Moscow denies: "It was them." Flooded dozens of villages. Kiev immediately requested, and obtained, an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg immediately spoke of "an outrageous act that once again demonstrates the brutality of Russia's war in Ukraine" EU Council President Charles Michel denounced "a war crime" for which Russia will have to "pay the consequences" German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also explained the explosion as "aggression by Russia to stop Ukraine's offensive"