** 05-Mar-2022 World View: UN Security Council condemns Russia's attack on nuclear power plant
Thursday night's crisis at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
finally ended without a feared nuclear disaster. The Russians
bombarded the plant with artillery fire, setting fire to the
administrative buildings. This is the largest nuclear power plant in
Europe, and one of the largest in the world.
There are six nuclear reactors at the site, and if one of them had
been hit, either accidentally or intentionally, it could have
triggered a nuclear thermal explosion larger than the disaster at the
Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986.
France called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on
Friday. Attacking a nuclear power plant is a war crime, and one
country after another condemned the Russians. However, the Russian
ambassador said that the Russians were really good guys, since there
was no nuclear disaster. That's like a man who gets drunk and beats
the crap out of his wife, but then claims he's a good guy because he
stopped short of killing her.
Russia has been conducting numerous war crimes, making indiscriminate
attacks on civilians and residential neighborhoods, flattening
villages and cities with illegal cluster bombs, illegal cassette bombs
and illegal thermobaric bombs. Russia hasn't yet begun using illegal
chemical weapons, as they used in Syria and Chechnya, but that's
presumably the next step.
Despite Russia's massive war crimes and genocide, the UN Security
Council did nothing. This was the expected outcome, since Russia has
become extremely skillful at making the United Nations useless.
Ukraine has 15 nuclear power plants. According to the US ambassador
to Ukraine, Russian forces are now approaching Ukraine's second
largest nuclear facility, Yuzhnoukrainsk Nuclear Power Station in the
Mykolaiv Oblast, in southern Ukraine. So now there are concerns about
a nuclear disaster at that plant.
**** Russia's southern campaign
Russia's attacks in the north and east appear to have bogged down, but
the amphibious attacks from the south has been more successful.
That's probably because Russia has a large naval base at Sevastopol in
Crimea, and its forces are better trained. Russia has been making
naval attacks on southern Ukraine from the Black Sea and from the Sea
of Azov. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is located in
Enerhodar, in southeast Ukraine, just north of Crimea.
The naval attacks are focusing on the cities of Mariupol, Kherson and
Odessa. As expected, Russia is creating a land bridge from Russia to
Crimea along the coast of the Sea of Azov. By attacking the port of
Odessa, Russia is expecting to make Ukraine into a landlocked country.
The Russians may be planning to continue on to Moldova. There's a
Russian-speaking separatist region in Moldova called Transnistria, and
Russian troops may occupy that region and launch an attack on Moldova,
similar to the attack on Ukraine from Donbas.
**** Assassination squads for Zelenskyy
According to reports from Ukraine's security services, Russia has sent
several assassination squads to track down and kill Ukraine’s
president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
One of them is from the Wagner Group, which is Vladimir Putin's
private mercenary military militia. I've reported on them in the past
operating in Syria and Libya, and they're currently operating in Mali.
Another assassination squad comes from Chechen fighters in the Russian
National Guard Squad, led by the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov.
These battle-hardened Chechen fighters are thought to be particularly
barbaric.
However, both of these assassination squads, and a third one, were
identified and in killed after they entered Kiev. The reason they
were identified is that turncoats in the Russian army told Ukraine's
security services where to find them. A lot of people in Russia's
army oppose the war in Ukraine, which is one reason why morale is so
low.
Ukraine's army has posted a video showing soldiers greasing bullets
with pig fat. Since Chechens are Muslims, they will not be martyred
and go to heaven if they are hit by a bullet covered with pig fat.
**** Peace talks
One technique that Russian and Chinese aholes use constantly is to
make international agreements to gain concessions, and then ignore
their own obligations while demanding that the West honor theirs.
According to reports, this has already happened. There were farcical
"peace talks" on Friday, at which a ceasefire in Mariupol was agreed,
so that women and children could start evacuating along a so-called
"humanitarian corridor." The ceasefire lasted an hour, and the
evacuating women and children became sitting ducks for Russian
artillery shells.
**** The future
There are now some 1.5 million Ukraine refugees pouring into
neighboring countries, mostly Poland. The UN expects this number to
reach ten million. It appears more and more likely that Russia's
Ukraine invasion will cause a chain reaction that will lead to a major
European war, and within the next few months to a world war and a
global depression. Nuclear weapons will be used.
-- U.S., allies slam Russia at U.N. over its seizure of Ukraine
nuclear plant
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/un- ... 022-03-04/
(Reuters, 4-Mar-2022)
-- Ukraine Uses ‘Pig-Fat Bullets’ To Deflate Russian Aggression While
Moscow Determined To De-Nazify Kiev, Remove Zelensky
https://eurasiantimes.com/ukraine-uses- ... ggression/
(EurAsian, 2-Mar-2022)