russia\u2019s foreign intelligence service (SVR) has claimed that \u201cthe West is preparing to accuse moscow\u201d of a potential accident at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), alleging that \u201cNATO countries are supposedly urging Kyiv to carry out a sabotage attack on the plant that would cause casualties among Ukrainians and EU citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f Such accusations have no basis in reality and may indicate that russia itself is preparing a provocation at the ZNPP. However, the main goal of these statements is to intimidate the population of Ukraine and European countries.<\/p>\n
russian intelligence agencies regularly issue fake \u201cwarnings\u201d in advance \u2014 accusing Ukraine or the West of preparing terrorist attacks \u2014 in order to shift responsibility if russia commits such acts itself and to create a desired informational backdrop. The SVR has already made similar \u201cpredictions\u201d about sabotage on pipelines, terrorist attacks in Europe, and assaults on critical infrastructure facilities \u2014 none of which have ever come true.<\/p>\n
russia bears full responsibility for the safety of the ZNPP, as it is the occupying power, has deployed military equipment on the plant\u2019s territory, and continues to exert pressure on its personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
russia\u2019s foreign intelligence service (SVR) has claimed that \u201cthe West is preparing to accuse moscow\u201d of a potential accident at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), alleging that \u201cNATO countries are supposedly urging Kyiv to carry out a sabotage attack on the plant that would cause casualties among Ukrainians and EU citizens.\u201d \u25ab\ufe0f Such accusations…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}