On a smaller scale, such acts seem likely to multiply in a context of new rises in tensions. "The Kiev authorities, at the instigation of their Western curators, continue to commit war crimes, to openly use terrorist methods and to organize acts of sabotage on Russian territory," says Putin.
"A barbaric act"; "An environmental and humanitarian disaster of great magnitude"; "The destruction of the dam of Kakhovka, in the south of Ukraine, is an act of war," adds Putin.