KYIV: Ukraine's domestic security service said on Friday (Jun 9) it had intercepted a telephone call proving a Russian 'sabotage group' blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric station and dam in southern Ukraine.
Russia and its proxy officials in Ukraine haveThe Security Service of Ukraine posted a one-and-a-half minute audio clip on its Telegram channel of the alleged conversation, which featured two men who appeared to be discussing the fallout from the disaster in Russian.
"They didn't strike it. That was our sabotage group," said one of the men, who the SBU described as a Russian soldier."They wanted to, like, scare with that dam."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," the SBU said in a statement.
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