage group blew up the Kakhovka dam.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) posted a short audio clip on its Telegram channel of the alleged conversation, which featured two men discussing the dam.

A one-and-a-half minute audio clip on its Telegram channel of the alleged conversation featured two unidentified men who appeared to be discussing the fallout from the disaster in Russian.

We are working at all levels of state and local authorities to rescue as many people as possible from the flooded areas. The evacuation is ongoing. Wherever we can get people out of the flood zone, we do so. The State Emergency Service, police and military are doing a great job!… pic.twitter.com/lTEHoReSY6

— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) June 9, 2023

In the conversation the first speaker starts by saying: “News. Yesterday there was a video in the Telegram channel – a soldier was standing there, his face covered, in his uniform. And he says there is no flooding, that people are living normally. And behind him there is a window and you can see knee-deep water.”

The second speaker says: “It’s funny. Is it about the fact that the hydroelectric power plant was destroyed?”

The conversation continued:

Speaker one: Yeah. The main problem is that the hydropower plant cools their nuclear reactor.

Speaker two: That’s fine. They did it to themselves. It’ll blow up and that’s it.

Speaker one: So our guys did it. It’s not them, it’s ours.

Speaker two: Really, it was ours? They said that the Khokhols [derogatory term for Ukrainians] blew it up.

Speaker one: They didn’t blow it up. Our saboteur group is there. They wanted to cause fear with this dam. It did not go according to the plan. More than they planned.

Speaker two: Yeah, well, naturally. It’s gonna be like Chornobyl, right?

Speaker one: Built in the 1950s. It went down fast, it went down.

Reuters reports the SBU did not offer further details of the conversation or its participants. It said it had opened a criminal investigation into war crimes and “ecocide”.

“The invaders wanted to blackmail Ukraine by blowing up the dam and staged a man-made disaster in the south of our country,” it said in a statement.

Russia and the officials it has imposed in occupied Ukraine have blamed Kyiv for destroying the dam but have offered no evidence, and varying conflicting explanations.

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