Two pieces of evidence bolster case that Russia blew up dam
Two potentially important pieces of evidence have emerged in the past few hours which bolster the case that Russia was responsible for blowing up the dam at Nova Kakhovka in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Norsar, the Norwegian Seismic Array, says that it has analysed seismic signals from a regional station in Bukovina in Romania (620km away from Nova Kakhovka).
The signals indicate an explosion at 02.54 on Tuesday.
According to Norsar, the timing and location coincide with the collapse of the dam.
Separately, Ukraine’s domestic security service (SBU) has released a recording of what they say is a phone conversation between two unnamed Russian military men, discussing how Russia was responsible for blowing up the dam.
In the recording, which the BBC cannot verify, one says a Russian sabotage group was responsible, but that the explosion went further than expected.
The suggestion that the dam’s collapse was the result of a botched Russian sabotage operation has been circulating since earlier this week.
Now Ukraine says it has evidence.
"The invaders wanted to blackmail Ukraine," the SBU says, "by blowing up the dam and staging a man-made disaster in the south of our country". BY THE STAR
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