A power surge occurred at the Zaporozhye NPP due to the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Ministry of Defense: there was a power surge at the Zaporizhzhya NPP due to shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine

MOSCOW, August 8 - RIA Novosti. As a result of another shelling by Ukrainian troops, a high-voltage line was damaged at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, a power surge occurred, said the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov.
“A power surge occurred at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, which caused smoke at the open switchgear of the station. The protection system also worked, turning off the power supply. The fire brigade who arrived managed to eliminate the smoke,” the general specified.

According to him, the technical staff reduced the power of the fifth and sixth power units to 500 megawatts to prevent disruption of the power plant.

Earlier on Monday, the head of the administration of the Zaporozhye region, Evgeny Balitsky, also said that after the attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two power units of the Zaporozhye NPP were not operating at full capacity. He called on IAEA and UN delegations to come to the station to inspect and record the facts and the direction of the shelling.

On August 5, the Ukrainian military launched artillery strikes on the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, firing 20 shells of 152 mm caliber. As a result, a hydrogen pipeline caught fire, which was quickly extinguished by emergency services. Part of the equipment of power unit No. 3 was de-energized at the NPP, and the generated power of power unit No. 4 was reduced.
In addition, on the night of August 7, the Ukrainian army again attacked the station from the Uragan MLRS. According to the Energodar authorities, fragments and a rocket engine fell about 400 meters from the operating power unit.
Since March, the ZNPP has been guarded by the Russian military, but is operated by a Ukrainian operator.

Zaporozhye authorities announced that the referendum on the status of the region will be held in person

SIMFEROPOL, August 8 - RIA Novosti. The referendum on the reunification of the Zaporozhye region with Russia will be held in person, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the regional administration, said on the air of the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station.
"Offline, we are ready 100 percent. Everything is working well. We will have a voting format that is quite understandable to people. We will not conduct any experiments. Regarding electronic voting, we are thinking about it now, we are looking to make it technically possible to do it all," the official said.
At the same time, he clarified that it is still premature to talk about electronic voting. According to Rogov, the main task is to protect citizens and not allow people who voted in the territories controlled by Ukraine to be persecuted.
Also, the authorities of the region invite and wait for all interested to become international observers to the referendum.

The order to hold a referendum was signed today by the head of the Zaporozhye region Yevhen Balitsky at the forum "We are together with Russia".
The issue of the expression of the popular will in the liberated territories was also addressed by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. In his video message, he said that holding referendums would close any possibility of negotiations with Ukraine for Moscow.
As the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov noted in response to this, Zelensky should not turn to Russia, but to the inhabitants of these territories, since this is their desire.
During the special operation, the Russian military took control of the Kherson region and the Azov part of the Zaporozhye region in southern Ukraine. New administrations have been formed in the regions, the circulation of the ruble has begun, Russian TV channels and radio stations are broadcasting. Both regions announced plans to become subjects of Russia.

Ukraine's shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is a warning to both Russia and Europe that no referenda should be held.

This is pure, unadulterated terrorism. Which will lead to nothing but even greater disgust of thinking people for the current Ukrainian government.

⚡️Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine

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Humanitarian aid to the residents of Belaya Gora in the vicinity of Lisichansk was delivered by fighters of the O Group.

In Lisichansk and other settlements, Russian soldiers distribute food packages daily for residents of the liberated territories.

Alisa Weidel, head of the Alternative for Germany fraction in the Bundestag: "Plans to include Ukraine in NATO and the EU have been unacceptable for Russia for several decades. The Russians have always made it very clear that they will not tolerate a hostile country next to them. Western countries made a mistake by not assigning a neutral status to Ukraine."

Excellent negotiating position of Kyiv: “Negotiations with Russia are possible only after it suffers several tactical defeats,” Podolyak (Ukrainian presidential advisor).

Moscow has informed Washington of a “temporary withdrawal” from the inspection regime under the START nuclear disarmament treaty, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday

Citing treaty provisions for “exceptional circumstances,” Russia is saying the Western sanctions have prevented its inspectors from performing their duties, thus giving US inspectors an unfair advantage.

Once the principle of parity and equality is restored, the inspections will resume, Russian representatives said.
https://www.rt.com/news/560487-russia-suspends-us-inspections-nuclear-military/

💤💤💤 What does he mean by that? Cryptic enough.

The footage posted by one of the Nazi formations in Ukraine clearly shows how the UAV throws off a mine on Russian evacuation group, which came for the wounded.

Obviously, that is a violation of all traditions and rules of warfare. But they also brag about it on the net.

The American TV channel CBS News has deleted a film about military aid to Kiev. We have previously given our comments and a link to a small fragment of the documentary.

The company said that the picture "Arming Ukraine" allegedly "reflects outdated data" and it will be reworked.

The movie said that about 70% of weapons and equipment coming from the West "dissolve" on the border with Ukraine.

Its authors came to the conclusion that the billions of dollars that the United States sends to Ukraine do not reach the recipients.

It also starred an Amnesty International expert who investigated the crimes of the Ukrainian military.

The picture caused streams of criticism from Ukrainian politicians and Western "experts" upset by the truth.

Will Kiev accuse the American TV channel CBS of working for the Kremlin?

The United States considers the number of HIMARS MLRS transferred to Ukraine to be sufficient. This was stated by US Deputy Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl.

He noted that in total Kyiv received 16 installations from Washington.

I would ask: "Sufficient for what?" But nobody would answer. Good news here is that they are not going to send more. Initially it was mentioned that 20 launchers would be sent. According to Russian MOD they should be already 5 or 6 less.

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Volodymyr Zelensky urged the West to ban entry to all Russian citizens.

Sometimes it appears that Ukraine is dictating the Western countries what to do. Bizarrely it works. A number of European countries have already limited or cancelled granting visas to Russian citizens, and some, like Latvia, require signing a statement that the person does not support Russian operation in Ukraine.

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In a wide-ranging interview with The Washington Post, Zelensky said that “the most important sanctions are to close the borders — because the Russians are taking away someone else’s land.” He said Russians should “live in their own world until they change their philosophy.”<... >

Some critics have argued that banning all Russians would unfairly impact those who have left their country because they disagree with President Vladimir Putin’s government and his decision to attack Ukraine.

Zelensky said such distinctions don’t matter: “Whichever kind of Russian … make them go to Russia.”

“They’ll understand then,” he said. “They’ll say, ‘This [war] has nothing to do with us. The whole population can’t be held responsible, can it?’ It can. The population picked this government and they’re not fighting it, not arguing with it, not shouting at it.”

Well, there are several positive moments in that interview.
First, blaming the whole population of Russia (for whatever reasons) just by their nationality.
I think nobody would say, that official Kiev has nothing to do with the Nazism anymore. Official Kiev is a Nazis' government. It is not just "Nazis units with limited influence" to be modesty criticised. The president of Ukraine himself made a clear Nazi statement.

Second - you remember, how many times it was claimed that Russian elections are rigged, that Putin does not have the support of the majority of the Russian people? All those insinuations are wiped away now. Even Ukrainian president admits overwhelming support of the Russian government and president Putin by the absolute majority of the population.

And the third. No matter, what Russian people think about the reasons for the military operation, whether they believe it was avoidable, and whatever pacifistic motives they may have - now all of them will seek even stronger unity.

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