The head of the Federation Council’s commission on information policy and media relations, Alexey Pushkov, said that the United States is moving away from the latest accusations of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky against Russia. So in you telegraph channel He reacted to White House National Security Council strategic communications coordinator John Kirby’s remarks that Washington did not see any threat from Moscow to undermine the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, as they said in Kiev.
“This either means a desire to show the Americans and the world that the Biden administration in Ukraine generally has everything under control (they get nervous when it comes to the unreliability of nuclear power plants or the nuclear potential in the West); or the desire to put Zelensky in his place and inform him not to get into the nuclear issue. Or it is the general reluctance to heat up the issue so that it is not perceived as a provocation in Moscow,” wrote Pushkov.
He added that in the current situation, most likely all options are correct. Pushkov emphasized that this should not be seen as a serious change in the USA’s approach to Russia.
In Kiev, they repeatedly spoke about “Russia’s plans to attack the ZNPP”, without providing any evidence of their suspicions. In particular, at the end of June, Zelensky claimed that Moscow was allegedly preparing to undermine the station. At the same time, representatives of Russia pointed to similar plans of Kiev, including as part of the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
previously in the USA warned About Kiev’s attempt to organize a nuclear disaster due to failures on the battlefield.