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Dam explosion/Sunak: The biggest attack on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine

Dam explosion/Sunak: The biggest attack on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine

Hundreds of thousands of people have been left without drinking water since the explosion of the Kakhovka dam. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, has said that if it is proven that the dam was deliberately destroyed, this would be a low-level action by Russian forces.

Sunak made these comments on his way to Washington, where he will discuss the war in Ukraine with US President Joe Biden.

The prime minister said the UK military and intelligence agencies were looking into what had happened and it was too early to make a final assessment.

But he added that if it was intentional, it would represent "the biggest attack on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine since the beginning of the war."

Such attacks, he said, are "terrible and wrong".

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