First, links to reports from National Public Radio, the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse (with Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata), and Tass on concerns about the Russian-held Zaporizhia nuclear power plant — Europe’s largest — and possible consequences of attacks; links to other reports from these organizations are accessible by clicking on their names below. Finally, via Consortium News, a firsthand retrospective on the horror of nuclear weaponry in warfare, related official propaganda, and current precariousness; author and filmmaker John Pilger filed it more than a week ago. — MCM
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Examining the security of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Leila Fadel of NPR talks with Mariana Budjeryn of Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center about concerns Russian forces are launching attacks from the plant knowing Ukrainians won’t risk returning fire. Click HERE to listen and, tomorrow, read.
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Fighting in Ukraine endangers big nuclear plant. From the Associated Press. Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, stoking international fears of a catastrophe on the continent. Click HERE for a detailed AP backgrounder.
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Ukraine accuses Russia of using power plant as ‘nuclear shield,‘ by Pavel Polityuk | Reuters * Ukraine says 13 killed in Russian rocket attack * Accuses Russia of shelling from near nuclear plant * Russia says it does not deliberately target civilians * Has accused Kyiv of shelling power plant from struck town | KYIV — Ukraine today accused Russia of exploiting its position in a nuclear power plant it had seized to target a nearby town in a rocket attack that killed at least 13 people and left many others seriously wounded. READ MORE . . .
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G7 says Russian control of Ukraine nuclear plant ‘endangers the region.’ From Agence France-Presse and Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata KYIV — The Group of Seven industrialised nations today condemned Russia’s occupation of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and called on Moscow to immediately hand back full control of the plant to Ukraine. Ukrainian staff operating the plant “must be able to carry out their duties without threats or pressure. It is Russia’s continued control of the plant that endangers the region,” the G7 foreign ministers said in a statement.
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G7 top diplomats call on Russia to hand over Zaporozhye NPP to Ukraine — statement. From Tass. BERLIN — The G7 Foreign Ministers called on Russia to immediately transfer the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and all nuclear facilities in Ukraine to Kiev’s control, according to the joint statement issued today by the German Foreign Ministry, which holds the G7 presidency. “We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union, reiterate our strongest condemnation of the ongoing unprovoked and unjustifiable war of aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The Russian Federation must immediately withdraw its troops from within Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders and respect Ukraine’s territory and sovereignty,” the document states. “In that context, we . . . READ MORE . . .
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Hiroshima at 77: Another Hiroshima is Coming — Unless We Stop It Now, by John Pilger | Consortium News When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite. I stared at the shadow for . . . READ MORE . . .
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