“We’ve seen very credible reports about the use of certain weapons.”Įfforts to create a humanitarian corridor to allow civilians to escape from heavily-bombarded Mariupol were largely unsuccessful on Saturday and again Sunday, with Ukraine claiming Russian troops continue to shell the area. “We’ve seen very credible reports of deliberate attacks on civilians, which would constitute a war crime,” Blinken told State of the Union. Secretary of State Antony Blinken telling CNN he was concerned. Zelensky has scorned NATO for refusing to impose a no-fly zone on his country, another move that Putin has threatened would lead to a larger war.Īs the body count rises, diplomats continue to build a case for war crimes charges against Putin, with U.S. Putin also lashed out that heavy sanctions which have crippled his country’s economy were a “akin to a declaration of war,” by the West on Saturday, adding, “thank God it has not come to that.” ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield to warn that “imminent danger continues.” They were about 20 miles from the plant-the second largest in Europe after Zaporizhzhya, prompting U.S. Congress lawmakers, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian troops were now closing in on Yuzhnoukrainsk plant near Kyiv. Chernobyl was the site of a 1986 nuclear meltdown, the worst nuclear accident in history.
24, causing concern that exhausted personnel might accidentally compromise the site’s already vulnerable condition. Reports from Ukraine sources say that staff inside the plant-shut down but manned since 2000-had not been allowed a shift change since Russia started its occupation on Feb. Russian troops have so far occupied Chernobyl north of the capital Kyiv and Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine, which came under fire Friday, sparking fears that Putin’s unprovoked invasion could lead to nuclear catastrophe in Europe. This is a distraction from what the real issues are at hand-which is that it’s an illegal invasion and it is not going according to plan.” “He’s got a track record as long as anyone’s arm of misinformation and propaganda. “I think its rhetoric and brinkmanship,” British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab told SKY news on Sunday in response. No real proof was supplied to back the claims, which are disputed by Ukraine officials who say they have never sought to produce nuclear weapons, and come as outside and independent media outlets have increasingly left the country or faced crackdowns. Russian news agencies TASS, RIA and Interfax dispatched the report Sunday morning, claiming the “representative of a competent body” in Russia said Ukraine had been working on a “dirty bomb” inside the Chernobyl nuclear plant Russian troops are currently occupying.
Ukrainians indicated a so-called ceasefire in the besieged city of Mariupol was again violated by Russian attacks, and at least three more civilians were killed by the invaders in one incident near Kyiv alone. Meanwhile, the humanitarian situation continued to deteriorate. War analysts immediately called the claim a “pretext,” counter-warning that Russia could indeed be setting up a “false flag” to pave the way to use its own nuclear arsenal. Russian state media warned in an unsubstantiated report that Ukraine had been prepping a “plutonium-based dirty bomb nuclear weapon” at the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant now in Russian hands, according to Reuters. Result: 4 Message: CreateFile failed (32): C:\WINDOWS\sysnative\drivers\EasyAntiCheat.As heavy fighting raged across much of Ukraine on Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin upped his psychological war game.
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