He Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) issued a recording of what ensures that it is a conversation between two russian soldiers in which participants say they are aware of the presence of a “group of sabajote” from his country that blew up the Kajovka dam “to scare” the Ukrainians.
“It is not they (the Ukrainians) who have attacked. A sabotage group of ours is there. They wanted to scare them with this prey. It didn’t go according to plan, it was worse than they planned.” says the conversation published this Friday by the kyiv secret service.
In the recording, the two soldiers also describe the flooding, the rising water level and the destruction caused in the Russian-occupied zone by the overflow caused by the destruction of the dam and the hydroelectric power plant of which it was a part.
The man also said that “thousands” of animals had died in a “safari park” downriver as a result.
The other man on the line expressed surprise at the soldier’s claim that Russian forces, who were occupying the dam following the full-scale invasion of Russia in February 2022, had destroyed the hydroelectric power station and the dam.
The SBU did not provide further details of the conversation or its participants. He said he had opened a criminal investigation for war crimes and “ecocide”.
“The interception by the SBU confirms that the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was blown up by a sabotage group of the occupiers,” the SBU said in a statement. “The invaders wanted blackmailed Ukraine by blowing up the dam and staged a man-made disaster in the south of our country.
Russia has denied any responsibility and accuses “the kyiv authorities” of destroying the dam. Ukraine, for its part, assures that the blasting of the dam with explosives could only be carried out from inside the infrastructure, to which only the Russian occupation forces have access.
(With information from EFE and Reuters)
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