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The Russian military has provided new details on the botched Ukrainian raid on the Zaporozhye nuclear plant

Kiev forces wanted to seize the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant in a daring military raid and use the personnel of the UN nuclear watchdog as “human shields” to maintain control over the facility, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Thursday.

The botched raid came shortly before a team of experts with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – including the organization’s head, Rafael Grossi – arrived at the plant for an inspection. According to the Russian military, multiple Ukrainian “saboteur groups” crossed the Kakhovka Reservoir in speedboats and barges near the plant early in the morning, but were intercepted and destroyed by Russian troops and National Guard forces.

“Obviously, if the operation of the Kiev regime to seize the station was a success, the head of the IAEA, [Rafael] Grossi, and the experts of the mission would become a ‘human shield’ for Ukrainian saboteurs to prevent any attempts to destroy them by the Russian armed forces,” the Russian MoD said in a statement.

The operation aimed at capturing the nuclear power plant appears to have been “planned in advance by Zelensky’s regime,” the Russian military suggested. Moreover, the delay in Grossi’s visit to the installation, originally planned for August 31, stemmed from the Ukrainians’ need for more time to get ready for that “military provocation,” it alleged.

The ultimate goal of the operation was seizing control of the plant, while the presence of the IAEA team would have allowed the “saboteurs” to not only take cover from any potential Russian actions, but also to cement the new “status quo,” the military said. The success of the operation would have likely been reinforced by a “new wave of loud statements from Washington and European capitals, calling upon Russia to establish a ‘demilitarized zone’ around the nuclear plant, with IAEA observers guarded by Ukrainian troops,” it asserted.

“In this regard, we fully understand the complete silence of all Western sponsors of the Zelensky regime, which de-facto confirms their tacit participation in the preparation of today’s provocation at the Zaporozhye plant,” the military concluded.

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From Peter Hitchens blog in Daily Mail:

I ask you to think very hard about what the Prime Minister said in Kiev a few days ago: ‘If we’re paying in our energy bills for the evils of Vladimir Putin, the people of Ukraine are paying in their blood.’

Mr Johnson added: ‘We must keep going. We must show as friends of Ukraine that we have the same strategic endurance as the leaders of Ukraine.’

Must we? Till when? Is this either a conservative or a patriotic thing to say? Is it even sensible? Pause before you answer. War is often popular to begin with. But it has a nasty way of ruining the lives of those who once cheered for it.

By the middle of the First World War, Britain had bankrupted itself and the flower of our young manhood had been churned into the Flanders mud. Millions had paid, both in blood and wealth, a savage price for a war that almost all would one day agree was a mistake.

Lord Lansdowne, a veteran Tory and former Foreign Secretary, wrote to The Times newspaper to suggest it was time to make peace.

The Times refused to publish the letter. He was pretty much driven from public life. He was falsely derided as an unpatriotic defeatist, when he was the opposite.

If he had been listened to, we would have had no Russian Revolution, no Stalin, no Hitler, no Mussolini, and no Second World War.

Britain would have survived as a major power for many decades longer than she did. Almost all wars end in ugly compromise. We were only able to defeat Hitler because Stalin was on our side, and he exacted a huge price – including gobbling up Poland, the country whose independence we had gone to war to save.

I’m not going to argue at length about what the war in Ukraine really is, though I view it as a futile conflict.

I think it was brought about by long years of stupid goading of Russia by the USA – and by the even stupider decision by Putin to respond with a lawless, gory invasion. That’s my view, dismiss it if you like.

After all, what do I know? I’ve only lived in the region and been closely interested in it for decades. So I’m disqualified from the national debate – under the rule that it is now a positive disadvantage to know anything about the subject under discussion.

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Putin laughs again....

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The West launched all-out economic war on Russia. It failed. Russia's retaliation now threatens to cripple Europe. Only fools could be surprised-AC

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G-7 Backs Price-Cap Plan for Russian Oil to Limit Revenue

EU would need to amend sanctions package to allow change

US says price cap would help ease pressure on oil markets


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/g-7-set-to-back-plan-to-introduce-cap-on-price-of-russian-oil?srnd=premium-europe&sref=cus85deZ#xj4y7vzkg

Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that Moscow would not supply oil to those states that would support the introduction of a limit on fuel prices from Russia.
According to the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, with the introduction of price restrictions on Russian oil, fuel will be sent to countries operating on market conditions.
According to Vladimir Putin, the policy of containing and weakening Russia is a long-term strategy for Western countries, and sanctions have dealt a serious blow to the entire global economy. He noted that the main goal of the West is to worsen the lives of millions of people.

MOSCOW, September 2 - RIA Novosti. Gazprom received a warning from Rostekhnadzor about a malfunction of the only working engine for the Nord Stream gas pipeline, the pipeline has been completely stopped until the faults are eliminated, the company said.
It will be clarified that during joint maintenance with Siemens representatives at the Trent 60 gas compressor unit (GPA No. 24) of the Portovaya compressor station, an oil leak was detected. It was found on equipment that is part of the engine.

“A warning from Rostekhnadzor has been received that the detected damage does not allow for the safe operation of the gas turbine engine. It is necessary to take appropriate measures and suspend the operation of the Trent 60 gas compressor unit due to the identified gross violations,” the statement says.
Gazprom has already sent a letter to the President and CEO of Siemens Energy AG, Christian Bruch, about the identified faults and the need to eliminate them.

As the Russian corporation said, similar leaks were previously found on gas compressor units with engines No. 075, No. 076 and No. 120, they underwent a factory overhaul and are now in a state of forced downtime. It is noted that, according to Siemens, the complete elimination of the problem is possible only in the conditions of a specialized repair company.
Since Wednesday, August 31, Gazprom has suspended supplies via Nord Stream for three days. The company explained that this was due to routine maintenance at the only working gas compressor unit (GCU) of the Portovaya compressor station (CS).

Nord Stream, the main route for gas supplies from Russia to Europe, has been operating with restrictions since mid-June, and has been operating at only 20 percent of its nearly 170 million cubic meters of capacity per day since the end of July. Moscow stressed that the decline in supplies was due solely to the sanctions, which caused problems with the maintenance and repair of Siemens gas pumping units. Now the line is provided by only one turbine.
On the eve of the press secretary of the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov, called the situation around the pipeline a crisis, but noted that Gazprom was not to blame for this, since it had repeatedly expressed its readiness to continue fulfilling its obligations, but the European side itself was preventing this.

Could this be an answer to the "price cap"? Could be just a "coincidence"...
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VIENNA, September 2 - RIA Novosti. The IAEA mission recorded traces of the shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the physical integrity of the plant was violated several times, the director general of the agency Rafael Grossi said upon arrival in Vienna.
“We see military activity around the station. My team and I saw holes, marks on the buildings from shelling. This means that the physical integrity was violated not once, but several times,” he said.

Grossi said that he could present a report on the situation at the ZNPP at the beginning of next week, "as soon as there is a complete picture of what is happening."
He also confirmed that the IAEA is establishing a permanent presence at the station, where two inspectors will continue to work.

The day before, the IAEA mission arrived at the ZNPP. The head of the delegation of "Rosatom" and the staff of the station led the members of the organization through its territory and showed the areas affected by the shelling of Ukrainian troops.
Zaporozhye NPP is located on the left bank of the Dnieper. It is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe in terms of the number of units and installed capacity. Since March, it has been under the protection of the Russian military. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, this is necessary to prevent the leakage of nuclear and radioactive materials. Ukrainian troops continue to regularly shell Energodar, the surrounding villages and the territory of the station adjacent to the city.

Sound good so far. However, it is not his job or competence to identify who is responsible for those "holes".
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Translated from Rybar:
Against the background of the "counteroffensive" in the Kherson direction, which takes place mainly in the Telegram, censorship has been increased for Ukrainian journalists. All war correspondents were recalled from the front, in addition, they were given "recommendations", which are in the nature of requirements.

These are the directives:

▪️Journalists are forbidden to evaluate the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

▪️Only the military leadership reports on the course of hostilities, that is, you cannot rely on information from ordinary military personnel or field commanders

▪️It is forbidden to interpret the military situation in an alternative way from the official one

▪️Your own predictions are prohibited

▪️Only officials of the Armed Forces of Ukraine report on all military actions, their consequences and results

Such an approach should hide the failed results of the “counteroffensive” and prevent the demoralization of both the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and ordinary Ukrainians.

That, allegedly, is an oil leak on the "North stream 1" pipeline engine.
Give me a tissue...

Destruction of the ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Partizanskoye, Nikolaev direction.

Control over Blagodatny allows the Russian army to expand the geography of its attacks on Ukrainian positions in the Mykolaiv region.

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