Zelenskiy aide: Kakhovka dam blast is Russian attempt to 'raise the stakes'

The destruction of a dam in a Russian-occupied part of southern Ukraine is an attempt by Moscow to "raise the stakes" in its full-scale invasion and stoke fears of a nuclear catastrophe, a senior Ukrainian official said on Tuesday.

"Today, the world must...understand that this is an attempt by terrorists to raise the stakes and scare everyone with a possible nuclear disaster," Andriy Yermak, the head of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's administration, wrote on Telegram.