Ukrainian Intelligence publishes a recording that would prove Russian sabotage at the Kakhovka dam

Russia denies any responsibility and accuses “the kyiv authorities” of destroying the dam. Ukraine claims that blasting could only be carried out from inside

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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) today released a recording of what it says is a conversation between two Russian soldiers in which the participants say they are aware of the presence of a Russian “gang of wackos” who blew up the dam. Kajovka “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 dam. It did not go according to plan, it was worse than they planned,” says the conversation published this Friday by the secret service. from Kiev.

In the recording, the two soldiers also describe the flooding, the rising water level and the destruction caused in the Russian-occupied area by the overflow caused by the destruction of the dam and the hydroelectric power plant of which it was a part.

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.