{"id":1945841,"date":"2023-06-06T18:45:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-and-ukraine-play-dam-explosion-blame-game-white-house-still-assessing\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:46:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:46:39","slug":"russia-and-ukraine-play-dam-explosion-blame-game-white-house-still-assessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-and-ukraine-play-dam-explosion-blame-game-white-house-still-assessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia and Ukraine blame each other for dam explosion, White House assessing."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-and-ukraine-play-dam-explosion-blame-game-white-house-still-assessing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1945841&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Explosion at Major Dam in Southern Ukraine Sparks Accusations and Evacuations<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>The United States has not determined who is responsible for the explosion that broke a major dam in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, leading to the evacuation of thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-and-ukraine-play-dam-explosion-blame-game-white-house-still-assessing\/\" title=\"Russia and Ukraine blame each other for dam explosion, White House assessing.\">people amid concerns<\/a> of significant flooding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ukrainian and Russian leaders have accused one another of being responsible for the attack that occurred at the Nova Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River, which separates both countries&#8217; troops. Videos of the dam following the explosion showed a major gap in the dam and overwhelming amounts of water cascading through the break.<\/p>\n<h3>Accusations and Concerns<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen the reports that Russia was responsible for the explosion at the dam, which I would remind, Russian forces took over illegally last year and had been occupying since then,&#8221; national security council coordinator John Kirby told reporters on Tuesday afternoon. &#8220;We&#8217;re doing the best we can to assess those reports and we are working with Ukrainians to gather more information, but we cannot say conclusively what happened at this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the attack &#8220;the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-dam-destroyed-zelensky-calls-it-mass-environmental-destruction\/\" title=\"Zelensky labels Ukraine dam destruction as 'environmental disaster'.\">largest man-made environmental disaster<\/a> in Europe in decades,&#8221; whereas Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused Kyiv of an act of &#8220;deliberate sabotage,&#8221; and said Ukraine sought to destroy the dam in part to cut off the water supply from the river to Crimea, the southern peninsula of Ukraine that Russia annexed nearly a decade ago.<\/p>\n<h3>Potential Devastation<\/h3>\n<p>The dam is located in the southern part of the country. The Zaporizhzhia power plant, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-launches-largest-air-assault-of-ukraine-invasion\/\" title=\"Russia Launches Largest Air Assault of Ukraine Invasion\">largest nuclear power plant<\/a> in Europe, is upstream from the dam and not at immediate risk of damage, while the city of Kherson, which had 300,000 residents before the war, is downstream and at risk of significant flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Leontyev, the Russian-appointed mayor of the city of Nova Kakhovka, said on Russian state television, &#8220;The city is flooded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The collapse of the dam, which powers Ukraine\u2019s Kakhovka hydro-electric power plant, could \u201cvery well have a devastating impact on Ukraine&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-gop-passes-legislation-to-prevent-fracking-ban\/\" title=\"Senate GOP passes legislation to prevent fracking ban\">energy security<\/a>, and it will certainly have an impact on Ukraine&#8217;s canal system,\u201d Kirby said, noting that they have been in touch with Ukrainian leaders regarding humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko said he thinks there could be up to 80 settlements affected in both Ukrainian-held and Russian-occupied territory, according to CNN.<\/p>\n<h3>Counteroffensive and Warning<\/h3>\n<p>The move comes as Ukraine is beginning its counteroffensive to regain territory in the south and east under Russian occupation. Some Ukrainian officials have suggested the attack on the dam was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-will-not-allow-reporters-to-tour-child-migrant-detention-facilities-cite-covid-19\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Will Not Allow Reporters To Tour Child Migrant Detention Facilities, Cite COVID-19\">move made<\/a> &#8220;in panic&#8221; about the offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Back in October, Zelensky warned that Russia was preparing a &#8220;false flag&#8221; operation, adding at the time, \u201cWe have information that Russian terrorists mined the dam and aggregates of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US is unsure who caused the explosion that damaged a key dam in southern Ukraine, forcing thousands to evacuate due to potential flooding. 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