Russia maintains that it wasn't behind the dam's collapse, accusing Ukraine of blowing it up to distract attention from a 'faltering' counteroffensive.
launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Ukraine's Armed Forces have been unable to access the dam and the power station since.
At 4 a.m. local time, the Russian-installed mayor of Kakhovka, Vladimir Leontiev told reporters that claims about theBut hours later Leontiev backtracked, saying that there were several strikes on the dam at about 2 a.m. local time. Later in the evening, Russian state media reported that shelling that took place at around 2 a.m. destroyed the upper part of the dam.
He said on June 6 that Ukraine was behind an attack on the facility, contradicting a report from Kherson journalist Kostyantyn Ryzhenko, who said on his Telegram channel that the hydroelectric power station"was blown up from the inside. No rocket or artillery could have caused such damage."
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