Russian Foreign Ministry says US media spreading fake news
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that US media is spreading fake news to justify Ukrainian attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear plant.
Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that Ukrainian officials and a former US embassy employee were wrong to claim Moscow bombing the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant that it controls, in order to steal Ukraine s electricity published by the Wall Street Journal.
Recent artillery attacks on the Zaporozhye NPP are a deliberate step in Russia's wider goal: stealing Zaporozhye's power by severing its connection to Ukraine's remaining territory, the WSJ claimed on Sunday, citing Ukrainian leaders, international nuclear-power experts and the plant's staff. They include Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, and former energy chief at the US embassy in Kiev, Suriya Jayanti. The Journal also claims to have spoken with plant workers, family members and colleagues who fled to safety, meaning Ukrainian-held territory.
Jayanti claimed that Russia wants to disconnect the ZNPP from Ukraine's electrical grid in order to destabilize the global energy markets, but also leave Kiev dependent on the EU, where electricity prices are skyrocketing, though she left out that this is largely due to the anti-Russian sanctions.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the report is a complete demolition of the relationship between cause and effect, and the WSJ claims it is the latest spin of the wheel of disinformation. The ministry noted that Ukraine has repeatedly targeted the nuclear power plant with artillery, rockets and even kamikaze drones, and Russia has presented evidence of it to the UN Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Ukrainian forces were accused of bombing the Kakhovskaya hydroelectic power station under Russian control, which supplies the ZNPP with cooling water.
On Tuesday, local administration member Vladimir Rogov told Russian TV that the latest Ukrainian attack came close to breaking one of the barrels containing the spent nuclear fuel. Rogov said a release from the reservoir would be a dirty bomb.
A 20 -- 30 container release would create a radiation plume that could spread west as Czechia and south as Turkey, affecting Poland and the Baltic States as well, former Soviet nuclear inspector Vladimir Kuznetsov told RT on Tuesday.
The conclusion suggests itself: by destroying the energy infrastructure, the Kiev regime exposes the millions of people on the European continent to the danger of a nuclear war, with the connivance of Washington, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.