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A Russian soldier stands guard outside Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant Russian forces occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant have turned the site into a military base to launch attacks against Ukrainian positions, the head of Ukraine's nuclear power company says. Petro Kotin told the BBC the threat to the plant was "great", but that it remained safe. For days, Ukraine and Russia have blamed each other for attacks on the site, Europe's largest nuclear plant, raising concerns of a major accident. The complex has been under Russian occupation since early March, although Ukrainian technicians still operate it. Over the weekend,…

Moscow blames Ukraine war sanctions for preventing mutual inspection of its nuclear arms under New Start treatyA Russian RS-24 Yars nuclear missile. Russia has suspended an arrangement that allowed US and Russian inspectors to visit each other’s nuclear weapons sites under the 2010 New Start treaty, in a new blow to arms control. Mutual inspections had been suspended as a health precaution since the start of the Covid pandemic, but a foreign ministry statement on Monday added another reason Russia is unwilling to restart them. It argued that US sanctions imposed because of the invasion of Ukraine stopped Russian inspectors…

The United States has been a leading provider of security assistance to Ukraine, both before and after Russia renewed ts invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. From 2014, when Russia first invaded Ukraine, through August 1, 2022, the United States has provided about $11 billion in security assistance “to help Ukraine preserve its territorial integrity, secure its borders, and improve interoperability with NATO.” Since the start of the 2022 war, the Biden Administration has committed a total of more than $8.1billion in security assistance to “provide Ukraine the equipment it needs to defend itself. Ukrainian officials have sought to…

Secretary of State added that russia’s war against Ukraine threatens the fundamental principles of the international system. If US allows Russia to take over Ukraine, it will lead to " beginning of the season" of such wars in the world. This was stated by United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. "If we allow a big country to bully a smaller one, to just invade it and take over its territory without opposition, then it will be open season not only in Europe, but all over the world," Blinken explained. Secretary of State also added that Russia's war against Ukraine…

The international crisis over the weekend shelling of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant deepened on Monday as Russia and Ukraine traded blame for missile attacks and the United Nations secretary-general warned that an attack on a nuclear facility would be suicidal. Plant staff and Ukrainian officials and diplomats following the case said Russia appears to be trying to steal the nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, by disconnecting it from the Ukrainian national electrical grid and eventually reconnecting it to Russia’s—and abducting and assaulting technicians who oppose that project. The changeover would be costly, time-consuming and of limited benefit to Russia, which…

The Ukrainian Mayor of Melitopol, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ivan Fedorov, reported on August 7 that resistance among Ukrainian residents has forced Russian authorities to “constantly” change their plans for a referendum. Fedorov claimed that occupation authorities had planned a single day of voting but are now considering seven days of “voting from home” in which armed Russian military personnel will go house to house and “interview” Melitopol residents. Fedorov claimed that only about 10% of the civilians remaining in Melitopol support Russia’s occupation By removing in-person voting options and transitioning to house-to-house surveys, Russian occupation authorities are increasing their opportunities to…

Ukraine’s missile and artillery units in cooperation with the resistance movement fighters struck again the Antonivka and Kakhovka bridges "The same fire control that we maintained for several days in this direction has been worked out, and it has its results, it has hits that are quite significant, both on the Antonivsky and Kakhovsky bridges,"Natalia Humeniuk, the head of the coordination press center of the security and defense forces of the SouthShe added that several ammunition storage bases were also destroyed. "We are clarifying the results, which ones are ours. Because we understand that the resistance movement in the occupied…

I have already written that Russia does not have any containment regarding the use of non-conventional weapons, including nuclear. Russian even cannot restrain themselves from blackmailing the world and Ukraine with a nuclear disaster at nuclear power plants. We remember both the capture of Chernobyl and the missiles over the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant.But russian invaders were likely born to cross all generally acceptable limits and confirm their flagrant degradation.Today the Telegram channel with reference to the website zp-new.ru posted a point of view of a stupid russian general scenarios for the possible development of the situation. I quote:…

Russia classifies the occupied areas as being under interim “civil-military administration” Local authorities are coercing the population into disclosing personal details in order to compose voting registers. Last month, the Moscow-installed military administration ruling the area around the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson said it was preparing to hold a referendum on joining Russia. It will be a gross violation of the UN Charter. It is extremely important not allow russian attempts to go unchallenged or unpunished. We need to change the logic: to prevent russia from doing something, and not to respond to what happened. In 2014, Russia illegally…

The human rights charity shamefully castigates the victims of Russian aggression Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s secretary-general, compained that the group’s report was criticised on social media As news reached Britain in 1945 of the death camps in Nazi-occupied Europe, Vera Brittain, the famed pacifist author, maintained that these horrors were being publicised “partly, at least, in order to divert attention from the havoc produced in German cities by allied obliteration bombing”. Campaigners who declare their humanitarian concerns can sometimes fail to gasp the basic moral distinction between a just cause and an evil one. A case of comparable obtuseness is…