Month: March 2023

Russia reacts upon UK depleted uranium shells

Blog, Europe, International, Politics

Brussels 23.03.2023 Radiation effects of depleted uranium shells, in case used on the territory of Ukraine, will be impossible to control, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at news briefing on Thursday, March 23.

“Now the impact of used weapons and shells will be impossible to control either for neighboring states or for the states of the region. This simply cannot be done,” the diplomat explained, while commenting on London’s intention to provide shells with depleted uranium to Kiev.

“It is possible to participate in the exchange of intelligence, it is possible to ask Washington to control the Kiev regime to ensure it should not carry out strikes at the territory of Poland or shoot down aircraft of some other countries, it is possible to do many other things, but no one can give instructions to radiation, it’s impossible to negotiate with it, there is no way of controlling it.”

Zakharova recalled the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear power plant disasters.

“Both tragedies still have dire consequences. Their scale is different, but the lesson is the same: it’s impossible to come to terms with radiation,” Zakharova concluded.

Ukraine: Zaporozhye activates emergency diesel

Blog, Conflict, Europe

Brussels 09.03.2023 Ukraine has cut off power to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Energodar, Chairman of the “We Stand With Russia” movement Vladimir Rogov told TASS on Thursday, March 8.

“…[Ukraine] cut off the supply through the last remaining power line to the Zaporozhye NPP at 4:53 a.m. The nuclear power plant is currently disconnected from external power sources,” Rogov explained.

“It has nothing to do with shelling attacks, nothing happened in the area that could have led to the power cutoff. It is just an act of pure spite on the part of Kiev,” he continued noted. He added that the nuclear power plant had been switched to diesel generators.

The Zaporozhye nuclear plant, located in the city of Energodar, is the largest in Europe and has a capacity of about 6,000 MW. Russian troops took control of the facility in late February 2022. Since then, the Ukrainian military has been shelling both Energodar’s residential areas and the premises of the Zaporozhye nuclear station, using drones, heavy artillery and multiple rocket launchers.

An IAEA mission led by Grossi visited the facility in early September 2022 and two of its members remained at the site as observers. The IAEA later published a report calling for the creation of a safety zone around the plant to prevent any calamities from the ongoing military activities.

“It has nothing to do with shelling attacks, nothing happened in the area that could have led to the power cutoff. It is just an act of pure spite on the part of Kiev,” Vladimir Rogov noted