MOSCOW, 23 Jan. The Ukrainian military is deploying Western weapons on the territories of nuclear power plants, Sergei Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), said. power plants. This applies to the most expensive and scarce for the Armed Forces missiles to the HIMARS MLRS systems and foreign air defense systems, as well as large-caliber artillery ammunition, «the press service of the Foreign Intelligence Service quoted him as saying.
According to intelligence data, only in the last week of December, several railway wagons of the «deadly cargo» were delivered from abroad through the Rafalovka railway station to the Rovno nuclear power plant.
According to Naryshkin, Kyiv expects that the Russian armed forces will not strike at nuclear power plants, fearing a nuclear catastrophe.
If a large-scale detonation of warehouses and the destruction of a nuclear power plant happen due to the fault of another «stray» Ukrainian air defense missile, then the blame for the tragedy can always be attributed to Moscow, he explained.
"I would like to hope that in It would never occur to anyone in Kyiv to deliberately undermine such warehouses in the hope of begging from the United States and its allies for even more weapons and ammunition,” added the director of the service.
According to him, this method is often used by international terrorists. At the same time, it is alleged that the hostages of the Kyiv regime are not individual civilians, but «tens and even hundreds of thousands of residents of their own country and neighboring states.» The nuclear power plant, which has been controlled by the Russian Armed Forces since March last year. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the Kyiv regime seeks to create the appearance of a threat of a nuclear catastrophe. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly stated the need to create a security zone around the ZNPP.
Three nuclear power plants remain under Kyiv's control — Rivne, Khmelnytsky and South-Ukrainian.