What’s behind the Russians’ obsession with Ukraine’s nuclear plants?
Ukraine is home to three additional nuclear facilities totaling nine more reactors, and some observers have theorized those are also“The Russians will want to secure the other three Ukrainian nuclear facilities as part of this strategy,” Dr. Robert J. Bunker, research director at the security consultancy ℅ Futures LLC, told The Daily Beast.
Kempfer, who formerly directed a coalition task force that studied weapons of mass destruction [WMDs], accused Russian president Vladimir Putin of “creating information or ‘facts’ to fit an official narrative, no matter how fake, illogical, ridiculous, unsubstantiated or easily refuted they may be,” said Kempfer, who called the claim that Ukraine had intended to use WMDs “truly Orwellian.”Bunker, a former professor at the U.S. Army War College, agreed.
“I think the Russian narrative is meant to obscure Putin's strategic objectives as well as use propaganda to make the Ukrainian defenders appear as aggressors and war criminals that must be stopped,” he said. “Also, if a radiological release or nuclear event took place the Russians might try to label it as part of a false flag Ukrainian or even NATO backed plot.”
There might not be a WMD plot afoot, but that doesn’t mean the reactors aren’t valuable targets, in particular because about“There is strategic operation value in controlling energy and communication centers and choke points,” said retired Marine Colonel G.I.
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