Lithuania's president and the foreign ministers of Latvia and Estonia said on Tuesday the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine was a war crime for which Russia must be held accountable.

Evidence was growing on Friday that there was an explosion at the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine around the time it collapsed, according to Ukrainian and U.S. intelligence reports and seismic data from Norway.

Ukraine's president says "life is broken" for thousands of people around Kherson after what his country calls a "heinous" Russian war crime.

Ukraine's domestic security service said on Friday it had intercepted a telephone call proving a Russian "sabotage group" blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric station and dam in southern Ukraine. The destruction of the facility on Tuesday unleashed mass flooding,

Ukraine's domestic security service said on Friday it had intercepted a telephone call proving Russian forces blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric station and dam in southern Ukraine's Kherson region. The Security Service of Ukraine posted a one-and-a-half minute audio clip of the alleged conversation on its Telegram channel.