{"id":1603908,"date":"2022-08-12T18:31:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T22:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1603908"},"modified":"2022-08-12T18:32:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T22:32:09","slug":"bombing-resumes-near-ukrainian-nuclear-plant-that-caught-fire-earlier-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bombing-resumes-near-ukrainian-nuclear-plant-that-caught-fire-earlier-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombing Resumes Near Ukrainian Nuclear Plant That Caught Fire Earlier This Year"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fbombing-resumes-near-ukrainian-nuclear-plant-that-caught-fire-earlier-this-year%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=1603908&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--><p>Bombing has resumed near Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> amid the ongoing <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian<\/a> invasion, prompting concerns of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nuclear-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nuclear<\/a> disaster.<\/p>\n<p>In early March, Russian forces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/10-times-larger-than-chernobyl-fire-breaks-out-at-ukrainian-nuclear-plant\">attacked and captured<\/a> Zaporizhzhia, causing a fire to break out after a projectile reportedly hit a training center. Ukrainian officials said that Russian shells again hit the site last week, putting one reactor offline and elevating the threat of radiation leaks. Russian officials, however, have in turn claimed that Ukrainian artillery strikes were responsible for the damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRenewed fighting around Europe\u2019s largest nuclear power facility at Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine poses severe ecological dangers of a prolonged nature,\u201d Brent Sadler, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation\u2019s Center for National Defense, said in a statement provided to The Daily Wire. \u201cThe Kremlin\u2019s inhumane fighting tactics blatantly disregard the public health of those within and far beyond the Ukraine\u2019s borders are not new to Russian adversaries. However, this type of nuclear terror should not be tolerated. A negotiated relocation of Russian forces around this facility is urgently needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of which party is responsible, the International Atomic Energy Agency likewise warned that hostilities at the plant must cease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the most recent information provided by Ukraine, IAEA experts have preliminarily assessed that there is no immediate threat to nuclear safety as a result of the shelling or other recent military actions. However, this could change at any moment,\u201d IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaea.org\/newscenter\/news\/hostilities-at-zaporizhzya-npp-must-stop-and-iaea-needs-to-be-allowed-to-assess-status-of-the-facility-grossi-tells-un-security-council\">told<\/a> the United Nations Security Council on Thursday. \u201cI ask that both sides of this armed conflict cooperate with the IAEA and allow for a mission to the Zaporizhzya Nuclear Power Plant as soon as possible. Time is of the essence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Petro Kotin \u2014 the head of Ukrainian national energy company Energoatom \u2014 called for Russian forces to withdraw from the facility and grant control to a team of peacekeepers. \u201cWhat we need is for Russia to just release Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and make some type of no-military zone around it,\u201d Kotin said, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/russia-ukraine-war-nuclear-disaster-fears-zaporizhzhia-plant-rcna41959\">NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the March attack, President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-responds-to-russian-attack-on-ukrainian-nuclear-plant\">spoke<\/a> with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and urged Russia to \u201ccease its military activities in the area and allow firefighters and emergency responders to access the site.\u201d The United States government then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-activates-nuclear-incident-response-team-as-russia-attacks-ukrainian-nuclear-plant\">activated<\/a> its Nuclear Incident Response Team, though Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm confirmed that \u201cthe plant\u2019s reactors are protected by robust containment structures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-sending-5-5-billion-more-in-aid-to-ukraine\">committed<\/a> on Monday to sending $5.5 billion in additional foreign and military assistance to Ukraine. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Department of Defense (DOD) have respectively sent a total of $8.5 billion and $9.8 billion to the war-torn country.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukraine conflict has produced a worldwide spike in energy costs. While prices at the pump dropped to $3.98 in the United States as of Friday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\">AAA<\/a>, figures from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/dnav\/pet\/hist\/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&#038;s=EMM_EPMR_PTE_NUS_DPG&#038;f=W\">Energy Information Administration<\/a> show that prices were $3.53 in the days before the invasion and more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gas-prices-hit-grim-national-average-of-5-per-gallon\">$5.00 per gallon<\/a> in early June. Nevertheless, gasoline was $2.39 per gallon in late January 2021 \u2014 meaning that current prices are 67% higher than at the beginning of Biden\u2019s term, with 70% of the total increase occurring before the invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bombing has resumed near Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion, prompting concerns of a nuclear disaster. In early March, Russian forces attacked and captured Zaporizhzhia, causing a fire to break out after a projectile reportedly hit a training center. Ukrainian officials said that Russian shells again hit the site last &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1603973,"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-1603908","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\/1603908","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=1603908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1603973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}