{"id":257940,"date":"2022-08-28T09:28:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T09:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=257940"},"modified":"2022-08-30T06:24:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T06:24:10","slug":"russia-says-ukraine-shelled-around-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-3-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=257940","title":{"rendered":"Russia says Ukraine shelled around Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant 3 times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction \u2013 Aug 28, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Despite the obvious risk of radioactive leak, it is Ukraine that is shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Not Russia, although you might not know that from reading the Western MSM like the Independent, which obscures Ukraine\u2019s clear culpability in the matter with headlines like:<\/p>\n

\u201cUkraine warns of \u2018hydrogen leak\u2019 risk at nuclear plant after Russian shelling\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

No doubt published with the approval of Western intelligence, the Independent report is clearly disinformation. A clearer picture of the situation emerges from the following Press TV report. Ed.<\/p>\n

Russia says Ukraine shelled around Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant 3 times<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Press TV \u2013 Aug 27, 2022<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Russia has lambasted Ukraine for shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is under Russian control, three times in the past 24 hours despite a risk of leaking at the station.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zaporizhzhia is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and among the 10 largest in the world. Russian forces seized the plant soon after Moscow launched its ongoing military offensive in the ex-Soviet country on February 24. Ukraine accuses Russia of storing heavy weapons in the plant. Moscow denies the allegation.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said Ukrainian forces had shelled the nuclear plant at least three times during the previous 24 hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cA total of 17 shells were fired, four of which hit the roof of Special Building No. 1, where 168 assemblies of US WestingHouse nuclear fuel are stored,\u201d it said in a statement, adding that 10 shells exploded in the vicinity of a dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel and three more shells near a building, which houses fresh nuclear fuel storage.<\/p>\n

However, the defense ministry said despite the explosions, the radiation situation at Zaporizhzhia remained normal.<\/p>\n

The plant has come under fire repeatedly in recent weeks. Both Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of targeting the facility, which on Thursday sparked fires in the ash pits of a nearby coal power station that disconnected the plant from the power grid.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s state nuclear company Energoatom energy agency once again accused Russian troops on Saturday of shelling the grounds of the plant complex in the previous 24 hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe damage is currently being ascertained,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Friday that the situation at Zaporizhzhia remained \u201cvery risky\u201d after two of its six reactors were reconnected to the grid following\u00a0strikes that caused the station to be disconnected for the first time in its history.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in its statement on Saturday, Energoatom warned there is a risk of a radioactive leak at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result of periodic shelling, the infrastructure of the station has been damaged, there are risks of hydrogen leakage and sputtering of radioactive substances, and the fire hazard is high,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s state energy operator\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Energoatom also said as of midday Saturday the plant \u201coperates with the risk of violating radiation and fire safety standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the attacks, the Ukrainian staff continues to operate Zaporizhzhia, which has been a matter of international concern that fighting in the area could trigger a Chernobyl-style nuclear disaster after the site was hit by shelling.<\/p>\n

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has already called for launching a mission to the plant \u201cas soon as possible to help stabilize the nuclear safety and security situation there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russia has also taken control of the Chernobyl plant, about 100 kilometers north of Kiev, which has been one of the most radioactive locations on earth since it saw an explosion in its fourth reactor in April 1986.<\/p>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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