Russia is plotting to destroy a key Ukrainian dam to flood the port city of Kherson before using it as a cover to retreat, a think-tank has claimed.
Moscow would then pin the blame on Kyiv in a "false flag" attack that would provide a distraction from Moscow's recent battlefield humiliation.
Colonel General Sergei Surovikin, Russia's new war commander in Ukraine, spoke to Russian media this week about plans for a "devastating strike" on the Nova Kakhovka dam which he said was being plotted by Putin's troops.
