Russia may hit Ukrainian nuclear plant on Christmas eve

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As US President Joe Biden and his Western allies are making frantic bids in portraying Russia as a culprit nation, and as the recent Ukrainian missile attack on Poland was initially attempted to false show as “Moscow’s attack on NATO nation”, key policymakers in Kremlin are now considering a massive assault on Ukraine by directly hitting its nuclear plant and nuke storage facilities. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is seeking approval for sending military hardware and cash of additional amount of US$37 billion to Ukraine, although he already has spent US$56 billion of American tax-payer’s money on his ambition of defeating Russia in Ukrainian battlefield. According to a source, once Joe Biden will succeed in defeating Russia and driving it away from Ukrainian territory, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky may be advised to push forward his army and neo-Nazi forces towards Russian soil.

Meanwhile, Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently said, repeated shelling at the site of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) on November 19 and 20 has damaged buildings, systems and equipment, with some of the explosions occurring near the reactors.

Director General Grossi described the shelling – one of the most intense such episodes in recent months – as another “close call” for Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, now located in the middle of a war zone.

Radiation levels at the site remained normal and there were no reports of casualties. The ZNPP’s external power supplies, which have been knocked out several times during the conflict, were also not affected.

The latest shelling began shortly before 6pm local time on November 19 and, after a lull, resumed at 9:15am yesterday with more than a dozen blasts within 40 minutes. After the morning shelling, the area was again quiet, the team of IAEA experts reported yesterday afternoon.

According to the IAEA experts, site management reported damage in several places, including a radioactive waste and storage building, cooling pond sprinkler systems, an electrical cable to one of the diesel generators, condensate storage tanks, and to a bridge between a reactor and its auxiliary buildings.

“Once again, we were fortunate that a potentially serious nuclear incident did not happen. Next time, we may not be so lucky. We must do everything in our power to make sure there is no next time,” Director General Grossi said, reiterating his call for urgent measures to protect the ZNPP and prevent a nuclear accident during the current conflict in Ukraine.

The Director General said he has been in active consultations with world leaders on the latest shelling at the ZNPP, and he is insisting that agreeing and implementing a nuclear safety and security protection zone around the ZNPP must happen now.

“Even though there was no direct impact on key nuclear safety and security systems at the plant, the shelling came dangerously close to them. We are talking meters, not kilometers. Whoever is shelling at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, is taking huge risks and gambling with many people’s lives,” Director General Grossi said.

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