The Kremlin has denied any involvement in the collapse of Ukraine's Kakhovka dam and blamed Kyiv, claiming it wants to block water access to Crimea.
though he did not expound on which offensive push he was referring to.
Thousands of people have begun evacuating from the surrounding areas, and concerns remain over how this will affect water supplies to numerous southern regions as well as the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. This satellite image provided by Planet Labs PBC shows an overview of the damage on the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine Tuesday, June 6, 2023.
Fox News Digital could not immediately verify who was responsible for the attack, and analysts from the Institute for the Study of War, which monitors closely the ground movements of both Russian and Ukrainian forces in the conflict, said it was"not ready to assess who or what is responsible for destroying the Kakhovka dam."
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