Zelensky: ‘Moscow plans to launch attacks on nuclear facilities’. Putin: ‘Nuclear response in case of air attack’ – Europe

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking at the UN General Assembly, warns of the “danger of a nuclear accident” at Zaporizhzhia, the plant still occupied by Russian forces. “The first point of my peace formula is nuclear safety, the world understands what is at stake”, he said, raising the specter of a new Chernobyl. Russia is planning attacks on Ukraine’s nuclear facilities, according to intelligence sources, Zelensky said.

Ukraine will “never accept” an imposed peace agreement: Zelensky said this in his speech at the UNrepeating that he wants “real, just peace for my people.” “We need peace, and we need a real peace. Too much in the Security Council depends on the power of veto, when the aggressor has the right to veto to be blocked, but in the peace formula we have no veto power”, he added.

In his speech Zelensky denied that Vladimir Putin is looking for ways to “break the spirit of Ukraine”including targeting his country’s energy infrastructure with deliberate Russian attacks on Ukrainian power plants and the entire energy grid. “Russia has destroyed all of our thermal power plants and much of our hydropower capacity. This is how Putin is preparing for the winter, hoping to torture millions of Ukrainians… Putin wants to leave them in the dark and make Ukraine suffer and give up. up.” “The alternative to peace is more suffering and more accidents. I want real peace, just for my people. I ask for your support, from all countries: do not divide the world, the United Nations, and this will bring us peace “. With these words, President Zelensky ended his speech to the 79th The UN General Assembly, with a warm welcome.

At the same time in Russia iPresident Vladimir Putin chaired today a meeting of the National Security Council dedicated to proposals for updating the doctrine of nuclear deterrence. This was reported by Russian agencies. “Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons not only to respond to aggression against itself, but also against Belarus,” Putin said.

Not only that. Moscow will “pay attention” use of nuclear weapons for defensive purposes in case he has “reliable information on a mass launch of air and space weapons crossing the border of the Russian state.” President Vladimir Putin said this when presenting a review of the nuclear doctrine. The doctrine already envisaged that it would be possible to use nuclear weapons to protect Russia from aggression with weapons of mass destruction or conventional weapons if this threatened the existence of the state.

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Russia has started a program to manufacture drones in China

Russia has launched a military program in China to develop and produce long-range attack drones for use in the war against Ukraine. Reuters writes on its website citing two sources from a European intelligence agency and some documents. IEMZ Kupol, a subsidiary of the Russian state military company Almaz-Antey, has developed and tested a new drone called Garpiya-3 (G3) in China with the help of local experts, according to one of the documents. In a subsequent update, Kupol told the Russian ministry that they were able to produce large drones at a factory in China for use in Ukraine.
“We will win, we have no doubts.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said this in an interview with Tass after arriving in New York to participate in the UN General Assembly. -really united against the war that the West has unleashed against us by the hands of the Ukrainians”, and “the West must understand” that this war “will be lost”, said the head of diplomacy of the Russia.

‘Russian Propaganda Releases London Nuclear Attack Video Again’

New photos of Russian propaganda threats in London. TV channel, Tsargrad, owned by the Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, a close friend of Vladimir Putin, launched again on his Telegram a symbol of a nuclear attack on the capital of the United Kingdom: a 4-minute video showing – reports the British tabloid Express – the dynamics, emphasizing that it would cause the death of 850 thousand people and 2 million injuries. Nuclear threats from the Kremlin which – Express reminds us – come as the United Kingdom is considering the possibility of allowing the Ukrainian army to use Storm Shadow missiles to hit targets inside the Russia. First published three months ago, “the video was recycled – it concludes – in an attempt to increase the psychological pressure on the United Kingdom”. Malofeev, a 50-year-old close friend of Putin, is an investment banker and media mogul, also known as the “Orthodox Oligarch” because of his ties to the Russian church.

Media, ‘Trump may not meet Zelensky’

Donald Trump may not meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the US these days. Politico reports this, citing some sources from the former president’s campaign, according to which a face-to-face meeting has not been scheduled at this time, unlike what had happened before. Trump was reportedly angered by Zelensky’s visit on Sunday to a weapons factory in Scranton, Biden’s hometown in Pennsylvania, in an election-style stop.