Russia escalates tensions around Zaporizhzhya NPP, risk of terror attack remains – Malyar
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Russia is capable of engaging in “totally reckless” actions, which it would later attempt to attribute to others at Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar said in a post on Telegram on July 5.
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Malyar said that Russia is exacerbating the situation at the Zaporizhzhya NPP and may resort to terrorist acts on its territory in an effort to shift the balance of the conflict in its favor.
She said that intimidation tactics with threats of terrorist acts, and their actual execution, serve as tools for Russia to achieve its military objectives.
She also said that emergency services have been conducting training exercises for several days in four Ukrainian regions – Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Zaporizhzhya Oblast, Kherson Oblast, and Mykolaiv Oblast – to prepare for potential consequences resulting from an attack on the nuclear power plant. Malyar called upon Ukrainians to remain calm, rely solely on official sources of information, and follow recommendations from these sources.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on June 22 that Russia was contemplating a terrorist act at the seized Zaporizhzhya NPP and had “prepared everything” for it.
On June 25, Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate, said that the Russians had completed preparations for a potential attack on the occupied Zaporizhzhya NPP.
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He said that explosive devices had been placed near four out of the plant’s six power units.
John Kirby, spokesperson of the White House National Security Council, stated that the United States does not currently perceive an “imminent” threat of sabotage by Russian occupiers at the Zaporizhzhya NPP. However, he said that U.S. intelligence agencies are monitoring the situation “very closely.”
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On July 4, the Armed Forces of Ukraine officially reported the possibility of provocations by the occupiers in the near future on the premises of the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhya NPP.
Suspicious objects resembling explosive devices were discovered on the external roofing of the third and fourth power units of the plant, Ukraine’s military said.
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