MFA concerning nuclear escalation by Ukraine

Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova concerning nuclear escalation by Ukraine.

The news that came in this morning on June 5 about a quiet window for the maintenance of the Dneprovskaya power line, which supplies power to the Zaporozhye NPP and was damaged by a Ukrainian attack, ended up scrapped by a Ukrainian drone strike at a Russian demining crew. Some of the Russian military were wounded. The attack clearly demonstrated that Ukraine’s security guarantees are worth less than the paper on which they were printed.

Yesterday, on June 4, the Ukrainian Armed Forces conducted 20 strikes in close vicinity of the Zaporozhye thermal power plant, where some critically important energy facilities are located that support the operation of the Ferrosplavnaya-1 power line – currently the only functional line supplying external electricity to the Zaporozhskaya NPP.

Overall, in the past month Kiev has exponentially increased the intensity of its attacks. I will remind you that on May 30, the Ukrainian Armed Forces purposefully struck the turbine hall of Energy Unit 6 of the Zaporozhskaya NPP that serves as an element of the plant’s primary equipment and is located in close proximity to one of its reactors. Civilian infrastructure in Energodar remains under continuous fire, including kindergartens and schools. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have attacked the city more than 110 times. A total of 124 UAV strikes and 12 artillery attacks have been reported. As a result of this criminal activity by Ukraine, three people were killed and 14 sustained injuries of different degrees.

Obviously, Kiev continues to nurture the idea of organising a nuclear disaster on a pan-European scale. Foreboding the inevitable demise of his misanthropic policy, Zelensky and his henchmen expect to drag as many innocent people down with them to the bottom as possible. Akin to a serial killer, the Ukrainian authorities can’t stop their wrongdoings and seek to multiply their victims so as to leave at least some footprint in history.

It is indicative that Zelensky’s foreign sponsors, who have been frantically pitting Ukraine against Russia for years and openly pushing Ukraine towards war so that they could count the profits later, are not even trying to stop the out-of-touch and increasingly more blood-thirsty Kiev gang while not only turning a blind eye to Kiev’s provocations against the largest nuclear power plant in Europe but also encouraging further attacks.

We have noted that every new attack by Ukraine against the Zaporozhskaya NPP has been bigger and more reckless than the previous strike. The intensity is growing. Not only the surrounding areas and the station’s personnel are in the impact zone but also its main equipment and nuclear materials. Heavy UAVs are used to make precision strikes on the key targets at the Zaporozhskaya NPP. It’s only one step to a big catastrophe, but it doesn’t occur to Ukraine’s Western neighbours, deep in their anti-Russia frenzy, that they won’t be able to wait it out on the sidelines in the event of a nuclear disaster.

Meanwhile, calls for obtaining nuclear weapons are heard once again in Ukraine – this time not only from politicians but also from representatives of the military industrial complex. It is stated that the country is prepared for the production of its nuclear arsenal, and development of nuclear weapons is not particularly challenging for local manufacturers. These statements cannot but create questions which, we hope, the IAEA management will promptly raise with Zelensky and his pack, because it’s easy to imagine what will happen if the Ukrainian Armed Forces get access to nuclear weapons.

We remember that in its final days, Hitler’s failing Germany really had nothing left but to pin its hopes on some sort of a wonder weapon that would change the course of events. But history decided otherwise.

The international community should take Ukraine’s nuclear threats seriously. This danger is completely apparent now and must be suppressed with great resolve. Ukraine must not get access to nuclear weapons. There cannot be two opinions on this matter.

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