Ukraine has released images purporting to show a car packed with explosives parked on the Kakhovka Dam before it was bombed, unleashing the river on settlements below, leading to serious flooding.
The Kakhovka Dam was bombed earlier this month, causing the Soviet-era structure holding back the Dnipro/Dnieper, one of Europe’s major rivers to flood downstream. Given the colossal volume of water released fatalities have been mercifully comparatively limited, with the Ukrainian government speaking of 17 killed as a consequence of the attack, and a further 31 missing.
While both sides accused each other of blowing the dam, Ukraine has published a new piece of evidence to favour the Russian hypothesis. Noting the dam and surrounding area was occupied by Russian forces at the time of the blast, “Ukrainian officials” speaking through American wires service the Associated Press says a new photograph showing a parked car packed with explosives on the dam proves the case.
