In the proverbial fog of war, there are charges and countercharges by both sides. Yet, there is still a difference between those who submit evidence and those who don’t – and never even thought to.
This afternoon, the UN Security Council met in emergency session, at the request of Russia, to consider evidence of the attacks upon the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (NPP). Ukraine has argued both: a) that Russia has shelled its own security force at the plant, so as to make Ukraine look bad; and b) Russia has militarized the NPP with heavy artillery, making it legal for Ukraine to shell the plant. No evidence was submitted, described or alleged; but the U..S and western allies accused Moscow of a scheme to “steal Ukrainian electricity.” One wonders, were that actually the case, would artillery fire onto a nuclear facility be the remedy?
According to RT’s initial report, Russia’s Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia submitted photographic evidence of Ukrainian attacks on the plant; offered high-resolution photos of the entire site, to address the false claim of the site being turned into a military outpost; and provided a timeline of the strikes, naming the Ukrainian artillery unit involved, and noted which of the strikes involved Pentagon M777 howitzers. Nebenzia contended: “It seems that our colleagues exist in some kind of their own parallel reality, in which the Russian military shells the NPP it is protecting, using American systems at that.”
