The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has sent a team of inspectors to Ukraine to inspect the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said on Twitter Monday that the inspectors will be at the plant “later this week.”
The ZNPP has been controlled by Russian forces since March. The plant has recently been the site of frequent shelling, raising fears of a potential nuclear disaster.
Ukraine has blamed the shelling on Russia, but Moscow has little reason to attack a nuclear plant that it controls. Russian officials have been calling for an IAEA inspection team to visit the plant, saying that the inspectors will be able to see that Ukrainian forces have been behind the recent attacks.
Both Russia and Ukraine welcomed the IAEA’s announcement. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that the IAEA inspectors were set to arrive in Kyiv on Monday. From the Ukrainian capital, the inspectors will travel to the ZNPP, which is located near the city of Enerhodar in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Yevgeny Balitsky, the Russian-installed governor of Zaporizhzhia, said that the safety of the IAEA team will be ensured. He said officials would use the opportunity to “provide evidence that Ukraine is behaving like a nuclear terrorist state.”
The ZNPP is located on the southern shore of the Dnieper River. Russia controls the plant and the territory around it, while Ukraine controls areas across the river. Russian troops are stationed at the ZNPP, and Moscow has rejected UN calls to demilitarize the plant, claiming it would leave the area exposed to more Ukrainian attacks.
There is no way the IAEA will be allowed to say Ukraine committed the attacks. Anyone in the IAEA who said that would know his career would be over.
Remember: the OPCW lied about a supposed gas attack in Douma, Syria, in 2017. The top officials excluded evidence from the final version of their report, and denigrated “Inspector B,” the mission’s scientific coordinator and author of the initial draft report, and “Inspector A,” Ian Henderson, a chemical engineering and ballistics expert. The chlorine found in Douma was in tiny amounts, which could have come from bleach, chlorinated water or wood preservatives.
A bit more about Douma:
You can’t treat exposure to sarin with your bare hands, as the Islamist “White Helmets” were apparently doing in the aftermath of the Idlib attack, as shown in pictures.
Twitter’s Syrian @Partisangirl posted proof of journalists apparently discussing a chlorine sarine attack before it even happened.
The “moderate rebels” had resorted to poison gas on various occasions, with no reaction from Washington or the UN.
Why would Syria use gas in 2017, thus giving Washington an excuse to attack? Syria was winning, aided by Russian planes and the efforts of Iraqis and Iranians. And still the OPCW declared they had used gas.
Later, when Syria finally took an Islamist-held suburb to Damascus, we heard once again that they had used gas, which would have been meaningless. And a picture was shown of a bomb falling through a roof and landing perfectly in a bed. It was later admitted that the picture was staged.
In one picture, I forget which year, White Helmets were standing in hazmat suits next to what they claimed was gas in liquid form on the ground. They wore sandals. And people were walking by right behind them with no suits.
These White Helmets used the same boy and the same man saving him in pictures for different cities they said had been bombed by Damascus. (Of course a boy and a man, not a girl, since they were Islamists. “Our unsung heroes” as al-Qaeda called them. And yet they were financed by Washington.)
In a video clip you could see a man running with a boy away from an explosion … toward the camera, not to the ambulance in the background.
In another clip a boy was “saved” from being stuck under some rubble, and you could briefly see a hand pushing him out from the rubble. So apparently they had a guy in a hole they had dug under the heap.
You’ve seen that picture of the dusty and bloody boy sitting in an ambulance. Also staged, it’s been revealed.
The White Helmets were the authority on gas attacks, while the OPCW’s own top experts were ignored. All the fakery was accepted without any questions by the media and the UN.
“You can’t treat exposure to sarin with your bare hands”
For obvious reasons you shouldn’t touch someone who’s been exposed to sarin until they’ve gone through a decontamination process to get rid of clothing and ensure there’s none actually still on their skin.
Beyond that, however, yes, you can treat someone who’s been exposed to sarin “with your bare hands.”
Nothing to see here move along. The loving and caring Banderite Nazi’s are currently shelling a nuclear facility thats all. They are using British-made Brimstone missiles and US M777 howitzers.
These are good guy weapons lovingly crafted to only do good in the world. It makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
How do you know it’s Banderites? There are other people in Ukraine. The Azov Battalion is one unit, and many of them were killed or taken prisoner in Mariupol. This is as absurd as the Ukrainian side calling the Russians “fascists”.
Right, that’s just how absurd the US propaganda has gotten.
I am currently reading “Midnight in Chernobyl” ( I began reading it years ago and due to a certain medication I was taking that stopped working, I lost my ability to concentrate on reading.) In just the last few months I regained that ability and picked the book back up.
It is truly horrifying what exposure to radiation did to these people physically; it was almost enough to make you weep.
This facility needs to be protected by the Russians at all costs.
The bottom line is the only losers will be the people of Ukraine , instead of becoming a wealthy country as a land bridge between Europe / Russia they instead let the Americans ? British lead them down the garden path to the ABYSS
The only rational protection against nuclear disaster is ending the war and removing/destroying all weapons which are most likely to bring about such a disaster. All else is BS which is why that will not happen. BS is the foundation of all wars.
To end this and other wars we first have to dismantle the most aggressive and expansionist military alliance of all times. As long as the US/Nato continues its quest for total planetary control there will be no peace.
Wow…! IAEA got some free time to deviate from Iran and focus on Ukraine nuclear power plan for a change…?!
Something will suddenly go wrong, and the inspectors will be ferreted away by those heroic Ukrainian do-gooders just in the nick of time while Putin cackles in his layer with a Persian cat on his lap. There, that’s half a New York Times piece now f**king pay me in Skymall massage chairs for being a “real journalist.”