Ukraine destroys Russian train with 40 fuel tanks in Zaporizhzhia Oblast

The aim of the operation was to disrupt a supply line used to transport #fuel from #Crimea to #Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

The operation was carried out jointly by the the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the Ukrainian army's #Tavria Group, the Military Intelligence Agency (HUR), and the Special Operations Forces (SSO).

The operation began with the #SBU organizing a sabotage mission to destroy railroad tracks near the village of #Oleksiivka in the #Bilmak district, the source said.

As the train carrying 40 fuel tanks was moving along the tracks, an explosion derailed the train, and some of the tanks ignited, according to the source.

Using #HIMARS rockets, the Ukrainian forces targeted the locomotive and the outermost cars, preventing #Russian forces from ripping apart the tanks and saving some of the fuel.

The operation resulted in the complete destruction of the locomotive and 40 fuel tanks, effectively crippling key #SupplyLine to Russian forces in the region and rendering the targeted rail line inoperable, the source said.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-dorces-disrupt-key-russian-fuel-supply-line-in-zaporizhzhia/

#RussiaInvadedUkraine #StandWithUkraine #Ukraine #railway

Ukraine destroys Russian train with 40 fuel tanks in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, source claims

The source said that the aim of the operation was to disrupt a supply line used to transport fuel from Crimea to the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia.

Ukrainian military intelligence denies involvement in drone explosion at #Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

"The aggressor state once again endangers the nuclear facility," Yusov said. "Russian strikes, in particular false flag strikes, on the territory of the Ukrainian #nuclear power plant, as well as the deployment of troops and weapons there and mining of ZNPP facilities, have long been a well-known and constant criminal practice."

"Russia should withdraw troops from all #ZNPP facilities, only this will allow to restore compliance with all necessary international norms and control over an important nuclear energy facility."

https://kyivindependent.com/media-ukrainian-intelligence-denies-involvement-in-drone-explosion-at-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant/

#FalseFlag #RussianAggression #RussiaInvadedUkraine #StandWithUkraine

Media: Ukrainian military intelligence denies involvement in drone explosion at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

"Ukraine is not involved in any armed provocations on the territory of the illegally occupied nuclear plant," the spokesperson Andrii Yusov said, adding that Russian false flag strikes were a frequent occurrence.

Growing number of widows as fighting drags on

The war in Ukraine is nearing the end of its second year, since Russia launched its full scale invasion. As the fighting continues, the number of women who h...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #RussianinvasionofUkraine #Ukraine #Ukraineinvasion #Ukrainewar #Ukrainianpresident #Zaporizhzhia #Zaporizhzhiaattack #Zarichne #Zarichneattack #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines #southernUkraine #ukrainelatestnews #volodymyrzelenskyy
Growing number of widows as fighting drags on

Ukraine orders investigation after Russian attack on brigade ceremony

Ukraine has begun a criminal investigation after a group of soldiers attending an “award ceremony” not far from the front line in the southern Zaporizhzhia r...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #RussianinvasionofUkraine #Ukraine #Ukraineinvasion #Ukrainewar #Ukrainianpresident #Zaporizhzhia #Zaporizhzhiaattack #Zarichne #Zarichneattack #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines #southernUkraine #ukrainelatestnews #volodymyrzelenskyy
Ukraine orders investigation after Russian attack on brigade ceremony

Ukraine’s counteroffensive: Troops try to retake southern front

For months, Ukrainian troops on the southern front line have been trying to retake roads and cut off Russian supply lines. Al Jazeera spoke to soldiers poise...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Robotyne #Ukraine #Ukrainecounteroffensive #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiaconflict #Ukrainiantroops #Zaporizhzhia #aljazeera #aljazeeraenglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines
Ukraine’s counteroffensive: Troops try to retake southern front

IAEA: Previously reported mines remain at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

The monitoring mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has observed previously reported anti-personnel mines at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

The team did not observe any heavy weapons during their walkdowns but confirmed that the previously reported mines remain in place

https://kyivindependent.com/iaea-observes-mines-at-russian-occupied-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-hears-explosions-distance-away/

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IAEA: Previously reported mines remain at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

The monitoring mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has observed previously reported anti-personnel mines at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Rafael Grossi, the agency's director general, said in a...

Russia destroyed all Leopard tanks supplied to Ukraine by Poland, Portugal: Shoigu | Al Arabiya English

Russian forces destroyed 16 German-made #Leopard tanks or actually 100 percent of the tanks supplied to Kyiv by Poland and Portugal, #Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu claimed on Monday.
“In the south #Donetsk, #Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk directions alone where Ukrainian armed formations are undertaking unsuccessful attacks, the groupings of Russian forces destroyed 15 aircraft, three helicopters and 920 pieces of armor, including 16 Leopard tanks. This is actually 100 percent of the tanks of this type supplied by #Poland and #Portugal,” Shoigu said as cited by state news agency #TASS.

#ukraine #Russia #ukrainewar #germany #politics

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2023/07/03/Russia-destroyed-all-Leopard-tanks-supplied-to-Ukraine-by-Poland-Portugal-Shoigu

Russia destroyed all Leopard tanks supplied to Ukraine by Poland, Portugal: Shoigu

Russian forces destroyed 16 German-made Leopard tanks or actually 100 percent of the tanks supplied to Kyiv by Poland and Portugal, Russia’s Defense

Russia reducing number of personnel at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant – reports

Russia is gradually reducing the number of personnel at the occupied #Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in southern Ukraine, Ukraine’s military intelligence agency said on Friday.

“According to the latest data, the occupation contingent is gradually leaving the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant,” the main directorate of intelligence at the defence ministry (GUR) said on the Telegram messaging app.

#GUR said that among the first to leave the nuclear power station were three employees of Russian state nuclear firm Rosatom who had been “in charge of the Russians’ activities”, Reuters reports.

It said Ukrainian employees who had signed a contract with Rosatom had also been advised to depart. Employees should leave by 5 July, it said, and had been told to preferably head for the Crimea peninsula, which Russia illegally seized from Ukraine in 2014.

GUR said the number of military patrols was also gradually decreasing on the plant’s vast territory and in the nearby city of Enerhodar, and that personnel remaining at the plant had been told to blame Ukraine “in case of any emergency situations”.

Russian authorities declined to comment on the claims when approached by #Reuters.

#Guardian

ISW: Russia threatens Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant sabotage

Russia may be signaling a willingness to sabotage the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to dissuade Ukrainian forces from conducting a counteroffensive in the area, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) wrote.

The experts point out that a radioactive leak would be difficult to control and could potentially impact Russian forces more than the Ukrainian ones, depending on given conditions at the time.

They also note that a radiological terror attack would render many areas in occupied southern Ukraine "uninhabitable and ungovernable," degrading Russia's hold over them.

The ISW reminded that Moscow has repeatedly used nuclear threats related to the Zaporizhzhia plant to constrain Ukraine's military actions and prevent further Western assistance to Kyiv

https://kyivindependent.com/isw-russia-likely-threatens-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-sabotage-to-dissuade-local-counteroffensive/

#RussiaInvadedUkraine #nuclear #ZNPP #ZaporizhzhiaNuclearPowerPlant #RussianWarCrimes #terrorism #ISW #radioactivity #radioactive #Zaporizhzhia #sabotage

IlOn June 12, 2023, Russian àMilitary channels published a footage showing what they claimed to be “Failed” Ukrainian Advance recently through a Russian Minefield and heavy Russian artiller near the Town of àRobotyne in the #Zaporizhzhia / àZaporozhye Sector

In Total, the destroyed column of vehicles, Ukrainian Armed Forces lost, as seen on the footage:
— 2x #German-supplied àLeopard 2A6 tanks
— 1x @Canada-supplied @Bergenpanzer 3 "Buffel" ARV (Armored Recovery Vehicle)
— 1x US-supplied M2A2 #Bradley ODS-SA IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicle)
— 1x US-supplied #MRAP International MaxxPro, which got stucked in the fields.

In addition, the Armed Forces of #Ukraine lost 3x Leopard 2R HMBV demining vehicles delivered from #Finland at once.

Some observers suggested that the some of the losses were seen in other photos, taken on June 8, like the Leopard 2A6, however the #Bergenpanzers and the case Leopard 2R are newly suffered losses

PS. Some images looks old/Farhad

#Ukraine #Crimea, #Donesks #Lugansk #Zaporizhzhia #Kherson #Battlefields
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Pay attention to more than just the conflict
#Demographics of Ukraine
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IAEA Chief: Situation at Zaporizhzhia NP Plant Dangerous

On Tuesday, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) cautioned that the nuclear safety and security status at the #Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant situated in Ukraine is extremely fragile and dangerous.

"Military activities continue in the region and may well increase very considerably in the near future," #IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said in a UN Security Council briefing.

According Grossi, despite being in a temporary shut-down is not sustainable, the plant has been operating with a notably diminished workforce,
#Russia #Ulraine #NuclearPlant #NuclearSafety #UkraineWar
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/IAEA-Chief-Situation-at-Zaporizhzhia-NP-Plant-Dangerous-20230531-0003.html

IAEA Chief: Situation at Zaporizhzhia NP Plant Dangerous

<p>"Military activities continue in the region and may well increase very considerably in the near future"</p>

The IAEA confirms #Russia has placed #explosives near #Zaporizhzhia #nuclear plant Unit 4

There was a landmine explosion near the plant in late April according to the #IAEA

The IAEA has also been tracking Russian military equipment at Unit 2 since the summer

Many potential catalysts for a disaster remain. The IAEA passed this info on to #Ukraine’s State Atomic Regulation body"

#UkraineWar

Please, be aware that the following might cause emotional reactions.

Towns were taken over by the Russian military without any fighting, there were no mass demonstrations by residents, and on the contrary, former citizens of #Ukraine began to acquire Russian citizenship en masse. This was radically different from what was happening, for example, in another Russian-speaking region of eastern Ukraine, the Kharkov region.

The answer lies in the manner in which the Kiev regime had governed this Russian-speaking area over the past decade.>In the late Soviet period, the #Zaporizhzhia region was one of Ukraine’s leading agrarian and industrial zone, with industry concentrated in the regional center, the city of Zaporizhzhia and several other towns. The rest of the region was a typical agrarian area.

The main goal of the corrupt Ukrainian authorities was to get rid of inhabitants of the rural part of the region, consolidate large volumes of highly fertile and irrigated agricultural land, and then sell or lease it to Western corporations, either directly or through Ukrainian oligarchs.
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#AZMOL #British#Petrochemicals #colony #NCH-Capital

The Most Undervalued Assets In Europe Are Now In Eastern Ukraine. Who Is The First To Benefit?

During the armed conflict in Ukraine in 2022, Kiev lost, and Moscow gained, a significant part of the south of...

https://twitter.com/igorlachenkov/status/1575768932660957184

#russia #war #Zaporizhzhia

Did someone read the #NYT article?

Is the following confirmed, or is it just another story of the New York Times.?

U.S. Finally Admits #Ukraine #Bombs #Zaporizhzhia’s #Nuclear-Power-Plant

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/09/16/u-s-finally-admits-ukraine-bombs-zaporizhzhias-nuclear-power-plant/

Unnamed American officials, according to the New York Times,

Doesn't sound very trustworthy.

U.S. Finally Admits Ukraine Bombs Zaporizhzhia’s Nuclear Power Plant - Modern Diplomacy

Unnamed American officials, according to the New York Times, have admitted that the explosives fired against Ukraine’s nuclear power

The head of the #Russia-appointed administration in Enerhodar city, near the besieged nuclear facility, said the #Zaporizhzhia plant was struck again by Ukrainian fire.

#UkraineWar #Ukraine

U.N. Nuclear Chief: Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Plant Is ‘Out of Control,’ Urges Inspections

#Russia #UkraineWar #UN #IAEA
Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press that the situation is getting more perilous every day at the #Zaporizhzhia plant in the southeastern city of #Enerhodar, which Russian troops seized in early March, soon after their Feb. 24. invasion of #Ukraine.

“Every principle of nuclear safety has been violated” at the plant, he said. “What is at stake is extremely serious and extremely grave and dangerous.”

Grossi cited many violations of the plant’s safety, adding that it is “in a place where active war is ongoing,” near Russian-controlled territory.

https://time.com/6203033/zaporizhzhia-ukraine-nuclear-plant-safety/

U.N. Nuclear Chief: Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Plant Is ‘Out of Control,’ Urges Inspections

The IAEA's Rafael Grossi urged Russia and Ukraine to allow experts to visit the sprawling Zaporizhzhia plant.

The fact that the Ukrainian forces had to abandon those territories in the first place was the result of a miscalculation. They had been taken by Russian forces in the early days of the invasion. According to Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National #Security and Defense Council of #Ukraine, as he noted in a Liga.net article on June 18, Ukraine had expected the main Russian attack to come from the territory of the self-proclaimed #DNR and #LNR and consequently concentrated its most combat-ready units there.
This blunder left the south relatively unprotected for an invasion from #Crimea, which enabled the rapid Russian advance toward #Mariupol and the occupation of #Kherson and #Zaporizhzhia regions. It also created the threat of #Mykolaiv and #Odesa being occupied, while for some time part of the Russian strategy seemed to be to take the entire Black Sea coast of Ukraine, in effect creating a land bridge from Russia all the way to #Transnistria in #Moldova.
Though that has not been achieved and is unlikely to be achievable in light of the successful Ukrainian counteroffensive, what Russia did achieve after the fall of Mariupol is a land corridor to Crimea, which was among #Moscow’s key strategic objectives from the beginning.

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https://twitter.com/OtukaKarnerMSF/status/1510311082992230402

#Ukraine #Zaporizhzhia #Lviv