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    Here they go again. Russians "planning to blow up nuclear power station" Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on July 2, 2023, 4:57 pm

    The nazi maniacs in keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeev and their western handlers seem to be planning some more bullshit:

    https://www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2023/jul/01/zelenskiy-warns-russia-could-be-ready-to-provoke-nuclear-plant-explosion

    Zelenskiy: Russia may be preparing to trigger nuclear plant explosion

    President cites Ukraine intelligence that Moscow has mined Zaporizhzhia nuclear station and sent away staff

    Russia could be ready to provoke a localised explosion at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Ukraine’s President Zelenskiy has said.

    Zelenskiy cited Ukrainian intelligence as the source of his information and called for greater international attention to the situation at the facility, the largest nuclear plant in Europe. Since seizing it last year, Moscow has turned it into a military base from which it has bombarded Ukrainian towns across the Dnipro reservoir.

    “There is a serious threat because Russia is technically ready to provoke a local explosion at the station, which could lead to a [radiation] release,” Zelenskiy told a joint news conference in Kyiv with the visiting Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez.

    Earlier on Friday, Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate (GUR) claimed that Russian troops were reducing their presence at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, with staff told to relocate to Crimea and military patrols scaled back.

    The agency’s chief, Kyrylo Budanov, has alleged that Moscow has approved a plan to blow up the station and has mined four of the six power units, as well as a cooling pond.

    According to the GUR, several representatives of Russia’s state nuclear energy agency, Rosatom, have already left. Ukrainian employees who stayed at the plant and signed contracts with Rosatom had been told to evacuate by Monday, preferably to Crimea, it said.

    On Thursday Ukraine conducted nuclear disaster response drills in the vicinity of the power station, regional officials said.

    Russia’s UN ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, replied saying that he had written to the UN security council and secretary general, António Guterres, to state: “We do not intend to blow up this NPP [nuclear power plant], we have no intention of doing so.”

    In a separate development, the US army general, Mark Milley, told the National Press Club in Washington that Ukraine’s counteroffensive could take up to “10 weeks” and be “very, very bloody”.

    “War on paper and real war are different,” Milley said. “In real war, real people die. Real people are on those frontlines and real people are in those vehicles. Real bodies are being shredded by high explosives.”

    Milley said the counteroffensive was “advancing steadily, deliberately working its way through very difficult minefields … 500 metres a day, 1,000 metres a day, 2,000 metres” – and that he was not surprised progress was slower than some people and computers had predicted.

    “What I had said was, this is going to take six, eight, 10 weeks. It’s going to be very difficult,” he added. “It’s going to be very long, and it’s going to be very, very bloody. And no one should have any illusions about any of that.”

    The US is also considering approving the transfer of controversial cluster munition warheads to Ukraine to boost Kyiv’s counteroffensive, CNN reported.

    "a localised explosion" is a very odd turn of phrase that someone like Zelensky wouldn't naturally use (not to get all Carlucci Language Police on his English). Almost the sort of thing that would crop up in an intelligence briefing when planning a false flag.....

    I'm really starting to have a visceral dislike of the coke-guzzling little gic puppet.

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