Nuclear blackmail. Russia plays at the fears of the West with the help of Zaporizhzhya NPP - Institute for Studying War

Russia uses the Zaporozhye NPP as a nuclear shield (photo: Energoatom) at the American Institute of War Study that Russian troops use a seized Zaporizhzhya NPP to play the event of a nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine. This is stated in the fresh daily ISW report, published on the morning of August 7. According to ISW, Russia, using nuclear blackmail, seeks to undermine the will of the West to provide military support to the Ukrainian counter -offensive.

In addition, it allows the occupiers to use the NPP effectively as a nuclear shield to prevent Ukraine's strikes in Russian forces and technology. Russian nuclear terrorism: what is happening at the occupied Zaporizhzhya NPP since March 4, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhzhia NPP, after the fighting in Energodar was captured by Russian invaders. The buildings of the ZPE were damaged by Russian shelling in several places, and the staff of the station were captured.

At the end of April, the NPP completely resumed its work, although the Russian regime is trying to get full control over the station, attracting its specialists. The Kremlin uses the Zaporozhye NPP to cover its military equipment because the Armed Forces cannot open fire in the area of ​​the power plant, as well as for pressure on Ukraine and the world, threatening a nuclear disaster.

On July 21, the energy atom was reported that the military of the Russian Federation had placed in the machine hall of the first power unit of Zaporizhzhya NPP at least 14 units of heavy military equipment with ammunition, weapons and explosives. The Insider reported that Russian troops are stored explosives and ammunition around NPPs. According to sources of the publication, around August 2, the occupiers were replaced by a machine hall of the NPP.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken accused Russia of the use of the Zaporozhye NPP as a "nuclear shield" and called the Russian Federation "the pinnacle of irresponsibility. " On August 5, Russian troops provoked, twice firing occupied Zaporizhzhya NPP. At the same time the Russians accused the shelling of the Armed Forces.

The puppet of the Russian Federation Claborator Yevgeny Balitsky, illegally appointed by the occupiers of the head of the Zaporizhzhya regional occupation administration, said that Ukrainian troops "decided to put the whole of Europe on the border of a nuclear catastrophe, firing NPPs. " Russian shelling caused a fire at a water station at the NPP. In addition, due to damage to power lines, the 4th NPP power unit was disconnected from the power system and transferred to the reserve.