US media are spreading “faux information” to justify Ukrainian assaults on the Zaporozhye nuclear plant, the Russian Overseas Ministry stated
Claims by Ukrainian officers and a former US embassy worker about Moscow bombing the Zaporozhye nuclear energy plant itself controls, with a purpose to “steal” Ukraine’s electrical energy – revealed by the Wall Avenue Journal – make no sense, the Russian Overseas Ministry stated on Tuesday.
Latest artillery assaults on the Zaporozhye NPP are a “deliberate step in Russia’s wider objective: stealing [Zaporozhye’s] energy by severing its connection to Ukraine’s remaining territory,” the WSJ claimed on Sunday, citing “Ukrainian leaders, worldwide nuclear-power specialists and the plant’s workers.”
These quoted on the document embody Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, and former “vitality chief on the US embassy” in Kiev, Suriya Jayanti. The Journal additionally claims to have spoken with “plant employees, members of the family and colleagues who fled to security” – that means, Ukrainian-held territory.
Jayanti claimed that Russia desires to disconnect the ZNPP from Ukraine’s electrical grid with a purpose to destabilize the worldwide vitality markets but in addition depart Kiev depending on the EU, the place electrical energy costs are skyrocketing – although she not noted that is largely as a result of anti-Russian sanctions.
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The report is “a whole demolition of the connection between trigger and impact,” the Russian Overseas Ministry stated on Tuesday, dubbing the WSJ claims “the newest spin of the wheel of disinformation.”
Ukraine has repeatedly focused the nuclear energy plant with artillery, rockets and even kamikaze drones, the ministry famous, including that Russia has introduced proof of it to the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (IAEA) and the UN Safety Council, amongst others. Ukrainian forces have additionally bombed the Kakhovskaya hydroelectic energy station – additionally below Russian management – which provides the ZNPP with cooling water.
On Tuesday, native administration member Vladimir Rogov informed Russian TV that the newest Ukrainian assault got here near breaking one of many barrels storing the spent nuclear gas. A launch from the reservoir would quantity to a “soiled bomb,” Rogov stated.
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A launch from 20-30 containers would create a radiation plume that would unfold as far west as Czechia and as far south as Turkey, affecting Poland and the Baltic States as effectively, former Soviet nuclear inspector Vladimir Kuznetsov informed RT on Tuesday.
“The conclusion suggests itself: by destroying the vitality infrastructure, the Kiev regime is exposing the various tens of millions of individuals on the European continent to the hazard of a nuclear cataclysm, with the connivance of Washington,” the Russian Overseas Ministry stated, noting that the WSJ, positioned throughout the ocean, clearly doesn’t appear to care.
