{"id":42206,"date":"2024-04-16T10:19:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T10:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=42206"},"modified":"2024-04-16T10:19:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T10:19:16","slug":"kremlin-dismisses-macrons-call-for-olympic-truce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/04\/16\/kremlin-dismisses-macrons-call-for-olympic-truce\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin dismisses Macron\u2019s call for \u2018Olympic truce\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine\u2019s UN ambassador,&nbsp;<strong>Sergiy Kyslytsya<\/strong>, has accused Russia of a \u201ca well-planned false-flag operation\u201d endangering the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The power plant reportedly suffered at least three direct strikes on 7 April and another drone attack at the plant\u2019s nearby training centre on 9 April, prompting the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to warn of a \u201cmajor escalation\u201d in nuclear danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia has claimed that Ukrainian drones carried out the April attacks on the nuclear power plant, allegations Kyiv rejects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat happened at the ZNPP on 7th and 9th of April 2024 and thereafter was a well-planned false-flag operation by the Russian Federation,\u201d Kyslytsya said at a UN security council meeting last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was aimed at shifting the focus from the above root cause and the only way to remove all threats to nuclear safety and security, and that is de-occupation of the station.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Russian Federation attempts to hide its own guilt and move our debate to fabricated issues designed to blame\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0in the hope of removing the issue of de-occupation from the agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nuclear plant was captured in the early stages of the two-year-long war, and despite occasional efforts to reconnect to the Russian energy grid its reactors have gradually been put into shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IAEA said on 13 April that all six of the plant\u2019s reactors had been moved into a state of cold shutdown, but the IAEA head,&nbsp;<strong>Rafael Mariano Grossi<\/strong>, has said \u201creckless attacks\u201d significantly increase the risk of a \u201cmajor nuclear accident\u201d and called for them to stop immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s UN ambassador,&nbsp;Sergiy Kyslytsya, has accused Russia of a \u201ca well-planned false-flag operation\u201d endangering the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP). The power plant reportedly suffered at least three direct strikes on 7 April and another drone attack at the plant\u2019s nearby training centre on 9 April, prompting the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5144,11261,12487,11264,5304,11394,12758,7711,11399,9506,7445,5494,12773,10954,1152,5342,414,9833,6666,5925,11385,11134,10302,5807,3457,5217,5655,5752,12477,8429,5180,5555,5465,5689,5251,8280,7758],"class_list":["post-42206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-accident","tag-accused","tag-agenda","tag-allegations","tag-attack","tag-attacks","tag-captured","tag-cold","tag-debate","tag-drone","tag-drones","tag-energy","tag-increase","tag-international","tag-kremlin","tag-kyiv","tag-macron","tag-meeting","tag-nuclear","tag-nuclear-power","tag-olympic","tag-olympic-truce","tag-plant","tag-risk","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-security","tag-security-council","tag-shutdown","tag-truce","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-un","tag-un-security-council","tag-war","tag-zaporizhzhia","tag-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42208,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42206\/revisions\/42208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}