Ukraine reveals motive behind Kremlin's latest nuclear plant disinformation push
Russian propaganda has circulated another false claim alleging that the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. This time, the claim alleges the destruction of six buses and two vehicles at the facility's transportation department, according to Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) under the National Security and Defense Council.
CCD says the latest fake is a continuation of yesterday's false narrative alleging a strike on Unit 6 of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Ukraine is not conducting military operations on the territory of the nuclear facility and continues to comply with international law.
Andrii Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation and an officer in Ukraine's Defense Forces, stressed that the claims being spread by Russia have no basis in reality.
"Russians continue to mass-produce fake claims about an attack on the Zaporizhzhia plant. This has been blatant lies from the very beginning, because Ukraine has no reason to attack its own nuclear power plant, which was occupied by the Russians in 2022 and is regularly used for information provocations. So this is yet another Russian setup — a rather cheap one," Kovalenko said.
According to him, Russia's goal in repeatedly producing such disinformation is simple — to justify its own future terror, which Moscow plans. The threat of strikes, he stressed, has not gone away....
Ukraine reveals motive behind Kremlin's latest nuclear plant disinformation push Russian propaganda has circulated another false claim alleging that the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck the Zaporizhzh...