{"id":1358540,"date":"2022-03-04T12:06:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T17:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1358540"},"modified":"2022-03-04T12:07:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T17:07:43","slug":"u-s-russian-attack-on-ukrainian-power-plant-a-war-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-russian-attack-on-ukrainian-power-plant-a-war-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.: Russian Attack on Ukrainian Power Plant a \u201cWar Crime\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-russian-attack-on-ukrainian-power-plant-a-war-crime%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1358540&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/04120741\/90-19\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p>The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv accused the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\">Russian<\/a> troops who attacked the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine, of committing \u201ca war crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Russian projectile hit the plant in the southeastern part of the country early Friday morning, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/fire-ukraine-nuclear-power-plant-zaporizhzhya-extinguished\">igniting a localized fire<\/a> that resulted in widespread concern of a possible second coming of the Chernobyl disaster, though those fears have not come to fruition yet. Two people were injured in the conflict.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said its forces now control the facility, which is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, while International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mario Grossi said in a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iaea.org\/newscenter\/pressreleases\/update-11-iaea-director-general-statement-on-situation-in-ukraine\">statement<\/a> that the plant continues to be operated by its regular staff and there had been no release of radioactive material.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a war crime to attack a nuclear power plant. Putin&#8217;s shelling of Europe&#8217;s largest nuclear plant takes his reign of terror one step further. #TheHague #Zaporizhzhia #StandwithUkraine,&#8221; the embassy <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USEmbassyKyiv\/status\/1499708231903547394?s=20&#038;t=pAqPFCXIp8OS5cJlpjdFmQ\">said<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n<p><b><u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/experts-fear-dangerous-putin-now-in-unwinnable-war-with-no-off-ramp\">EXPERTS FEAR DANGEROUS PUTIN CLOSING IN ON &#8216;UNWINNABLE WAR&#8217; WITH &#8216;NO OFF-RAMP&#8217;<\/a><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian officials <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/fire-ukraine-nuclear-power-plant-zaporizhzhya-extinguished\">announced<\/a> hours later that the fire \u201cwas extinguished,\u201d and they told the International Atomic Energy Agency that the fire \u201chas not affected \u2018essential\u2019 equipment,\u201d according to an IAEA <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iaeaorg\/status\/1499571709774422017\">update<\/a>, which also noted that \u201cplant personnel [are] taking mitigatory actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the lucky break, IAEA officials put their Incident and Emergency Center \u201cin full response mode due to the situation,\u201d the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iaea.org\/newscenter\/pressreleases\/update-10-iaea-director-general-statement-on-situation-in-ukraine\">announced<\/a>, and in a new <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iaea.org\/newscenter\/pressreleases\/update-11-iaea-director-general-statement-on-situation-in-ukraine\">update<\/a>, the IAEA said it had been informed by Ukrainian officials that the \u201clocalized\u201d blaze was in a \u201ctraining building in the vicinity of one of the plant\u2019s reactor units.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. senior defense official told reporters Friday that they hadn&#8217;t seen any evidence of &#8220;radioactive leakage.&#8221; The official could not refute that Russians had overtaken the facility, but could not speak to the possible continuation of operation there.<\/p>\n<p>Of the six reactors, Unit 1 is down for maintenance, Units 2 and 3 have undergone a controlled shutdown, Unit 4 is operating at 60% power, and the final two are being held in low power mode, the IAEA explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m extremely concerned about the situation at the Zaporizhzhia NPP and what happened there during the night. Firing shells in the area of a nuclear power plant violates the fundamental principle that the physical integrity of nuclear facilities must be maintained and kept safe at all time,\u201d Grossi said.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of resorting to \u201cnuclear terror\u201d as he maintained that Ukrainian forces have tried to avoid any \u201cprovocation\u201d at the plant.<\/p>\n<p>NATO allies have tried to support the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ukraine\">Ukrainian<\/a> defense while stopping short of direct involvement in the conflict for fear of a war between nuclear-weapon states. Various countries have provided arms and humanitarian supplies to Ukraine, though the fighting around the largest nuclear power plant in Europe raised the specter of a nuclear crisis even without NATO\u2019s intervention.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv accused the Russian troops who attacked the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine, of committing \u201ca war crime.\u201d A Russian projectile hit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}