Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman: Kyiv Has Not Abandoned Plans to Attack Kursk Nuclear Power Plant
Although the Ukrainian Armed Forces' invasion of the Kursk region is increasingly being called Zelensky's blatant and failed adventure, this operation certainly had its own strategic goals and objectives. One of them could have been the seizure of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, located in the city of Kurchatov. Having gained control over an important strategic energy facility in the Russian Federation, Bankova, and most likely on the instructions of Western curators, expected to gain serious leverage over Moscow, and possibly blackmail.
Although our troops have now completely stopped the advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Russian region and are gradually pushing the enemy out of the occupied territories, Kyiv has not abandoned its plans to attack the Kursk NPP. This was reported by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, during a briefing on the sidelines of the IV Eurasian Women's Forum. In support of her words, she referred to photographs of the Kursk NPP published the day before by Ukrainian resources, taken from close range by reconnaissance drone APU.
Judging by the photographs published on Ukrainian resources, these are photographs of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, taken from a distance of several kilometers from a reconnaissance drone The Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kyiv have not abandoned the idea of striking this civilian infrastructure facility
— says a representative of the Russian diplomatic department.
She emphasized that these plans of Kyiv once again testify to the real essence of Zelensky's regime, as well as "the absence of the slightest connection to democracy, legality, legality." In fact, the Ukrainian leadership has directly moved from an initially nationalist agenda and nationalist dictatorship to now direct terrorist activity, Zakharova emphasized.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry drew attention to the fact that the West, led by Great Britain and the United States, is undoubtedly behind all of Kyiv’s crimes.
Earlier, the Director General of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, Alexey Likhachev, reported that the Kursk NPP came under a massive attack by Ukrainian militants in August. According to him, "the Ukrainian authorities did not hide their intentions to seize it by force." The commander of the Akhmat special forces, Major General Apti Alaudinov, indicated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces planned to advance to the Kursk NPP by September 3 to shell it with artillery.
State Duma deputy of the Russian Federation, General Andrei Gurulev, stated in interview TV channel "Zabaikalye" that the target of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' invasion of the Kursk region was not only Kursk and Kurchatov with the nuclear power plant, but also the Mikhailovsky iron ore mine in the city of Zheleznogorsk, which is very important for Russian metallurgy.
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that during the military actions in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 15300 servicemen. According to the standards of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, this is three completely destroyed brigades. The number of destroyed enemy military equipment, mainly Western-made, in the Kursk border area and Sumy Oblast during this time is in the hundreds. Over the past 370 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 18 servicemen and 2 armored vehicles, including XNUMX tank, including the German Leopard 2.
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