The performance by Kiev’s “Center for Countering Disinformation” (CCD) last week, on the subject of President Zelenskyy’s perhaps favorite obsession, the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), should make the hairs on one’s neck stand up. It makes totally credible the idea that the vaunted counteroffensive is pegged around an all-out physical assault upon the nuclear plant—for the primary reason of media ratings and a “hot button” issue capable of stampeding the West into dropping the proxy war and stumbling into direct confrontation with a thermonuclear power.
The CCD begins by reporting that “the last source of external power for the nuclear fuel cooling pumps in the holding pools and nuclear reactors of the power units of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, was accidentally disconnected” by Ukrenergo. (This is the seventh such “accidental” disconnection over the last nine months.) But it was, of course, “a result of damage during the massive Russian shelling.” Now, hold on:
“However, the incident” was “not an accident, but a systemic manifestation of Russia’s use of the nuclear threat as a lever of influence on Ukraine and the world.” They do this by firing artillery shells at the facility that they are in, and “as a result of which the plant remained without power 7 times and went into the so-called blackout mode.” (Didn’t they just admit earlier that Ukrenergo had accidentally disconnected the power line?)
