Greenpeace, whose ostensible mission is “for a green and peaceful world,” has supposedly investigated the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), under the management of Russia’s Rosatom, and announced their “conclusive new evidence that the electric power loss at ZNPP is a deliberate act of sabotage by Russia.” They are not repeating Kiev’s claim—that Russia assaulted the main power line feeding the plant that they are managing—yet Greenpeace seems, in their own way, to be even crazier.
It is not known under whose authority a so-called “environmental organization” is mandated to conduct such an investigation in a war zone and to assign blame to one of the nations involved.
Greenpeace set out to show that one part of the power line suffered no major damage. However, the operators of the Zaporozhy plant, the largest nuclear plant in Europe, never claimed that any part actually had major damage. In fact, they stated that they have replacement parts for the minor repair needed, along with the personnel to make a quick repair; and that the problem is that Ukrainian shelling in the area makes it unsafe to send the crew out.
Regardless, Greenpeace obtained “high resolution satellite imagery” and then commissioned “former military remote sensing experts at McKenzie Intelligence Services” to show “that there has been no shelling or attacks at the location of the 750 kV transmission tower.” Actually, McKenzie concluded that there was no major damage at the tower, “that if there is any damage to the line at all, it is minimal and could be repaired”—something in line with what the ZNPP authorities had already said.
