[eliotte]

> Britain is unwilling to apportion blame at this stage for the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine and is awaiting "all available facts", Foreign Secretary James Cleverly told AFP on Wednesday.

> "We're not going to say anything until we are completely armed with all the available facts. So we're going to err on the side of caution on this one," Cleverly said in an interview on the sidelines of a meeting at the OECD in Paris.

> He said that Russia bore ultimate responsibility for all events and destruction in the war, however, having initiated the conflict with its invasion in February last year.

> "It's clear that this event is a direct repercussion of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and there's nothing that Russia can do to hide that fact," he said.

[consumer451]

If Ukraine did this, I would be really curious how they accomplished the task.

As I understand the situation, the dam was designed to withstand external attack and the demolition would have required internal explosions. The dam was under Russian control at the time of the destruction.