{"id":1364283,"date":"2022-03-08T09:11:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1364283"},"modified":"2022-03-08T09:16:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:16:25","slug":"russia-accuses-ukraine-of-plotting-to-blow-up-nuclear-reactor-in-false-flag-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-accuses-ukraine-of-plotting-to-blow-up-nuclear-reactor-in-false-flag-op\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Accuses Ukraine of Plotting to Blow Up Nuclear Reactor in False Flag Op"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Frussia-accuses-ukraine-of-plotting-to-blow-up-nuclear-reactor-in-false-flag-op%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=1364283&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><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\">Russia<\/a> <span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">h<\/span>as levied jarring accusations at Ukraine, accusing its neighbor of seeking to blow up a nuclear reactor and trying to pin the blame on Russia, according to Russian state media TASS. <\/p>\n<p>Military officials in Russia claim foreign journalists arrived in <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/rocket-kills-civilians-in-kharkiv-key-ukraine-port-poised-to-fall-russian-maestro-booted-for-backing-putin\">Kharkiv<\/a> on Sunday to &#8220;register the consequences of the provocation&#8221; and that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a> planned to accuse Russia falsely of launching projectiles at the reactor, TASS reported. <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/kremlin-provides-list-of-demands-to-ukraine-for-ending-war\">KREMLIN PROVIDES LIST OF DEMANDS TO UKRAINE FOR ENDING WAR<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Security Forces of Ukraine along with the militants of the Azov battalion are plotting a provocation with possible radioactive contamination of the area near the city of Kharkov. Nationalists mined a reactor at an experimental nuclear system located at the [National Research Center of] Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology. The Ukrainian military and the Azov battalion militants are planning to blow up the reactor and accuse the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly launching a missile strike on an experimental nuclear system,&#8221; Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said in a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/defense\/1418059?utm_source=google.com&#038;utm_medium=organic&#038;utm_campaign=google.com&#038;utm_referrer=google.com\">statement to TASS<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Russia also recently accused Ukraine of attempting to develop a &#8220;plutonium-based dirty bomb nuclear weapon&#8221; at Chernobyl<i>, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russia-without-evidence-says-ukraine-making-nuclear-dirty-bomb-2022-03-06\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/i> reported. Chernobyl was subject to one of the worst known nuclear disasters in history during its 1986 meltdown. Ukraine shut down the last of the reactors at the site in 2000 and has since <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/chernobyl-exclusion-zone\">constructed a confinement<\/a> structure over the reactor. A group of scientists maintained the facility until Russian forces took over during its invasion, according to <i><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/chernobyl-power-plant-captured-by-russian-forces-ukrainian-official-2022-02-24\/\">Reuters<\/a>. <\/i> <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Like I said a week ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Russia?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Russia<\/a> has been planning a CBW and\/or nuclear false flag in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ukraine?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ukraine<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Well now <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Putin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Putin<\/a> govt is falsely reporting that Ukraine has rigged a reactor in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kharkov?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kharkov<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>ANY NUKE,CHEMICAL OR BIOLOGICAL INCIDENT IN UKRAINE IS A RUSSIAN FALSE FLAG<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcorubio\/status\/1500660140307099649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2022<\/a>\n             <\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The war in Ukraine has sparked renewed concerns about nuclear proliferation as tensions between Russia and nuclear-armed nations such as the United States deteriorate to post-Cold War lows. In February, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia&#8217;s nuclear deterrent be <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/putin-orders-nuclear-deterrent-forces-on-alert-amid-growing-tensions\">put on high alert<\/a> amid the war in Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/video-shows-fate-of-the-planet-decided-at-captured-ukrainian-nuclear-plant\">raised alarms<\/a> last week about a Russian military operation near a nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia. Russia seemingly sought to take control of the facility, which could help it cut off power to parts of Ukraine. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/chernobyl-fears-ukraine-nuclear-power-plant-fire-russian-shelling\/\">Zelensky said<\/a> the shelling of the facility had the potential to create a catastrophe that could threaten all of Europe. Russian forces ultimately captured the facility, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/04\/1084477966\/nuclear-power-plant-zaporizhzhia-ukraine\">NPR reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Ukraine briefly held the third-largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons in the world following the collapse of the Soviet Union before signing the Budapest Memorandum. Though the weapons were stored in Ukraine, Russia maintained the launch controls of the nuclear weapons during that brief time, according to the U.S. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dtra.mil\/Portals\/61\/Documents\/History\/With%20Courage%20and%20Persistence%20CTR.pdf?ver=2016-05-09-102902-893\">Defense Threat Reduction Agency<\/a>. Ukraine agreed to give up the weapons in exchange for debt relief and a security guarantee from the U.S., Russia, and the United Kingdom. <\/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>Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Ukraine of trying to &#8220;acquire their own nuclear weapons.&#8221; International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi cast doubt on those claims. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The issue for us, it\u2019s very clear. We do not have any information that would question the nonproliferation credentials of Ukraine,\u201d he told the <i><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/ukraine-isnt-working-on-nuclear-weapons-u-n-official-says-in-rebuke-to-russia-11646242303\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/i>. \u201cWe do not have any information that there is any deviation of material, any undeclared material or activities leading to the development of nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has levied jarring accusations at Ukraine, accusing its neighbor of seeking to blow up a nuclear reactor and trying to pin the blame on Russia, according to<\/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-1364283","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\/1364283","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=1364283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364283\/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=1364283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}