{"id":270315,"date":"2023-06-24T05:17:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T05:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=270315"},"modified":"2023-06-26T07:05:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T07:05:54","slug":"president-zelensky-says-ukrainian-spies-uncovered-russian-plot-to-attack-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=270315","title":{"rendered":"President Zelensky says Ukrainian spies uncovered Russian plot to attack power plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Robert Dex \u2013 Evening Standard via Yahoo News June 12, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/ukrainian\">Ukrainian <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/spies\">spies<\/a> have uncovered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/russian\">Russian<\/a> plot to attack a nuclear plant and cause a radiation leak, according to the country\u2019s president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/volodymyr-zelensky\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed details of the plan for a \u201cterrorist\u201d attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant during a video statement.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/kremlin\">Kremlin<\/a> dismissed the allegation as \u201canother lie\u201d, and said a team of U.N. nuclear inspectors had visited the plant and rated everything highly.<\/p>\n<p>In the video statement on the Telegram messenger, Zelensky said Kyiv was sharing the information about the Russian-occupied facility in southern Ukraine with all its international partners from Europe and the United States to China and India<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntelligence has received information that Russia is considering the scenario of a terrorist act at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant &#8211; a terrorist act with the release of radiation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have prepared everything for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskiy did not say what evidence the intelligence agencies based their assertion on.<\/p>\n<p>The six-reactor complex, Europe\u2019s biggest nuclear plant, has been under occupation since shortly after Moscow\u2019s forces invaded Ukraine in February last year.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides have accused each other of shelling the vast complex, and international efforts to establish a demilitarised zone around it have failed so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, I have had to remind (people) more than once that radiation knows no state borders. And who it will hit is determined only by the direction of the wind&#8230;\u201d Zelensky said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, suffered the world\u2019s worst nuclear accident in 1986 when clouds of radioactive material spread across much of Europe after an explosion and fire at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskiy made his statement two days after Ukraine\u2019s military intelligence chief accused Russia of \u201cmining\u201d the cooling pond used to keep the reactors cool at the Zaporizhzhia plant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.style.yahoo.com\/president-zelensky-says-ukrainian-spies-154847509.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a \u2018coincidence\u2019! As Lindsey Graham introduces a bill that will make any radioactive contamination of a NATO member from Russian action, even if accidental, an act of war against NATO, Zelensky reveals Russian plot to strike nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":257604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270316,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270315\/revisions\/270316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/257604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}