Zaporozhye nuclear power plant

Western propaganda and nuclear terrorism. Dr. John Campbell, a Youtuber with 2.4 million followers, deliberately mislocates the location of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant to his followers showing it outside Russian control. The red markings show the plant's actual location. Zelensky and Western propagandists claimed the Russians were firing on themselves to create a nuclear hazard.

The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) (pron Za-po-rose-ya) is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and among the 10 largest in the world. It was built by the Soviet Union in the 1980s near the city of Enerhodar, on the southern shore of the Kakhovka Reservoir on the Dnieper river.

March 2022 attacks

See also: Ukrainian propaganda war

Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky repeatedly ordered his troops to fire on the Zaporozhye nuclear facility, while publicly blaming Russian forces for creating a nuclear threat, in the hopes of gaining sympathy from the West in the form of money and material and direct NATO or UN peacekeeper intervention.

On March 4, 2022 Zelensky and his officials claimed that Russian tanks were shooting at nuclear units at the plant. Zelensky branded it “nuclear terrorism." He previously claimed the Russian capture of Chernobyl posed an imminent threat to “the whole of Europe.” But that was untrue as well.

Zaporozhye was different, though. Here was the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. “Russian tanks are shooting at the nuclear blocks. These are tanks equipped with thermal imagers, so they know what they are aiming at,” Zelensky said. “Only immediate action by Europe can stop Russian troops. Do not allow the death of Europe from the catastrophe at the nuclear power plant.” Korrespondent, one of Ukraine’s biggest newspapers, reported that, according to Zelensky, he had discussed the situation with Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the head of the European Council, Charles Michel. Ukrainian prime minister Denys Shmyhal also called on NATO to create a no-fly zone and “close the skies” over the facility. “It is a question of security of the whole world.” An unidentified Ukrainian official said radiation levels had risen in the area.

According to the Associated Press and Reuters, they lied.

Mark Nelson, managing director at Radiant Energy Fund, noted that Zelensky’s claims were deliberately misleading. Canadian nuclear arms expert Claire Wählen said the same. So dangerous was this lie that the U.S. State Department sent out an urgent message to all American embassies in Europe, instructing them to not share a tweet by the U.S. Embassy in Kiev claiming that Russia was trying to blow up the nuclear power plant.

The fact that there was fighting around the facility suggests that the Ukrainian military had deliberately engaged Russian troops from that location. Combat footage appears to show Ukrainian forces firing rockets from the nuclear power facility, which reportedly sparked return fire from Russian troops. A training center over a mile away from the 6 nuclear reactors were set on fire in the shelling.

Zelensky Offensive

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On July 12, 2022 the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) again targeted the Zaporozhye nuclear plant on Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky's orders. Russian forces have been in control of the plant, with Ukrainian technicians still operating it, since February 2022. The attack was complex, involving drone and artillery fire. The Ukrainian Army used six kamikaze drones conducting reconnaissance mission over the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and the city heating and water supply plant in Energodar. The UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) dropped two bombs near the power plant, which reportedly did not cause any significant damage. Another drone was heading in the direction of residential buildings in Energodar, its course may have been corrected. The UAV attack was thwarted, none of the six drones reached their targets, and the air defense of the Zaporozhye region successfully prevented the attack. The Ukrainians earlier launched a false flag attack against the plant in March 2022.

On July 18, 2022 Ukraine again attacked the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, this time with three kamikaze drones.

Beginning on August 5, 2022 the 44th brigade of the AFU stationed in Nikopol, 18 kilometers across the Dnieper River, increased shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear plant with US M777 Howitzers. Kiev forces used a British-made Brimstone missile in one of the attacks. The situation was compounded by HIMAR attacks on the hydroelectric plant at the Nova Kakhovka dam, which provides electricity for the nuclear plant's vital cooling system. The political motive for shelling a nuclear power is reported to be motivated by upcoming referendums in September 2022 for the former Ukrainian oblasts of Zaporozhye and Kherson to join the Russian Federation. The Kyiv regime is attempting to intimidate the local population. Russia asked the Atomic Energy Commission to look into the matter. Sources on the scene familiar with the matter claimed Zelensky's shelling of the nuclear power plant was an effort to blackmail the Western powers for more military aid and financial support.

By August 19, 2022 the town of Ugledar (pop. 15,000) came under Russian operational tactical encirclement, opening the door for operations behind the entire AFU Zaporozhye line.

On August 26, 2022 on the ground reports appeared of Zelensky ordering 1,000 Ukrainian troops with radiological protective gear to the Dnieper River across from the Zaporozhye nuclear plant.

On August 29, 2022 Ukrainian artillery fire began targeting a storage facility for nuclear waste.

NATO raid

See also: NATO aggression in the Russia-Ukraine war

Boris Johnson poses with Ukrainian special forces training for the raid on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

At about 6 AM Moscow time on September 1, 2022 Ukrainian troops freshly trained in the United Kingdom landed on the coast of the reservoir three kilometers northeast of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in two sabotage groups of 64 people in seven boats and attempted to seize the power plant, according to the Russian defense ministry. The provocation was aimed at disrupting the arrival of the IAEA working group at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. Four Ukrainian shells exploded during the shelling at a distance of 400 meters from the first power unit of the Zaporozhye power plant.

Russian intelligence was fully aware of the plans and had monitored the commandos from the time they left their training in the UK and crossed from Poland into Ukraine.

On September 25, 2022 the Kiev regime again attacked the Zaporozhye NPP. Eight U.S. kamikaze UAVs targeted the station, but all were shot down by Russian forces. About 60 shells were also fired at the city of Energodar.

On October 16, 2022 NATO/Ukrainian forces attempted their fourth amphibious landing assault across the Dnieper river to attack the Zaporozhye nuclear plant. The Russian army destroyed the Ukrainian landing force, which was trying to carry out the attack on barges and speedboats.

At 4AM local time on October 19, 2022 NATO/Ukraine lost another 90 soldiers and 14 boats in another failed amphibious assault on the Zaporozhye power plant with 37 boats. NATO/Ukraine forces struck the city center of Energodar with HIMARS.

On October 30, 2022 NATO attempted another amphibious landing to take the nuclear power plant. 60 men were killed in the failed attempt.

Rosatom statement

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On November 20, 2022 the Zelensky regime resumed shelling the Zaporozhye nuclear plant, this time hitting a radiation storage facility. Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev told reporters:

"We are informing the international community that the plant is at risk of a nuclear disaster and Kiev clearly believes that a small nuclear incident would be acceptable. However, radiation won’t ask Kiev what kind of incident it wants. It will be a precedent that will change the course of history forever. So everything possible needs to be done to make sure that no one can even think of damaging the security of nuclear power plants," he pointed out."

2023 Spring-Summer Counteroffensive

In advance of Ukraine's false flag attack on the ZNPP, a US Air Force "nuke sniffer" arrived in Europe on June 30, 2023.

In late spring 2023 disturbing signs that Ukraine was going to manufacture a false flag nuclear incident at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (ZNPP) and blame on Russia in the hopes that it would create a predicate to activate NATO Article 5 and bring NATO troops into the battle:

"A special aircraft WC-135R Constant Phoenix of the US Air Force was deployed on June 30, 2023 to the Chania airbase in Crete. It is from this base that RQ-4B Global Hawk reconnaissance UAVs and RC-135W Rivet Joint aircraft fly to the Black Sea region. WC-135R is designed to collect information about radioactive radiation and control nuclear tests. The rarest visit of a special board may be connected with the preparation of a nuclear catastrophe by Kiev at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant."

The status of ZNPP ranked high on the 2023 NATO Vilnius summit.

Zaporozhye radiation monitoring station

On June 26, 2024 NATO shelled a radiation monitoring station near the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, the largest such facility in Europe. The attack targeted a monitoring station in Velikaya Znamenka, a village around 15km west of the nuclear facility​. The monitoring station was destroyed in the attack. The Velikaya Znamenka station is one of a group of such stations used to monitor potential radiation leaks. For some time the Zelenksy regime has been threatening the nuclear power station.

2024 terrorist attack

Ukrainian forces' strike on the Zaporozhye power plant can be characterized as an act of nuclear terrorism on the part of Ukraine's authorities, Rosatom stated.

The facility was attacked by a Ukrainian kamikaze drone, the plant's spokesperson, Yevgeniya Yashina said. She added that it breached the plant’s physical integrity, creating an unprecedented threat to nuclear safety, and thereby violating the basic principles of the IAEA.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemned the strike by Ukrainian forces asking: "Where is Rafael Grossi and the entire IAEA? Where is at least some semblance of work from this UN entity responsible for this critical area? The terrorists in Kiev, under the leadership of the collective West, destroyed their country, ruined the people of Ukraine, undermined world energy and food security, and now they have taken up nuclear terror on the continent."

• Ukrainian forces carried out two direct strikes on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant using attack drones on August 11, 2024 at 17:20 and 17:32 GMT, Russia’s Rosatom state corporation reported.

• One of the two cooling towers at the facility was directly struck by UAVs drones, resulting in a fire that burned through its internal structure.

• The tower, which is part of equipment meant to cool water during the plant's normal operation, was "seriously damaged" in the attack. The threat of the structure's collapse will be assessed by experts when the situation allows.

• The governor of Russia's Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balitsky, later stated that there is no danger to the town of Energodar or the region from the fire at the plant following the attack, and there is no threat to the plant itself.

• IAEA experts received information from the nuclear plant about a suspected UAV attack, the agency said. It noted in a statement that its experts witnessed heavy smoke coming from the northern area of plant in the evening.

See also

• Kakhovka dam
• Nordstream pipeline
• Three Mile Island
• Fukushima

External link

• Nuclear Blackmail | The shelling of Zaporozhye power plant puts intl safety at risk