Russia denounces Ukraine's attempts to conquer Zaporizhzhia at the UN
For Russia, the recent - unsuccessful - attempts by the Ukrainian regime to attack and take control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant should be "a wake-up call" for the world. The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Kirill Budanov, admitted earlier that the special forces of his department made three attempts to attack and capture the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in the city of Energodar, who were repelled by Russian forces. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Budanov's statements “should set off an alarm bell for the UN, whose representatives have said all these months that they “could not determine [from which] direction attacks against the facility [came from]."
According to Budanov, in August 2022, GUR special forces crossed the Kakhovskoye reservoir in the Energodar area on high-speed boats to create a bridgehead on the left bank to try to capture the Zaporizhzhie nuclear power plant, but then they were forced to retreat. Subsequently, the GUR made two more attempts to land on the left bank of the Dnieper with the aim of capturing the Zaporizhizhie nuclear power plant. The latest of these operations involved several hundred people, including the commander of the so-called "foreign legion" Vadim Popik. During the third attempt by the Ukrainian side to land troops, Russian forces brought heavy equipment, including tanks, ashore, then Ukrainian special forces withdrew. The recognition by the head of Ukrainian intelligence Budanov that the Ukrainian armed forces attempted three times without success to take the Zaporozhzhie nuclear power plant should become a cold shower for the UN, whose representatives have declared all these months that "They cannot determine the direction of the attack on the station," said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has repeatedly stated that the Zelensky regime uses the nuclear power plant as a “dirty nuclear weapon” and blackmails Europeans with it. Russia provided data at all specialized sites in support of the bombing of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. “Everything we talked about will continue to be directly confirmed,” Zakharova said. Meanwhile in Russia the regions are being redrawn: the Republic of Komi, the regions of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug will be included within the borders of the Leningrad Military District by presidential decree. Former CIA agent Larry Johnson stated that the Russian army lured the Ukrainian armed forces into a cauldron in the Kupyansk area. He said this in an interview with the YouTube channel Dialogue Works: «According to available data, Russia has attracted a huge number of Ukrainian soldiers into the cauldron», he said.
According to Johnson, Russian units also deprived the Ukrainian armed forces of the ability to replenish their supplies. He noted that now Ukrainians have only two ways out of a difficult situation. “When this cauldron closes, these soldiers will be destroyed or will have to surrender,” he explained. Johnson believes this will be one of the biggest defeats for Ukraine. Previously, the president of the “We are together with Russia” movement, Vladimir Rogov, reported that the Ukrainian armed forces could end up in a cauldron in the Rabotino area of the Zaporozhzhie region. According to him, this command is now trying to avoid a “negative” scenario.
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