“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”
Sep 25, 2024
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at U.N. Headquarters on 09/23/24 (Credits in Story)
LLAW’s NUCLEAR VIEWS, ISSUES & COMMENTS, Wednesday, (09/25/2024)
The following article from Newsweek contains no new detailed information, except for Zelenskyy’s appearance in the U.S. to update the United Nations and the United States on a first-hand, perhaps pleading, basis accenting the seriousness of the potential Russian attack on the Ukraine attack on their three nuclear power plants. I am wondering if the U.S. and NATO can come together with a plan to prevent a war-scale attack on the three plants in time to prevent Russia’s ultimate intent, whatever it is.
What is obvious to me is that both Russia and Ukraine know the terrible danger to a huge area of Ukraine and Europe should use these plants as all-out weapons of a genocide style nuclear war as has been implied several times before on prior destructive attacks, including destroying a dam for cooling-water provisions for the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, that has been attacked numerous times by the Russian military. (And by the way, the Zelenskyy name has two ‘y’s at the end.) ~llaw
By Brendan Cole
Senior News Reporter
Russia is seeking to target three Ukrainian nuclear power plants, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the United Nations.
In addressing the U.N. General Assembly, Zelensky warned that, if Vladimir Putin was prepared to resort to such a move, “it means nothing you value matters to Moscow.” Newsweek has contacted the Kremlin by email for comment on the claims.
The Ukrainian president did not specify which plants were under threat, but there are three operating nuclear power plants on Ukrainian-held territory. These are located in Rivne and Khmelnytskyi in the west and Pivdennoukrainsk in the south of the country.
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe’s largest, has been under Russian control since March 2022 and is disconnected from Ukraine’s power grid, but its location in the middle of hostilities has sparked global concern.
Since the start of Putin’s full-scale invasion, the threat that the war in Ukraine could have a nuclear dimension has been expressed variously through threats by Kremlin propagandists and Moscow’s statements of its weapons capabilities.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on September 21 that possible targets for Russian forces included open distribution devices and transmission substations, which are crucial for the safe operation of nuclear infrastructure.
Separately, Zelensky had told ABC News that Russia was using Chinese satellites to photograph Ukraine’s nuclear sites, and added that “there is a threat of strikes against the nuclear objects.”
During his address to the U.N., Zelensky said that “this kind of Russian cynicism will keep striking if it’s given any room in the world,” adding that the U.N. Charter “leaves no room for that and that’s why the Peace Formula leaves no room either.”
Zelensky called on U.N. countries to support a second peace summit “to end the war” following the first event in June in which Russia did not attend.
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Zelensky is in the U.S. to tout his “victory plan,” which he has not clarified publicly but will present to President Joe Biden, U.S. Congress, and presidential contenders Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
Anatol Lieven is director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft think tank based in Washington, D.C. He told Newsweek that, for Zelensky, victory is defined as the withdrawal of Moscow’s forces from all the Ukrainian territory they now occupy.
“There is nothing in the existing, or feasible, balance of forces and resources between Ukraine and Russia to suggest that this is possible, even should greatly increased Western aid be forthcoming,” Lieven said.
However, Kyiv’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region showed that Ukraine was capable of counterattacks, and the territory it has captured was “a potential bargaining chip in future negotiations, not a harbinger of Ukrainian victory.”
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Nuclear War Threats
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Zelensky Sounds Nuclear Alarm at UN – Newsweek
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