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The Russian Ministry of Defense said on August 17 that it was seriously evaluating information from independent channels about a Ukrainian plot to attack the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), warning the Kiev regime against taking such a step.
In a statement, the ministry suggested that the purpose of this plot would be to accuse the Russian Federation of “self-fire” at the NPP in order to create grounds for attacks on Ukraine’s nuclear facilities.
“We regard such actions by the Kiev regime supported by Western countries as a direct violation of the International Convention adopted by the UN General Assembly resolution of 13 April 2005. International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism,” the ministry said.
“If the Kiev regime begins to realize its criminal plans aimed at creating a man-made disaster in the European part of the continent that would infer the radioactive contamination of vast territories, tough military and military-technical countermeasures will be taken immediately,” it added.
Kiev forces launched a surprise attack in Kursk on August 6. Despite occupying several settlements in the Russian region, the forces failed to reach the Kursk NPP which is located some 90 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. This was reportedly one of the main goals of the attack.
The statement from the Russian MoD came after Russian military journalist Marat Khairullin reported on August 16, citing sources, that the Kiev regime was “preparing a nuclear false flag – an explosion of a dirty atomic bomb” which would target “the storage sites of spent nuclear fuel of a nuclear power plant.”
According to the reporter, the strike could be launched on either Russia’s Zaporozhye NPP in Energodar, which is also not far from the frontline, or the Kursk NPP in Kursk’s Kurchatov. Kiev vehemently denied the allegation, still its forces attacked Zaporozhye plant on August 17.
The Zaporozhye NPP management said in a statement that a road near the power units of the plant was attacked by Kiev forces.
“At 7:00 a.m. Moscow time [4:00 a.m. GMT], the Ukrainian drone dropped a shell on the road that runs along the power units outside the perimeter. Personnel use this road all the time. No one was injured, but once again a direct threat to the safety of personnel and the plant was created,” the statement reads.
The International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors present at the NPP were informed about the Ukrainian drone attack on the territory of the plant. They visited the place where the shell fell, the plant’s management added.
A Ukrainian attack on Kursk NPP could contaminate large parts of southwest Russia and neighboring areas in Ukraine and other European areas with radiation, threatening the lives of millions of people. An attack on Zaporozhye NPP, the largest in Europe, could be as catastrophic.
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