Report # 131. At the SC Russia proved that Kiev is shelling of ZNPP

August 24, 2022

1. The Russian envoy briefed the UN Security Council on recent Ukrainian attacks on the ZNPP.

Russia has submitted photographic evidence of several Ukrainian rocket and artillery attacks on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant or ZNPP to the UN Security Council, Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said on August 23 according to Moscow time. He also briefed the SC on the most recent attacks, arranged by Kiev in August, some of which involved NATO-supplied weapons, and insisted that Russia does not use the site as a military base and does not deploy heavy weapons there.

“The Russian Ministry of Defense is ready to provide the IAEA with high-resolution images, which show that weapons, especially heavy ones, are not placed on the territory of the station,” he added.

In addition to the photographic evidence of Ukrainian shelling of the plant, Nebenzia entered into the record a timeline of strikes, named the Ukrainian artillery unit involved, and specified which strikes featured M777 howitzers given to Ukraine by the Pentagon.

“It seems that our colleagues exist in some kind of their own parallel reality, in which the Russian military shells the ZNPP it is protecting, using American systems at that,” Nebenzia said. He also noted that there is a normal co-operation between Ukrainian operators at the plant and Russian soldiers responsible for its security.

Contrary to insinuations by Kiev and its Western backers, Nebenzia noted, Moscow had given consent to the IAEA to visit the ZNPP back in June, before the Ukrainian drone, artillery and rocket attacks began. But Kiev disrupted such inspection visit.

Nebenzia blamed the USA and its allies for tolerating “criminal” behavior by Ukraine – from the shelling of the ZNPP to the car bomb that killed Russian journalist Darya Dugina in Moscow over the weekend (some details are in item 2).

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said on August 23 he would personally head the agency mission to the ZNPP in the coming days, and that the UN nuclear watchdog intends to establish a permanent presence on site. But he linked the trip to the results of negotiations with Kiev that insists that the team should go there via Ukraine.


A straightforward question:

what Zelensky will do with the ZNPP in the absence of the Russian security guards around it, if he shells the plant day in, day out in their presence?


2. Russia blamed Ukraine for killing Darya Dugina

The murder of a 29 years old journalist Darya Dugina was committed by a Ukrainian national, the Russian Federal Security Service claimed.

The car bombing outside Moscow on August 20, 2022 which took the life of journalist Darya Dugina [her photo with her father below], was orchestrated and carried out by Ukrainian secret services, the Russian Federal Security Service or FSB has stated.

Car blast kills daughter of Russian philosopher DuginDugina was killed while returning from a festival held in Moscow Region. She was the daughter of a political commentator Aleksandr Dugin. Like her father, she was known for her vocal support of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine defending civilians in Donbass and in other areas in Ukraine.

The Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the relatives of Darya Dugina. He called Darya as a “talented person with a radiant personality and true Russian heart”.  She “showed with her actions what it means to be a patriot of Russia,” the president added, blasting her murder as“heinous and cruel crime.” The Russian president has posthumously awarded Darya Dugina the Order of Courage.

In a statement on August 22, the FSB said that Ukrainian national Natalya Vovk, also known as Natalya Shaban [her photo is below] was born in 1979 and having links with the AFU and “Azov” nationalist faction, carried out the bombing.

Russia releases video of suspected Moscow car bomberAccording to the FSB, Vovk arrived in Russia with her teenage daughter on July 23, 2022 and rented an apartment in the building in Moscow where the victim also lived. Vovk and her daughter attended the ‘Tradition’ festival on August 20, where Aleksandr Dugin delivered a lecture and his daughter was present, the FSB said.

Investigators stated earlier that a bomb was planted under the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado SUV Dugina used to leave the event. The bomb was detonated remotely, killing Dugina as she was driving on a highway.

Her father who was travelling behind her in another car became an eye witness of the explosion.

Vovk then urgently left Moscow with her daughter for Estonia on August 21.

The FSB added that Vovk used only one car with a license plate from the Donetsk People’s Republic when entering Russia, but replaced it with a Kazakhstan license plate when driving in Moscow, and a Ukrainian plate when crossing into Estonia. Ordinary citizens do not change plate numbers during short trips so many times.

Moscow will show no mercy towards those responsible for the death of Darya Dugina, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. “I consider it a barbaric crime for which no forgiveness can be granted,” he said.

Pope Francis has denounced the killing of Darya Dugina,


Peace be upon you, Darya


Written by Vladimir P. Kozin

 

25.08.2022
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