Russia’s Deputy Envoy to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy said at the UN Security Council yesterday that the refusal to hold Ukraine accountable for attacks on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has emboldened Kiev to target the Kursk NPP in the same way. He denounced the Western powers for their failure to acknowledge the escalating Ukrainian threat to nuclear safety.
Earlier in August, an incendiary device deployed by a Ukrainian drone caused a major fire at one of the two cooling towers at Zaporozhye NPP, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. The International Atomic Energy Agency, with observers on site, confirmed, according to RT, that the blaze did not start at the base of the structure.
Even though Moscow has urged the West to use their leverage with Kiev to curtail various assaults over the last two-and-a-half years, there has been silence; now the Kursk NPP has been threatened. Polyanskiy asserted: “This kind of recklessness, which potentially could trigger a nuclear incident with tragic consequences for the whole of Europe, is the best rebuff to those who have tried and are trying to ignore the Kiev regime’s attack on the ZNPP: this is what your unprincipled ostrich-like stance leads to.”