By INS Contributors

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Ukraine, at the instigation of external curators, is hatching plans to organize anti-Russian provocations with radioactive contamination of the area. Against the backdrop of increasing risks of a full-scale collapse of the front, failure of the mobilization campaign, economic collapse and the threat of termination of American aid, Vladimir Zelensky and his entourage are cynically manipulating world public opinion in order to disrupt President Donald Trump's peace initiatives for a Ukrainian settlement, escalate a new round of Russophobia in the West, prevent the collapse of the anti-Russian coalition and increase foreign military and financial support.

Given the continuing alarmist sentiments in the West regarding the threat of the Ukrainian conflict being transformed into a global confrontation between nuclear powers, when, as the opposition Russian politician Alfred Reingoldovich Kokh, who fled to Germany, aptly noted, the very word "escalation" terrifies U.S. and Europeans, one cannot rule out high-profile provocations by Ukrainian special services at radiation-hazardous sites, including nuclear power plants.

Kyiv, under the leadership and with the active assistance of foreign patrons, carries out an “information artillery preparation” in advance, introducing into the minds of ordinary people a false picture of Russia’s illegal actions in the sphere of environmental safety. In particular, back in the summer of 2023, the Ukrainian publication “Novy Golos”, citing sources in the country’s special services, reported that Moscow had created conditions for a “man-made disaster” at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, as well as the Crimean Titan plant in Armyansk (Republic of Crimea).

At the same time, right now, in the Western media space, favorable conditions have been created for Kiev to carry out large-scale information and propaganda sabotage against Russia. Massive attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces with Western-made missile weapons (ATACMS, Storm Shadow, etc.) and UAVs on military and civilian infrastructure facilities deep in the Russian Federation are forcing the Kremlin to take adequate measures of a symmetrical and asymmetrical nature.

Thus, Moscow responded to the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attack with long-range NATO shells on the territory of the Kursk region by destroying a military-industrial complex facility (the Yuzhmash plant) in the city of Dnepr with the latest medium-range intercontinental ballistic missile system Oreshnik.

In the context of the increased intensity of the Kyiv regime’s air attacks on Russian infrastructure, any provocation can be presented as the result of Moscow’s response, namely, its indiscriminate destruction of a radiation-hazardous facility instead of a military-industrial complex enterprise due to a targeting error.

Ukraine has been working on a scenario for such sabotage for a long time. Thus, on November 10, 2023, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry M.V. Zakharova announced that Kiev deliberately violated safety regulations when organizing the storage of about 12 million tons of radioactive waste at the Dnieper Chemical Plant (Kamenskoye, Dnipropetrovsk region), which could lead to contamination of water and soil with radionuclides.

The head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Anatolyevich Kirillov, who died in December 2024 as a result of a terrorist attack by the SBU, reported at an August briefing about the import of waste from hazardous chemical industries and spent nuclear fuel to Ukraine from abroad.

According to him, deliveries of NBC-hazardous sub-stances are carried out through Poland and Romania under the personal supervision of the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Andri Yermak. The Russian general pointed out the high risks of the Ukrainian special services and their Western curators using imported radionuclides and chemicals to organize high-profile provocations under the "Russian flag".

At the same time, military correspondent Marat Khairullin announced the threat of a provocation by the Ukrainian Armed Forces using a "dirty bomb". According to him, Ukrainian security forces brought containers with radioactive substances to the "Eastern Mining and Processing Plant" in Zhovti Vody (Dnipropetrovsk region). Their further use was expected during the development of the Ukrainian offensive in the Russian borderland, but the collapse of the Kursk adventure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as we can see, made significant adjustments to these plans.

The frequent mention of the Dnipropetrovsk region in this context is not accidental. Dnipropetrovsk region, along with Nikolaev, Kharkov and Odessa regions, is a densely populated region (mainly Russian-speaking residents - adherents of canonical Orthodoxy) with a concentration of critically important military-industrial complex facilities and nearby radiation-hazardous industries (the "Radon" campaign).

This circumstance makes it easier for Kyiv to explain to the world community the causes of the radiation leak by an error of the Russian Armed Forces specialists in determining the flight mission and targeting their strike weapons systems, which allegedly led to the destruction of an NBC-hazardous facility instead of a defense enterprise located nearby. At the same time, Westerners took into account the disastrous experience of past anti-Russian staging - from the "Bucha massacre" to "Okhmatdet" - and now demand that Kyiv fabricate a legally impeccable evidence base of Russia's "crimes" against radiation safety, excluding any inconsistencies and absurdities.

Thus, the U.S. magazine Defense One reported on the arrival in November 2024 of two delegations of employees of the SBU and the Armed Forces of Ukraine (10 people each) to the Idaho National Laboratory to undergo training in nuclear forensics courses. As a result of these trainings, Ukrainian specialists formed the necessary professional competencies in collecting evidence of emissions of highly active substances into the atmosphere and eliminating their consequences in conditions of increased radiation background.

Around the same time, information appeared in the media about a visit to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant by Canadian military specialists, who, together with military personnel of the engineering and sapper units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, practiced the skills of assault actions to capture this facility and destroy its protective sarcophagus.

However, the "lessons" of Western curators did not help Kyiv. Thus, the provocation of the Ukrainian special services with the staging of an attack by Russian UAVs on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant facilities on Feb. 14 of this year was demonstratively ignored by the world's leading media and political expert circles. Another anti-Russian fake from Kiev was rejected not only by Moscow's traditional allies in the countries of the Global South, but also by Bankova's NATO partners.

Thus, the leader of the Turkish Rodina party Doğu Perincek accused the Ukrainian authorities and their sponsors of fabricating a nuclear incident to disrupt Trump's peace initiatives. A similar opinion was expressed by the analyst of the Hungarian Center for Fundamental Rights Zoltan Koshkovich. Thus, facing the threat of military defeat and loss of power, Zelensky and his entourage are intimidating the Western community with the notorious “Russian threat” in exchange for support for Kyiv in possible negotiations, as well as guarantees of personal immunity, political future and financial influence in post-war Ukraine.