Dam collapse would be new low if Moscow is to blame, says Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak holds a huddle with political journalists on board a government flight to Washington. Photograph: Reuters

Rishi Sunak has said if Russia was responsible for the destruction of a dam in Ukraine, it would be a “new low” for Moscow in the invasion.

Speaking to reporters on board his official plane to Washington, where he is to hold pre-planned talks with the US president, Joe Biden, Sunak said the UK cannot yet know for certain who was to blame for the collapse of a vast dam on the Dnipro River that Kyiv said was blown up by Russian forces to hamper a Ukrainian military push.