An international investigation says the Nova Kachovka dam is “highly likely” by Russia abroad

Destroying the dam in Ukraine’s Kherson region was a “barbaric act”, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin, but evidence will now emerge that his country was behind the collapse. A team of international legal experts assisting Ukraine’s prosecutors in their investigation says it is “highly likely” that the dam collapsed due to explosives planted by the Russians.

The New York Times came to the same conclusion from their research. The newspaper said the destruction of the dam, which was occupied by Russia at the time, was an “inside job”. The newspaper quoted engineers and explosives experts in publishing and analyzing video clips, photos and satellite images of the dam.

look. According to Ukraine, this wiretapped phone call also proves that the dam was blown up by the Russians.

The report states that the dam was virtually indestructible to external forces such as bombing. Instead, the evidence suggests that explosives were placed in a passage through the dam’s concrete base, causing the dam to detonate from the inside, the Times writes. Because the dam was built in Soviet times, Moscow had all the pages of the engineering drawings and knew where the weak points were, the article said.

The engineers point out in the article that they can only determine the cause of the explosion with certainty after a full investigation of the dam after the water has been completely drained. “Erosion from the water flowing through the gates could have led to the collapse if the dam was poorly designed or the concrete was substandard, but engineers considered that unlikely,” the paper said.