Destroying critical infrastructure has been a strategy of both armies for most of the war.
It's difficult to know exactly who did it, because it doesn't seem to benefit anyone. But this whole war has been a shit show from the start, so who is to say which group might have thought it would work to their advantage.
I think it's likely that Russia rigged it to blow "just in case", but the fact that it was visibly failing before it catastrophically failed, the fact that there were explosions before and after the collapse, the fact that it seems to fuck over both sides all make me pretty sure it wasn't intentional and now both sides are claiming that the other did it and that it's actually good that it happened as a form of cope.
Destroying critical infrastructure has been a strategy of both armies for most of the war.
It's difficult to know exactly who did it, because it doesn't seem to benefit anyone. But this whole war has been a shit show from the start, so who is to say which group might have thought it would work to their advantage.
I think it's likely that Russia rigged it to blow "just in case", but the fact that it was visibly failing before it catastrophically failed, the fact that there were explosions before and after the collapse, the fact that it seems to fuck over both sides all make me pretty sure it wasn't intentional and now both sides are claiming that the other did it and that it's actually good that it happened as a form of cope.