DISINFO: IAEA blind to Ukrainian guilt in attacks on nuclear plants as the OSCE was about MH17-flight

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DISINFO: IAEA blind to Ukrainian guilt in attacks on nuclear plants as the OSCE was about MH17-flight

SUMMARY

Russia warns of nuclear provocations being prepared by Ukraine on the Zaporozhye and Kursk power plants.

One would imagine that the IAEA inspectors would be ready to identify the culprit. But it won’t happen because they are blind to the evidence of Ukrainian guilt for the attacks against the Nuclear Power Plants (NPP) exactly as the OSCE mission was blind to Ukrainian culpability in the downing of MH17.

RESPONSE

Hahaganda with a photoshopped picture of an OSCE observation mission on the site of the MH17 crash in July 2014, the narrative being that international organizations like the IAEA ignore Ukrainian crimes because of their Russophobic bias.

The original picture was taken by Maxim Zmeyev for Reuters and it does not feature an IAEA team, but an observation mission from the OSCE. The mission was not granted full access to the crash site by the pro-Russian fighters who occupied the site. The MH17 investigation and trial exposed not only the responsibility of officials of the Russian Federation in the downing but also their efforts to support disinformation narratives that would incriminate Ukraine and its refusal to help the investigators honestly.

The IAEA can inspect some parts of Ukraine’s occupied Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) when the Russian occupying military forces allow it, but they are denied access the rest of the time. The EU is against the militarisation of the ZNPP and stated repeatedly that

Read also related cases such as: OSCE can’t guarantee security since it has become a rotten tool of the Collective West, or The UN ignores the threat of nuclear war from Ukraine.

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