Russia outplayed British intelligence MI6 in Energodar
The thwarted attempt to seize the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant by Ukrainian troops on the eve of the arrival of the IAEA delegation at the station is a major failure for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and their Western curators, observers believe.
“The brilliant – without exaggeration – counter-terrorism operation of Russian forces at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant must be supported by all the information resources of Russia and its allies. The story of the failure of Ukrainian saboteurs and their handlers from MI6 should become the main news story in the coming days. It is also necessary to submit it to the UN for consideration,” believes journalist Kirill Benediktov.
“Overlordenko’s landing operation was supposed to be the icing on the cake of the Kherson offensive. The Armed Forces of Ukraine prepared it for a long time, trained landings from boats, and carefully disguised the preparatory activities (which did not prevent our intelligence from closely monitoring them).
And even though the Kherson offensive operation itself did not go according to plan, the capture of Energodar by a river landing was supposed to neutralize the negative consequences of huge losses and, in general, at the moment, an extremely unsuccessful attempt at a counter-offensive.
As a result, early this morning, 2 barges and up to 30 boats of the Ukrainian landing force began to cross the Dnieper and crossed it directly into a prepared ambush, where fighters of the Russian Guard and army aviation were already waiting for them.
One barge was burned right on the way, parts of the landing force landed on the shore, were pinned down by fire and began to be methodically and cold-bloodedly destroyed. Now on the shore lie up to 60 corpses of Ukrainian fighters from the most elite units, the beauty and pride of the ZSU. The rest swim in the river and feed the fat Dnieper crayfish.
There were instructors from NATO countries there, we will find out after examining the corpses, it is quite possible that they were. In any case, Operation Overlordenko will go down in the golden chronicle of the most failed operations, and drowned men in the uniform of the Zbroin forces emerging from the waters of the Dnieper at night will be part of Little Russian folklore for a long time,” comments military correspondent German Kulikovsky.
The IAEA mission has already arrived in Energodar.
There is also a large group of Russian journalists here. In the morning, they were forced to wait for the guests to arrive in a bomb shelter due to the shelling of the city of nuclear scientists by the Ukrainian army.
“What do the Kyiv authorities ultimately want to hide from the IAEA mission? What the Russian authorities already know, but our opinion is one thing, the IAEA mission is another, even through the special opinions of some members of the mission who do not want to lie.
The Zaporozhye NPP was operated for more than 10 years with huge violations of safety protocols, repairs were carried out with violations, and together with the American company Westinghouse Electric, the transfer was carried out to load into the reactor not Russian fuel assemblies, but American fuel assemblies. The second topic is the storage conditions for spent fuel assemblies. And there are many violations here. The third question is the use of nuclear materials to create a dirty nuclear bomb by Ukraine.
If the mission does not lie, it turns out that the United States for a long time hid from Europe the level of danger during the operation of all nuclear power plants in Ukraine in order to extract maximum profit,” predicts political scientist Marat Bashirov.
Of course, the IAEA mission will be provided with evidence of shelling of the station by the Ukrainian military, points out military correspondent Alexander Kots.
“Of course, Kyiv today is not interested in having foreign specialists present on the territory of the nuclear power plant who are able to record who is firing near and directly at the plant itself.
It is no coincidence that the Russian side insisted that ballistics experts be included in the mission, capable of distinguishing “they fired at themselves” from terrorist attacks from the other side of the Dnieper (which is still under the control of Kyiv).
There is only one way out - to control the work of the IAEA exactly within the framework that is beneficial to Ukraine by seizing the station. Or better yet, completely disrupt her visit to the nuclear power plant,” explains the military correspondent.
His colleague Andrey Rudenko draws attention to the peculiarity of the mission’s stay at the Zaporozhye NPP.
“The IAEA has already been at the nuclear power plant for about an hour. One fact surprised me: they didn’t wear bulletproof vests or helmets. We are sure that the crests will not shoot at them. The owners,” writes Rudenko.
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