Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya speaks to delegates during a Security Council meeting on June 6.Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/VIEWpress/Getty Images Russia's top diplomat on Tuesday blamed the US for the breach in the Kakhovka dam. He claimed that Kyiv was "encouraged" by the West to flood the Dnipro River. He said Ukraine used US-supplied HIMARS to attack the dam, citing a media report from December. Russia's representative to the United Nations on Tuesday blamed the West for the breach of the critical Kakhovka dam, saying US-supplied weapons caused the collapse.Calling the breach a "terrorist plan," top Russian diplomat Vasily Nebenzya claimed Kyiv executed the attack while "sensing its total impunity and with the encouragement of its Western backers."The dam's destruction on Tuesday has unleashed floods upon dozens of villages, and threatens to drain a crucial reservoir that supplies water to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.