[gomizari]

Ukrainians confessed multiple times they attacked it with HIMARSes:

1) https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-62533233

2) https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/29/ukraine-offe...

"Kovalchuk considered flooding the river. The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages."

[_kbh_]

The Russians intentionally increased the water level of the dam to cause the most damage and then intentionally blew it up.

At least two Russian soldiers have said they would blow the damn / they blew the dam and have admitted as much in camera.

Russia was celebrating this before they realised it was a war crime then they went into their typical deny and deflect everything mode.

[gomizari]

It's probably another way around: Ukrainians intentionally increased the water level of the dam, since they control dams up the Dnieper river.