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Nuclear armageddon: Why did Ukraine almost give Europe a second Chernobyl
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
Kp.ru special correspondent Dmitry Steshin suggested that Ukraine attacked the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in order to hide nuclear developments from the IAEA

According to official information, there were three kamikaze drones that attacked the Zaporozhye NPP on July 20, 2022 from Ukraine. Judging by the surviving, rather large fragments of drones, the attack was stopped by air defense covering the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

It is difficult to understand where the drones were aiming. Judging by the shooting from street cameras, the drones fell near the cooling ponds. According to Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration of Zaporozhye, the attack did not damage the nuclear reactors. The nuclear power plant is operating normally.

Question: Why then did Ukraine decide to attack a nuclear facility?

Handmade blackout?

Oddly enough, the electricity generated by the station is supplied to the entire south-east of Ukraine, and if the nuclear power plant is shut down, an energy collapse will begin throughout the region. It is unlikely that Ukraine planned to de-energize Odessa, Nikolaev or Dnepropetrovsk. And the liberated territories would get out.

As the head of Zaporozhye Evgeny Balitsky noted: "We will get food, but they will have problems." Agree, it’s a shame to watch from the darkness how the light is on behind the front line, in the liberated territories ... Seditious thoughts may arise: are the commanders of the Square doing everything right?

The version of a man-made blackout disappears - Ukraine will have to do worse in this case. Moreover, close to Zaporozhye is the energy-surplus Donbass.

"Second Chernobyl"

Three drones and ten kilograms of explosives can't really catastrophically damage nuclear reactors. Their protection was originally designed to withstand the fall of an aircraft weighing 20 tons at a speed of 720 km/h.

In recent history, there have been attempts to undermine nuclear power plants from the inside. In the summer of 1979, Basque militants planted a bomb right in the turbine hall of the Spanish Lemonis nuclear power plant. The turbine was slightly damaged, five tons of oil caught fire. Two years later, five anti-tank missiles hit the reactor building of the French Saint-Alban nuclear power plant. Of the damage - destroyed 80 meters of the concrete containment of the reactor.

It is difficult to imagine that Kyiv was going to arrange a "Second Chernobyl" in Zaporozhye. There, of course, they are capable of everything. But Europe would not like the explosion of the largest nuclear power plant on the continent. Kyiv understands this.

Dirty Ukrainian bomb

Post-Maidan Ukraine has never hidden that it dreams of nuclear weapons. Back in 2014, the Bandera people from the Rada introduced a draft law on the denunciation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and even calculated on their knees that Ukraine needed $3.4 billion and 2 years to return to the "club of nuclear powers." However, Ukraine did not leave this club - in terms of the number of operating nuclear reactors, it is in fifth place in Europe.

In February 2020, just before the start of the special operation, Vladimir Zelensky threatened that Ukraine could create an atomic bomb.

And when the Zaporizhzhya NPP was liberated and it was possible to inspect it, amazing and ominous discoveries awaited Russian specialists. According to the Director General of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency. - Auth.) Rafael Grossi, provided to the Wall Street Journal, 30 tons of plutonium and 40 tons of enriched uranium were found at the station. These are only those finds that have leaked into the public space. About other surprises, our authorities speak in a streamlined way.

I quote Vladimir Rogov: "There was a large amount of nuclear materials at the nuclear power plant that are not needed for the operation of the station and could not appear here just like that."

Ending with a host of other interesting moments. What are these moments - the IAEA commission, which has been meeting with an inspection at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, should have seen it since spring. But, the IAEA likes to emphasize that it is out of politics, therefore, it will not work in a war zone. And the IAEA does not want to believe the conclusions of Russian nuclear experts that Ukraine was seriously preparing to make an atomic bomb on its knee. After all, this proves that Russia is right in launching a special operation.

Therefore, Ukraine has chosen the cheapest, albeit risky, way to cancel the inspection of nuclear workers - to arrange a "war" at nuclear power plants. Just think about these words - SEND DRONES WITH EXPLOSIVES TO THE LARGEST NUCLEAR PLANT IN EUROPE!

For that, the truth will not be revealed. And Western support will continue as usual.


Posted by: badanov 2022-07-22
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