The UN sent them a strongly-worded letter.
It’s going in Russia’s permanent file.
Roooskie vodka swilling stupidity at its finest! Roooski barbarians go home and (self) harm yourself, like most good psychos do. Instead of harming Ukraine. Slava Ukraini and F Vlad.
Woo hoo, Serious warnings! What’s next, strongly worded letters? Then what, stumpy feet, holding their breath? That’ll show them.......
Yup, Russia convenes a meeting of the UNSC, attended by the IAEA,
then on the same day shells the NPP they occupied and have operated since March ( with Ukrainian and Russian techs) because they want to destroy power supply and risk contamination of the region they occupy….plus Crimea which is in the wind path,
Makes sense in Western propaganda-land.
“Russian keeps up attacks near Ukraine nuclear plant”
If Russia wants to destroy the plant cause a meltdown, they don’t need to shell it. It’s much more effective to simply light off a ton of explosives from inside one of the domes.
...or shut off the cooling.
“Russian rockets hit in Nikopol on Friday”
Good. Because that is where the Uke shells at the NPP are being fired from
The spins are just fantastic. Nicopol is where the shelling of the station (by Ukrainians) came from. It is not “near” the station.
Insiders in the Ukrainian government posted yesterday, that the MI6 said them that the Russians are going to attack the source of fire.
https://t.me/rezident_ua/13596
What do the Russians think this is....Three Mile Island?
August 8th -—— https://tinyurl.com/yvpt6ymn
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KYIV (Reuters) - Kyiv and Moscow traded blame on Monday for the weekend shelling of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex amid international alarm that their battle for control of the plant could trigger catastrophe.
Calling any attack on a nuclear plant “suicidal”, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres demanded U.N. nuclear inspectors be given access to Zaporizhzhia, the largest complex of its kind in Europe.
Russia’s invading forces seized the southern Ukrainian region containing Zaporizhzhia in March, when the site was struck without damage to its reactors. The area, including the city of Kherson, is now the target of a Ukrainian counter-offensive.
Ukraine appealed for the area around the complex to be demilitarised and for the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, to be let in. Russia said it too favoured an IAEA visit, which it accused Ukraine of blocking while trying to “take Europe hostage” by shelling the plant.
Ukraine blamed Russia for weekend attacks around the complex, which is still being run by Ukrainian technicians. It said three radiation sensors were damaged and two workers injured by shrapnel.
As of Monday morning, the plant appeared to still be running, said Petro Kotin, head of Ukraine’s state nuclear power company Energoatom. He said 500 Russian soldiers and 50 pieces of heavy machinery, including tanks, trucks and armoured infantry vehicles were at the site. [L1N2ZK0IC]
The Ukrainian staff at the plant had nowhere to shelter, he added.
Kotin called for peacekeepers to run the Zaporizhzhia site, flagging the risk of shells hitting its six containers of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel. In an evening video shared online, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for new Western sanctions on Russia’s nuclear industry “for creating the threat of a nuclear disaster.”
Dr Mark Wenman, a nuclear expert at Imperial College London, played down the risk of a major incident, saying the Zaporizhzhia reactors were relatively robust and the spent fuel well protected.
“Although it may seem worrying, and any fighting on a nuclear site would be illegal ...the likelihood of a serious nuclear release is still small,” he said in a statement.
WORKING UNDER ‘RUSSIAN GUNS’
Yevhenii Tsymbaliuk, Ukraine’s ambassador to the IAEA, said Zaporizhzhia staff were “working under the barrels of Russian guns”.
Meanwhile, Russia’s defence ministry said Ukrainian attacks had damaged power lines servicing the plant and forced it to reduce output by two of its six reactors to “prevent disruption”.
The U.N.’s Guterres said IAEA personnel needed access to “create conditions for stabilisation”.
“Any attack (on) a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing,” he told a news conference in Japan, where he attended the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony on Saturday to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing.
The world’s worst civil nuclear disaster occurred in 1986 when a reactor at the Chornobyl complex in northwest Ukraine exploded. Soon after this year’s Feb. 24 invasion, Russian troops occupied that site, withdrawing in late March.
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GRAIN EXPORTS PICK UP ——— (GREAT NEWS!!!)
Adding weight to a rare diplomatic success since the war began, a deal to unblock Ukraine’s food exports and ease global shortages gathered pace as two grain ships carrying almost 59,000 tonnes of corn and soybeans sailed out of Ukrainian Black Sea ports.
That raised the total to 12 since the first vessel left a week ago.
The July 22 grain export pact, brokered by Turkey and the United Nations, was further underpinned as the parties issued procedures for merchant ships carrying Ukrainian grain, including a 10-nautical-mile military exclusion zone, according to a document seen by Reuters.
Before the invasion, Russia and Ukraine together accounted for nearly a third of global wheat exports.
The Russians don’t care. Obviously after Mariupol, their strategy is complete imfrastructure destruction to create a barren buffer zone in Ukraine, where people either flee or are targets. A little radioactivity fits well into this plan.
Prevailing winds from the west will wash nuclear accident results over Russia. The Russian people will not like being exposed to radioactive winds and will react badly if it happens.