{"id":1594148,"date":"2022-08-08T09:33:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1594148"},"modified":"2022-08-08T09:33:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:33:33","slug":"russia-ukraine-blame-each-other-for-strikes-on-europes-largest-nuclear-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-ukraine-blame-each-other-for-strikes-on-europes-largest-nuclear-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia &#038; Ukraine Blame Each Other For Strikes On Europe\u2019s Largest Nuclear Plant"},"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\">26<\/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-ukraine-blame-each-other-for-strikes-on-europes-largest-nuclear-plant%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=1594148&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<p class=\"subheading\">(AFP) \u2013 Kyiv and Moscow accused each other of striking Europe\u2019s largest nuclear site on Friday, causing a reactor stoppage as three grain ships departed Ukraine under a deal to avert food shortages.<\/p>\n<p>Russian troops have occupied the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine since the early days of their invasion and Kyiv has accused them of storing heavy weapons there. Moscow, in turn, has accused Ukrainian forces of targeting the plant.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThree strikes were recorded on the site of the plant, near one of the power blocks where the nuclear reactor is located,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s state-run nuclear power plant operator Energoatom said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are risks of hydrogen leakage and radioactive spraying. The fire danger is high,\u201d Energoatom said. It did not report any casualties.<\/p>\n<p>It said staff of Russian nuclear operator Rosatom had hastily left the plant before the attacks, which damaged a power cable and forced one of the reactors to stop working.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in his daily video address said Russia should \u201ctake responsibility for the very fact of creating a threat to a nuclear plant\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, the occupiers have created another extremely risky situation for all of Europe: they struck the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant twice. Any bombing of this site is a shameless crime, an act of terror,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian foreign ministry earlier said the \u201cpossible consequences of hitting a working reactor are equivalent to using an atomic bomb\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The defence ministry in Moscow denied the reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUkrainian armed units carried out three artillery strikes on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and the city of Energodar,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russia and Ukraine Blame Each Other After Dozens of Azov POWs Killed in Prison Explosion <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cjYvgERFwK\">https:\/\/t.co\/cjYvgERFwK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1553712078291996673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The new spike in tensions came as Russian President Vladimir Putin was meeting his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Putin thanked Erdogan for helping orchestrate the resumption of Ukrainian grain shipments, the first of which is due to arrive in Lebanon on Sunday according to Ukraine\u2019s embassy in Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>The Sierra Leone-flagged bulk carrier Razoni set sail from the Ukrainian port of Odessa on Monday carrying 26,000 tonnes of corn \u2014 the first departure under a UN-backed deal, brokered with Turkish help, to ease the global food crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv said another three ships loaded with grain set sail from Ukraine on Friday, heading for Turkey and markets in Ireland and Britain. A further 13 are waiting to depart.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDeliveries have already begun. I want to thank you, both for this and for the fact that at the same time an accompanying decision was made on uninterrupted supplies of Russian food and fertilisers to world markets,\u201d Putin told Erdogan in Sochi.<\/p>\n<p>Asli Aydintasbas, a fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, wrote in a report last week that the war in Ukraine had \u201crestored Turkey\u2019s self-image as a key geopolitical player\u201d and given Erdogan a higher profile than at any time in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish leader wants to translate the success into truce talks in Istanbul between Putin and Zelensky.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Food Crisis: Ukraine and Russia Sign Deal to Reopen Exports of Grain<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EYDI1WGHZj\">https:\/\/t.co\/EYDI1WGHZj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1550556288710500353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Moscow meanwhile announced on Friday that it was imposing entry bans on 62 Canadian citizens including government officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian foreign ministry said the list included figures known for \u201ctheir malicious activity in the fight against the \u2018Russian world\u2019 and our traditional values\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In Ukraine, a controversy has flared over accusations that it is violating international law and endangering civilians in its fight against the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International released a report on Thursday listing incidents in 19 cities and towns where Ukrainian forces appeared to have put civilians in harm\u2019s way by establishing bases in residential areas.<\/p>\n<p>President Zelensky equated the accusations to victim-blaming. In his evening address on Thursday, he said the rights group had sought to offer \u201camnesty (to) the terrorist state and shift the responsibility from the aggressor to the victim\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no condition, even hypothetically, under which any Russian strike on Ukraine becomes justified. Aggression against our state is unprovoked, invasive and terrorist,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf someone makes a report in which the victim and the aggressor are supposedly equal in some way\u2026 then this cannot be tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty said a four-month investigation had found that the Ukrainian military had established bases in schools and hospitals, and launched attacks from populated areas.<\/p>\n<p>It said the tactics violated international humanitarian law and rebuffed criticism of its report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe findings\u2026 were based on evidence gathered during extensive investigations, which were subject to the same rigorous standards and due diligence processes as all of Amnesty International\u2019s work,\u201d secretary general Agnes Callamard told AFP in emailed comments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Such tactics violate international humanitarian law and endanger civilians, as they turn civilian objects into military targets \ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EysZtcqqci\">https:\/\/t.co\/EysZtcqqci<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amnesty International (@amnesty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amnesty\/status\/1555102965337567232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Friday, Zelensky\u2019s office and local authorities reported overnight Russian bombardments targeting the southern city of Mykolaiv with widely-banned cluster bombs and heavy artillery \u2014 wounding 20 people, including a 14-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<p>Mykolaiv is on the main route to Odessa, Ukraine\u2019s biggest port on the Black Sea, and is the closest city to the southern front.<\/p>\n<p>Several missiles struck the city of Zaporizhzhia overnight and there was heavy bombardment of Ukraine\u2019s second city Kharkiv, in the northeast.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian forces are conducting a counter-offensive in the south, where they claim to have retaken more than 50 villages previously controlled by Moscow.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kyiv Promises Major Southern Counter-Offensive, Urges Residents to Flee &#8216;Massive Fight&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q97jwRufGM\">https:\/\/t.co\/Q97jwRufGM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1545737184023560195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AFP) \u2013 Kyiv and Moscow accused each other of striking Europe\u2019s largest nuclear site on Friday, causing a reactor stoppage as three grain ships departed Ukraine under a deal to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1594301,"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-1594148","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\/1594148","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=1594148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1594301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}