Flipping through an old diary:

Joe Biden in 1997:

The only thing that can tip a "vigorous and hostile" reaction from Russia is the admission into NATO of the Baltic states.

Which actually happened.

The process of NATO expansion was planned and aimed at conflict, weakening and complete dismemberment of Russia, long before many of us were born.

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🗣'[The Ukrainian war] started in February 2014 with the violent overthrow of President Yanukovich'. American economist Jeffrey Sachs talks about the reasons of Ukrainian conflict. 'I don't think that this is some idea of recreating the Russian Empire,' he notes.

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"Vihr-1" anti-tank missile strikes recorded in June

Russian attack helicopters Ka-52 with the help of this complex destroyed dozens of pieces of equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including German tanks Leopard 2A6.

They worked mainly on advancing enemy armoured groups in the Zaporozhye region.

Video compiled by @lostarmour.

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The Russian military destroy the equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the vicinity of Bakhmut. Video source: @garmaev_alexander.
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Russia is unlikely to provoke a radiation incident at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the Institute for the Study of War (USA) believes.

"Russia will not be able to control the consequences of this incident, which will reduce Russia's ability to act and govern in the occupied south of Ukraine," the Institute's experts believe.

ISW believes that the consequences of the radiological incident now "outweigh any benefits to the Russian forces."

At the same time, Russia is likely to use such a threat "to deter Ukrainian counter-offensives and weaken support for Western military assistance to Ukraine."

Our sources report that a provocation at the ZNPP is planned from July 5 to 9, so that this event becomes a trigger in the West and radically changes the agenda of the NATO summit. British intelligence suggests that the General Staff use the situation for Operation D-Day to carry out a landing operation on the left bank of the Dnieper.

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The Growing Cash Pile in Moscow That Investors Can’t Touch
—Foreign investors are still earning income from Russian assets
—Most believe they’ll never be able to access the cash
Bloomberg
Billions of dollars are accumulating in Moscow beyond the reach of its foreign owners.

Stock dividends, interest payments on bonds and anything else that Western investors didn’t sell before the war — it’s all part of the pile of money that’s been trapped by sanctions.

The accounts are remnants of what’s left of Russia’s ties to the world of international finance, and another marker of its growing isolation. As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine begins a second year and anti-war demonstrations take place this week, questions remain about what will happen to the cash stuck in Moscow.

Legally, the money belongs to some of the biggest investment houses, like JPMorgan Asset Management and Schroders Plc, but privately most acknowledge there’s no hope of recovery. At least, not while Vladimir Putin remains leader.

“You have marked it to zero, you have to forget about it,” said Tim Love at GAM Investment Management, who owned Russian stocks as part of an emerging equity fund. “The market is still there, but when one talks of repatriating dividends or accessing the underlying security, it all comes down to sanctions.”

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Following questions from our subscriber we made a small research on what is the nuclear waste facility at the ZNPP. The interest to it has risen recently for all known bad reasons.

Nuclear waste storage facility of Zaporozhye NPP: is there a danger to the population and nature?

The troops of the Kyiv regime have already shelled the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant several times. On August 11, shells fell in the immediate vicinity of the spent nuclear fuel storage facility. What does it represent?
A dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel has been in operation at the Zaporozhye NPP since 2001. Its technology is based on the storage of spent fuel assemblies in ventilated concrete containers located on a special fenced area within the station.
The storage volume is 380 containers, which ensures the storage of fuel assemblies for 50 years.
The nuclear waste storage pool, like the reactors, is in a hermetic shell. It is a concrete cap that covers all the key systems of the nuclear power plant. According to the standards, its strength is designed to withstand even a nuclear strike close to the station.
On the industrial site of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, in addition to six operating reactors, there is a SSF (dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel). It is an open bunded area, on which, as of last year, there were 165 containers with nuclear waste.
Each container manufactured by the American company Holtec is a sealed unit: 30-40 fuel assemblies surrounded by 10 cm of steel and about half a meter of concrete.
According to the IAEA, in the event of the destruction of the storage facility, the zone of contamination with radioactive materials can make up an area with a radius of up to 200 km, that is, the entire Zaporozhye region, part of the Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson regions, as well as the territory of the DPR.

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Rosenergoatom named the amount of radioactive materials at ZNPP

Renat Karchaa, adviser to the general director of the concern, noted that it is 50 tons
MOSCOW, 25 October. /TASS/. The amount of radioactive materials in the dry storage facility for nuclear waste (DSNF) on the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP is 50 tons. Renat Karchaa, adviser to the general director of the Rosenergoatom concern, announced this on Tuesday.

"There are 50 tons of radioactive materials," he said on the air of Channel One. Karchaa noted that the impact of shells on the ISFSF would lead to the appearance of a radiation background. He added that due to the amount of radioactive materials in the repository, "the background would not be weak."

ZNPP is the largest of the currently operating in Europe. Russia took control of it on February 28, in the early days of a special military operation in Ukraine. On September 11, the last working sixth power unit of ZNPP was shut down. The shutdown was caused by the actions of the Ukrainian security forces, who purposefully attacked power lines. On October 11, adviser to the general director of the Rosenergoatom concern, Renat Karchaa, announced that the supply of electricity to the Zaporozhye NPP through the power line had been resumed.

On October 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the transfer of nuclear facilities at the ZNPP to federal ownership. He also instructed to create a federal state unitary enterprise "Zaporozhye NPP", which will be assigned the property of the station. On October 14, the head of Energodar, Alexander Volga, told TASS that Zaporozhye NPP had switched to work according to Russian standards.

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What is a nuclear waste storage facility and what threatens its damage
Rogov explained what a nuclear waste storage facility is and what threatens "arrival" at the facility

SIMFEROPOL, August 19 — RIA Novosti Crimea. The dry storage facility for waste nuclear fuel at the Zaporizhzhya NPP is located in the open air, "arrival" through it threatens with radiation contamination, the scale of which is difficult to predict, said Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration of the region.
"In fact, a dry storage facility for nuclear fuel waste is such high concrete barrels as high as a 2.5-story building, they contain spent fuel elements of the assembly, which can be a source of contamination and need to be isolated. These storage facilities themselves are an open area, on which these huge narrow barrels stand in the open air. There are 174 such barrels in total, and this is a lot. They contain within four thousand spent fees. Naturally, if they fly there, infection will occur," he explained on the air of the Rossiya 1 TV channel.

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