Russia has called for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to send inspectors to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), a facility that Russia has controlled since March.
“We believe that the IAEA should not delay the visit. It would be good if it is held in late August or early September, but not all things depend on us,” Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s envoy in Vienna, said on Saturday, according to the Russian news agency Tass.
In recent weeks, the ZNPP has come under frequent shelling, and Ukraine is blaming Russia for the attack even though the facility is under Russian control. Moscow denies the accusation and says Ukraine is attacking the plant. Ulyanov said that an IAEA inspection will show who is responsible for the shelling.
So far, IAEA officials haven’t blamed either Ukraine or Russia for the attacks on the plant. “The agency refrains from naming those responsible, partially due to the fact that none of its representatives is present at the station,” Ulyanov said. He added that a visit to the plant would give IAEA inspectors “a chance to see what is really happening there with their own eyes.”
On Sunday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused Western countries of delaying an IAEA visit to the plant. She said Russia was “sparing no effort” to arrange an IAEA inspection while Ukraine and the West were “doing their utmost not to let it happen.”
Russia’s military has controlled the ZNPP since March, but the plant is still being run by Ukrainian operators, and it has been fully running throughout the war. While Ukraine is accusing Russia of firing on the plant, Kyiv is also accusing Russia of launching attacks from its grounds.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that Ukraine would target Russian troops at the ZNPP. “Every Russian soldier who either shoots at the plant, or shoots using the plant as cover, must understand that he becomes a special target for our intelligence agents, for our special services, for our army,” he said.
Zelensky is using the crisis over the ZNPP to call for new sanctions on Russia. He said new sanctions should be implemented that would “necessarily block the Russian nuclear industry.”
The ZNPP is located on the southern shore of the Dnieper river in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast, which is under Russian control. Ukraine controls territory on the other side of the river, and the area has seen recent shelling from both sides.
Of course the UN will not go as this may reveal THE TRUTH as to who are the “bad guys” in this war.
Yep. Russia goes full hitler on Ukraine and that makes Ukraine the bad guys.
It’s Like saying Palestine under Israel control are bad guys as well as Afghanistan and Iraq are the bad guys following the US invasion.
Because nothing happened between the ending of the Cold War until Russia’s invasion, Nothing.
Yes, lots happened. Russia non stop effort to enslave Ukraine. But you won’t see that, cause you are always siding with your boy Putin.
I don’t like Putin any more than I like Zelensky or Biden or any other thug. But you keep going with that since you’ve got nothing else. Even the most die-hard idiotic blind anti-Russia fool could see the US’ belligerence towards Russia the minute the Cold War ended.
Well, at least your last paragraph is correct, Don.
You seem to have good understanding about the events in the Middle East.
Russia has not taken Ukraine’s sovereignty, US took it 2014. Russia has not attacked Ukraine, the 3rd Donbass war started on the 16th February when US proxy forces attacked the Donbass ie Russian citizens. The first 2 Donbass wars were started by US proxy forces and lead to peace agreements Minsk1 and Minsk2. These peace agreements were brokered by Russia and broken by US proxy forces. These are repeated supreme international crimes according to the Hague, the crime of aggression.
Zelenski swept to power on a peace manifesto. What a complete corrupt liar he is. He is a Jew overseeing a Nazi regime in Europe….Think about that. Just how corrupt and racist we have become.
Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by News from Antiwar.com.
And you call yourself antiwar, very Orwellian. Telling the truth that a Jew is running a Nazi junta ethnically cleansing the Donbass of Russian speakers is a crime against decency right?
And you get cancelled for saying this…..Antiwar my arse. Facts get cancelled. This is what lead to the death of 6 million Jews, fascist racist corrupt censorship. And its important you do your part right? Something to be proud of right?
Hey its only ethnic Russians being cleansed by Jews so NOT racist at all.
Ze Ze Ze is the only expert on anything for the West and its puppets. IAEA please, and no more rubbish of Russia suddenly deciding to destroy its 6 months of work and perhaps the whole world, by shelling its work and its people at the power plant or nearby.
Our drama queen in high heels, ZeZe Gabor…
The UN has proven to be another puppet of the Joey Biden administration.
so when a republican is the next POTUS will the UN still be a puppet of biden?
Depends if it’s a war mongering kleptocrat that want to skim off of Ukraine appropriations or not.
so when another Bush inevitably becomes POTUS the UN will still be a puppet of Biden.
If there really is Russian artillery in the grounds of the ZNPP why are there no satellite images showing where it’s located? Until I see the picture, I’ll regard Zelensky as a liar.
Even if the Russians put artillery there, it does not “justify” Ukraine shooting at the nuclear power plant.
They lost it. They can’t just demand it back by holding Europe hostage to their causing a nuclear incident.
That would be the right thing to do but since US is realizing that they’ve lost the war and is hoping that Russia would fall for nuclear blackmail, as a last ditch attempt to indefinitely freeze the “conflict”, (such a catastrophe won’t affect US much) they’re holding the IAEA back.
No way José, enter previous Russian President Medvedev with a promise to retaliate against a nuke reactor closer to the EU (there are several of them) or in the EU iitself if the west refuse to come to their senses.
Ukraine is accusing Russia of firing on the plant, and also accusing Russia of launching attacks from the plant.
somebody tell ukraine that you run out of legs to stand on when you start talking out of both sides of your mouth
I think ZelBoy is snorting in both sides of his nose.
The US suggestion boils down to “Russia gives it back to Ukraine.” Never happen.
Their “reason” is that Ukraine if forced to shoot at it because the Russians hold it and fire from there. Sounds like the Israelis.
No one more independent than the IAEA. Let them come and stop the obvious lies Zelensky has been distributing about Russians bombing a nuclear plant that THEY control.
Russia urging the IAEA to send inspectors… yeah right, just like they did after attacking the POW prison?
I have a better idea, why dont they take their inept army full of looters, rapists, war criminals, and released prisoners back to their country.
All problems solved.
While there, take all of their Russian separatists and move them across the border in Russia. Build a community for them and give them jobs. It’ll cost only a fraction of what they are spending a month waging war.
But i guess taking the land is more profitable.
From the above article Quoting Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova ; Western countries of delaying an IAEA visit to the plant. Russia is “sparing no effort” to arrange an IAEA inspection while Ukraine and the West are doing their utmost not to let it happen. Kind of speaks for itself.
The evidence at the POW prison show that Ukraine using US supplied weapons were guilty of this atrocity. They did it to stop the NAzi’s giving evidence of atrocities committed by the Kiev regime.
It was the US that shot and murdered police and civilians in the maidan, Brian Christopher Boyenger ran a crew of NATO funded snipers who operated from the Ukraina Hotel that was locked down by the Right Sector (Openly Neo Nazi Paramiltary Organisation) at the time.
It was Brian Christopher Boyenga who was embedded with the Azov Battalion (Openly Neo Nazi Paramiltary Organisation) who he trained and supplied US weapons to, which btw were used for the attempted ethnic cleansing of the Donbass. The US Rand corporation documented the process to ethnicly cleanse the Donbass of Russian speakers, which btw included concentration camps.
Obama himself admitted he overthrew Yanuchovich. Its not that Obama wanted to kill them all, if they fled to Russia that achieved the same goal. Obama needed to ethnically cleanse the Donbass to ensure that the Racist/Fascist Junta he placed in power could stay in power. The Russian speakers in Ukraine held the balance of power and had to be removed if the Junta was to stay in power.
You state “Take all of their Russian separatists and move them across the border in Russia. Build a community for them and give them jobs. It’ll cost only a fraction of what they are spending a month waging war.” so you support the ethnic cleansing of the Donbass. This is one of the most disgusting things said on these forums.
Doom Sternz, Reporting from the Kremlin.
Edit: Moving Russian Separatists back to Russia is Ethnic Cleansing?
Hmm, Because all the Ukrainians forced out of Crimea and Eastern part of Ukraine since 2014 is not Ethnic Cleansing. I see.
Way to show your double standard.
The Banderite Nazi’s are currently shelling a nuclear facility using the weapons we supplied and using targeting information we supply.
Kiev forces used a British-made Brimstone missile in one of their recent attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Also the US M777 howitzers are being used.
This is criminal insanity beyond belief. This is nuclear terrorism. They also found Bio Weapons in Ukraine, Bio terrorism.
The only viable way forward is to arrest all our western leaders and present them to the Hague. There is no other future for us average people.