Russia broke international law by destroying Ukraine dam: ambassador

Envoy to Japan calls alleged attacks on civilians in flooded areas 'genocide'

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Houses stand submerged in Kherson on June 7 after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached. © Reuters

SHIGERU SENO, Nikkei senior staff writer

TOKYO -- The destruction of a dam in Ukraine was a Russian act and "forbidden by international conventions," Kyiv's ambassador to Japan said.

"It is absolutely clear that [it] was done by Russians," Sergiy Korsunsky told Nikkei on Tuesday. He pointed to intelligence received by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last October indicating that Russia had planted explosives at the dam.

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