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TODAY. Danger of a nuclear catastrophe as Ukraine sends missiles to Kursk area in Russia

We keep getting told how very dangerous it is for the Russians to be sending drones and now missiles into Ukraine, above all, because they might hit  Zaporizhzhia and other nuclear facilities. And yes, this is true, (although the Russians have been relatively restrained, so far, about use of missiles).

We all do know how awful this war is, and what radiological devastation would be released, if the Russians, or the Ukrainians, struck the  Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, the largest in Europe. Rafael Grossi of the International Atomic Energy regularly reminds us of that danger, – (while almost simultaneously touting nuclear power stations as so very safe, and the essential cure for climate change.)

But what we don’t hear about – in our the media’s joyous promotion of a Ukrainian victory over Russia,- is the grave danger posed by American and British missiles fired by the Ukrainians into the Russian area of Kursk.

All sorts of “good reasons” for the Ukrainians doing this – to lower the morale of Russians, to destroy masses of North Korean troops gathering in the area, to hold onto a piece of Russian land as a bargaining chip if ever there’s a negotiation with Russia.

But no mention of Kursk nuclear power station, with its four Soviet RBMK-1000 reactors. The 2 operating reactors have no protective dome.– the same design as those at the Chernobyl nuclear plant which in 1986 became the scene of the world’s worst civilian nuclear disaster. Construction of the Kursk-2 power plant is under way, using essentially new reactors of the VVER-510 type, which began in 2018.  The Kursk NPP is among the three largest nuclear facilities in the country.

In August 2024, the remains of a Ukrainian drone were found within the area of the Kursk nuclear power plant, located roughly 100 metres (328 feet) from the plant’s spent fuel nuclear storage facility.

Ukraine fired at least 10 British-provided Storm Shadow missiles into Russia’s Kursk Oblast, The Wall Street Journal and several other media outlets reported on Wednesday.

You have to look to alternative media, to get any grip on what is happening in this conflict. Dave DeCamp , writes in ANTIWAR:

The US and the UK reportedly authorized Ukraine’s use of the Storm Shadows in strikes on Russian territory after President Biden gave the green light for Ukraine to use the ATACMS, US-made missiles with a range of about 190 miles. Ukraine launched ATACMS into Russia for the first time on Tuesday.

Both the Storm Shadows and ATACMS require intelligence from Western countries for Ukraine to fire them, meaning the US and NATO are now directly supporting long-range strikes on Russian territory. 

Our corporate Western media continues with its sacred utterance that “Ukraine must and will defeat Russia”. We never hear about the previous 8 long years of the Ukraine government’s war against its own region in the Donbass, a largely Russian-speaking region, which wanted to keep its autonomous status, supposedly guaranteed by the Minsk agreements . All this precipitated Russia’s action in February 2022. Zelensky was originally elected on a platform of honouring this agreement and negotiating with Russia.

But I digress.

The thing is, we are not being told the truth about this war. And Kursk is a kind of flashpoint that the Western mindset apparently does not understand.

The battle of Kursk

It is ironic that the battle of Kursk in 1943, the single largest battle in the history of warfare , is regarded as the “last gasp of Nazi aggression“. The Nazis invaded Kursk, but were defeated by the Russian forces. Russia lost an estimated 800,00 casualties. This battle, along with the Battle of Stalingrad several months earlier, is regarded as a turning point in World War 2.

It is sad, that in recent commemorations of World War 2, the role of Russia in defeating the Nazis is somehow erased. Oh well, we know from Hollywood’s portrayal of this war, it was the Americans who beat the Nazis.

NATO supports the missile attacks on Russian territory. It is possible that Kursk – the scene of a huge defeat of the 1943 German Nazi war machine, – could now be destroyed by the NATO-USA war machine, which includes Germany

November 23, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized