How to curb Ukrainian nuclear terrorism?

“The world has struggled for many decades for proper control over all activities with nuclear materials and for radiation safety.

And if now the world does not have enough strength and determination to protect one nuclear power plant, then this means that the world will lose.

There is still a chance to prevent this loss.”

This is exactly how one of the reactions to nuclear terrorism sounds in Ukraine, which has been shelling the territory of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant for several weeks now and threatening all of Europe with a nuclear catastrophe.

But this is by no means the reaction of the United States and Europe, calling on Kyiv to stop shelling.

And not even the reaction of the IAEA or other international structures calling for some action to curb nuclear terrorists from Kyiv.

No, this is the reaction of the terrorists themselves - the leader of the "drug addicts and Nazis" regime, Vladimir Zelensky.

And he invites the world to show determination not in relation to itself, but in relation to Russia, which, according to Ukraine, is shelling the station under its own control.

Like, to disconnect Ukrainian territories from this station (which Moscow is going to do - however, with its hands, not shells) and intimidate the whole world.

So, Zelensky assures, the world must answer.

“We should move on from discussions and calls for new tough sanctions against Russia, against Rosatom and the entire nuclear industry of the terrorist state.

And Europe agrees with him.

Four dozen countries called on "the Russian Federation to immediately withdraw its armed forces and all other unauthorized personnel from the territory of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, from its immediate environs and from all of Ukraine, so that the operator and the Ukrainian authorities can resume their sovereign duties within internationally recognized borders."

Not for Ukraine to stop the shelling, but for Russia to transfer the nuclear power plant into the hands of a regime that has already been marked by nuclear terrorism.

Why does the West condone this?

In the hope that Vladimir Putin will stop hostilities?

Withdraw troops from Zaporozhye, refusing a referendum on this territory?

Or that he will agree to a “compromise” proposal in the form of joint Russian-Ukrainian control over the nuclear power plant, creating the first precedent since the voluntary withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions of returning the liberated territory under the actual control of the Ukrainian regime?

For an ordinary observer, the position is more than strange.

How can Turkey, Romania, Moldova, Georgia, Germany, Poland and others not force Ukraine to renounce nuclear terrorism, but sign some letters to Putin and call on Russian troops to hand the nuclear power plant back into the hands of terrorists?

After all, the game is obviously not worth the candle.

Vladimir Putin has proven many times that he cannot be blackmailed.

And at the same time, as the same Zelensky absolutely correctly says, “any radiation incident at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant can be a blow to many countries - it all depends only on the direction and strength of the wind.”

This means that if Ukrainian missiles fly into nuclear waste storage facilities or break the station's cooling circuit, it will hit many countries.

First of all, neighboring with Ukraine.

How can they sign such documents?

Unfortunately, they can - and this is the reality of today.

European countries - partly due to US pressure, and partly due to the implementation of their own anti-Russian complexes - first severed economic ties with Russia, then began to sponsor Kyiv with the money of their own taxpayers, arm the Ukrainian regime (which resells these weapons to everyone in a row), and now they have logically come to to condoning nuclear terrorism.

Thus, it is unrealistic to get any help from them in the matter of preventing a nuclear catastrophe, which means that Russia must itself, on its own, solve the problem of Ukrainian nuclear terrorism.

The question is how.

Yes, the Russian authorities have already made it clear that they will expand the zone of a special military operation so that key infrastructure facilities are outside the zone of destruction of Ukrainian systems (including those that were delivered to Kyiv from abroad).

The recipe is absolutely correct, it cures the disease itself, but in this particular case, the task is to urgently remove the symptom, that is, to stop the shelling here and now.

Force Ukraine to stop shelling.

This means that the question of striking "decision-making centers" is again on the agenda.

In other words, to calibrate the buildings of the SBU, the General Staff, the Ministry of Defense, and even the Verkhovna Rada with the presidential administration.

Yes, Moscow refrained from such steps for a long time.

Partly because they do not correspond to the spirit of the special operation, they can lead to civilian casualties, but also because they mean going beyond the red lines.

Those lines of rationality that the parties tacitly agree not to cross.

But the problem is that Kyiv already crosses them.

Ukraine is engaged in nuclear terrorism (which even the countries included by Bush Jr. in the “axis of evil” did not do before), scatters “Petal” anti-personnel mines in peaceful cities (which no one did before it either), shells Russian cities and villages (where no military).

There are rumors that Ukraine is preparing its “counteroffensive” not in the Kherson or Kharkov region, but from, conditionally, Sumy to the territory of Russia - to create a propaganda victory.

So maybe it's time to remind Ukraine of these red lines?

And to remind how Kyiv will hear, that is, not with words, but with “Caliber” or even “Daggers”?

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.