It was also in Russian hands when the Ukrainians shelled it last year: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-russian-held-n...
> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/16/world/europe/...
> Given the satellite and seismic detections of explosions in the area, by far the most likely cause of the collapse was an explosive charge placed in the maintenance passageway, or gallery, that runs through the concrete heart of the structure, according to two American engineers, an expert in explosives and a Ukrainian engineer with extensive experience with the dam’s operations.
Non-sequitur refutations followed by a wave of downvotes are my favourite HN feature.
I did neither write nor imply that the shelling caused the damage. I refuted lnsru’s spurious logic of attribution.