THE RUSSIAN WAR COMES HOME TO RUSSIA
June 24, 2023 -Durt Fibo
War has always ploughed up environmental destruction wherever it rolled, but the explosion of an obsolete 20th century war between two 21st century countries ignited by the Russian attack on Ukraine in February of 2022 has brought the most futuristic perils to the surface. People die, fight, and gape in horror, not in some distant non-state, but in the fraying lands of Europe. Some consciousness of this -some dread remorse- was acknowledged yesterday when TASS announced the alleged suicide of Grigory Klinishov, a co-creator of the first Soviet two-stage thermonuclear bomb. The 92-year-old Klinishov was found twirling from a noose.
When the Nova Kakhovka dam was blown up to start this month, it flooded away the Kherson ecosystem and took earth, men and landmines down towards the Black Sea. Naturally, Russia flipped the blame onto Ukraine, despite the pre- and post-explosion evidence that it was detonated from within; this in accord with the area and the Kakhovka hydro-electric edifice being in Russian hands since last year, the Soviet-era plans being in Russian archives, and the dam having been constructed to withstand nuclear bombing from the exterior. The consensus is that the effects of the catastrophic ecological devastation will continue to erupt for years.
Now, Mykhailo Podolyak, the adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine has been warning that Russia is losing captured ground in the current counteroffensive, and that they will most likely be forced away from Zaporizhzhia’s company town Enerhodar. “Therefore,” Podolyak says, “Russia is currently considering a large-scale terrorist attack at the ZNPP to stop the Ukrainian counteroffensive and create a depopulated sanitary gray zone, fixed for the following years, as part of the territorial status quo without a ceasefire. This strategy also includes attempts to attack the dam in Kryvi Rih with Kinzhals [ballistic missiles]. Additional mining of the nuclear power plant, including the cooling ponds, is underway.” I remind you that the plant had been shelled by delinquent Russian soldiers in the beginning of May, 2022, and fires there were not extinguished until May 4th.. https://derkoolschrank.com/
Back in October of ‘22, Russia, via its state media TASS, prophesied repeatedly that Ukraine was imminently going to simulate a “terrorist attack” which would release radiation within its own territory, merely in order to accuse Russia of more war crimes. The Russian General Staff amplified those warnings, but at that time claimed the “dirty bomb” would come from a collection of used fuel from the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant, which the Russians only fled on the last day of March ‘22. https://derkoolschrank.com/another-dumb-dirty-scare-from-russia/ Similarly, in October, Russia accused Ukraine of having blown up the Kerch bridge. https://derkoolschrank.com/how-does-the-kerch-bridge-blow/
Ukraine has four atomic power plants with a combined total of 15 nuclear reactors. at four plants -two in the north-west (Rivne, Khmelnitsky), and two in the south-east (Pivdennoukrainsk, Zaporizhzhia)- which makes the entire 233,000 square mile country a potential ecological casualty. Previously a Russian goal, the Pivdennoukrainsk was defended by Ukraine and remained in its control, although the plant was hit by Russian artillery shells on 19 September 2022. The legendary Chernobyl plant experienced disruption and radiation dispersement from the Russians’ initial foray into Ukraine. Troops who had marched through the exclusion zone, entered and took over the defunct plant, and dug trenches for fighting, were celeritously trucked back home to Russia dead or dying -humorously referred to as “red meat” by their superiors. https://derkoolschrank.com/how-putin-could-tear-down-the-temple/ Zaporizhzhia remained in the news and in danger since being overrun by the Russian war machine, and sufficient reports began seeping out of Russia using the facilities there to warehouse appalling amounts of munitions, including tanks and artillery that the International Atomic Energy Agency was again called back to Ukraine to bargain for safety and order. https://derkoolschrank.com/ukraine-nuclear-plant-in-deliberate-danger/
Now the atomic poison has burst into two distinct boils, one inside Ukraine and one outside it. The in-country threat is the splattering retreat of the Russian army and its concomitant recklessness and venom. All the players are aware of the weaponry in the Zaporizhzhia plant; Putin’s characteristic reaction has been to invoke the imperial violation of the end of May’s drone attacks (which broke some widows in Moscow) to issue imprecations about a nuclear disaster due to come from Zaporizhzhia (this was merely recycling his earlier warnings of Ukraine releasing a ‘dirty bomb’ then blaming Russia); Ukraine in turn has been pouring out intelligence this week noting the high probability of Russia turning the nucler plant into one big nuclear bomb. I’d reported on this situation, and the confusion set awhirl by the concerned parties on June 18th, explaining how in 2022, IAEA director general Rafael Grossi told the World Economic Forum at Davos that there were 30 tons of plutonium and 40 tons of enriched uranium stockpiled in the Zaporizhzhia plant, implying that the Ukrainians had placed it there. Putin constructed his tale of a Ukrainian false flag explosion based on that warning, which, of course, had been in the news. But, after that IAEA statement, by May, 2022, the stockpile idea was denounced as untrue by Oleh Korikov, then acting director of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (Держатомрегулювання Інспекція України -ДЕРЖІУ-). In fact, Korikov publicly denounced Grossi’s lack of real information (not remarkable, since Zaporizhzhia had not been much in the IAEA’s thoughts before its capture), saying: “It is very sad that the bold lies of Russian propaganda are broadcast at a high level by the IAEA’s top official.” https://derkoolschrank.com/clarifying-american-media-on…/
The external nuclear menace stems from Putin’s May 25 television announcement that he would be transferring ready-to-use tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, followed by his June 9 declaration that the non-strategic nuclear weapons, promised in a bilateral agreement with an essentially captive President Lukashenko, would arrive at the beginning of July once the necessary storage facilities were ready, followed by Lukashenko bragging on June 13 that Russian tactical nuclear weapons will arrive within “days.” Putin completed the circle of ‘information’ at that same time (at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum) by regaling the attendees with the news that: “The first nuclear charges were delivered to Belarus. But only the first ones, the first part. By the end of the summer, by the end of the year, we will complete this work.” Putin laid out the party line on the redeployment: “It is precisely an element of deterrence so that all those who are thinking about inflicting a strategic defeat on us are not oblivious to this circumstance.” However, on June 20th, the head of Ukraine’s Military Intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, insisted that Russia hadn’t yet delivered a “single nuclear warhead” to Belarus.
Hedging his bets, Budanov suggested that preparations for a “possible transfer” are ongoing, and storage facilities in Belarus might be being equipped. But no observers in or out of Belarus have noted any actual moves indicting the presence of the weapons or any construction for holding them. The Belarusian tracking and monitoring group Belarusian Hajun Project (Беларускі Гаюн) maintains that it has not observed any transfer of nuclear weapons into the country, which, they point out, is alleged to have occurred in impossibly small timeframe. Basic, adequate facilities for storing such weapons “cannot be built in a couple of months,” according to Pavel Podvig, a senior researcher in weapons of mass destruction at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. “It’s quite a complex engineering structure with systems to control access to it, defense, not to mention the creation of climate conditions.” No sign of these or any similar constructions have been reported, or spotted by satellite flyovers. Finally: “Idi Amin” Lukashenko has a few years of history of thwarting Putin while loudly bragging about his coordination with Russian military requirements (or demands), and there has been no mention of such construction, placement, or arrival of anything related to such munitions in his own presidential website. Luky’s last self-congratulating developmental unveiling was simply Decree Number 102, of April 12, “On the development of the Hi-Tech Park.”
Then, deft and maladroit as ever, yesterday morning Putin was forced to activate Russia’s emergency counter-uprising masterplan (“Citadel”) in response to what his own FSB have called a rebellion by Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin (see yesterday’s article “RUSSIA ENACTS EMERGENCY PLAN” https://derkoolschrank.com/russia-enacts-emergency-plan/
Taking his unreliably-calcuated “25,000” zeks from Ukraine and moving 60 miles east to Rostov-on-Don (which today’s videos show as apparently captured by the Wagnerites), where squats the command center for the Russian joint group of forces in Ukraine, current updates have Piroshki-head swinging north to (or already through) Voronezh, which is roughly half-way to Moscow. Along that Rostov-to-Voronezh road, the Wagner zeks were attacked by Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov’s forces, but Prigozhin also picked up some defecting Russian troops and the (verbal) alliance of The Russian Volunteer Corps (Русский добровольческий корпус; РДК), the Russian saboteurs who are comprised of Russian neo-nazis. Thus pushed once more, Putin took to the airwaves and finally proclaimed that: “Prigozhin betrayed Moscow for personal ambition”. Interestingly, he added: “The events of 1917 will not be repeated.” whereas we have stated since February 24, 2022 that, in regards to Russia, Putin has reignited August, 1914.