On August 1, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russia has been using Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant as a military base. Russia’s U.N. mission objected Here is our FactCheck :
The Wall Street Journal reported“At the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine, more than 500 Russian soldiers who seized the facility in March recently have deployed heavy artillery batteries and laid anti-personnel mines along the shores of the reservoir whose water cools its six reactors, according to workers, residents, Ukrainian officials, and diplomats.
“It is, in effect, a free shot. Ukraine cannot unleash volleys of shells in return using American-provided advanced rocket systems, which have silenced Russian guns elsewhere on the front line. Doing so would risk striking one of the six pressurized water reactors or highly radioactive waste in storage. And Russia knows it.
“‘They are hiding there so they cannot be hit,’” said Oleksandr Sayuk, the mayor of Nikopol. ‘Why else would they be at the electrical station? To use such an object as a shield is very dangerous.’ ”: “Every principle of nuclear safety has been violated” at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, and the situation is “completely out of control.”
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