There are more and more indications that Moscow behind her explosion of the New Kakhovka dam: A senior US government official announced that US spy satellites detected an explosion at the dam shortly before it collapsed, but US analysts still do not know exactly what caused the disaster.

Satellites equipped with infrared sensors detected heat consistent with a massive explosion just before the dam collapsed, causing the flood. American analysts Intelligence agencies suspect that Russia is behind the dam’s destruction, but still have no hard evidence as to who is responsible.

At the same time, the Internal Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported the interception of a telephone conversation between two Russian servicemen, which proves that the Russian side blew up a hydroelectric dam last Tuesday, causing catastrophic floods in the region. Peninsula.

In the one and a half minute audio document that was posted online, two men speak Russian, and one of them says that the dam “was broken not by Ukrainians, but by our saboteurs.” This version is supported by a BBC report in which seismographs in the Ukrainian city of Bukovina, which is 620 kilometers from Nova Kakhovka, recorded a signal indicating an explosion in the area of ​​u200bu200bthe dam at the time of the collapse, which is confirmed by the Norwegian Seismological Institute, which analyzed the corresponding signal .

The Internal Security Service of Ukraine posted on the Internet an audio recording of a conversation between Russian servicemen.

Meanwhile, rescue teams continued their work yesterday in flood-affected areas under difficult conditions due to continued shelling.

Spokeswoman for the southern command of the Ukrainian armed forces, Natalya Khumenyuk, said that Russian artillery continued to fire, but at a lower intensity, as flooding forced them to redeploy to new positions.

For his part, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused the Ukrainian army of “barbarism,” saying they killed civilians affected by the flood, including a pregnant woman. Until last night, 13 people had been identified as the result of the flood, including eight on the eastern bank of the Dnieper, which is under Russian occupation, and five on the western bank, which is controlled by the Ukrainian army.

Another development was the strengthening of military cooperation between Moscow and Tehran after the White House released evidence that Iran is helping Russia build a plant to produce unmanned aerial vehicles.