Russian officials from President Vladimir Putin to top diplomats have made false and misleading claims about the dam’s destruction, blaming it on Ukraine. Below are debunks of two leading Russian claims about the incident.
However, Russia’s “willful disregard for civilian life and infrastructure has been a hallmark of its military campaign,” Michael Carpenter, U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe,on June 6, calling the dam’s wrecking “an outrageous act of environmental destruction that will have profound humanitarian consequences.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone conversation that Ukraine blew up the Kakhovka dam on instructions from its “Western curators”: "The Kyiv authorities, at the suggestion of Western curators, continue making a dangerous bet on the escalation of hostilities. A clear example of this is the barbaric action to destroy the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station..."that the dam ruptured after being hit with what the Russian defense ministry believed was a Ukrainian “Olkha” multiple-missile launching system, which uses guided ammunition.
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