Chernobyl ‘disaster' being orchestrated, says Ukraine

Ukrainian intelligence officials have claimed Russia is preparing to stage a “false flag” attack on the Chernobyl nuclear power station. The ministry of defence said that Russia would try to pin the blame for the resulting catastrophe on Ukraine.

- HOLLY BANCROFT SAM HANCOCK

In a post on Facebook, the Intelligence Directorate said: “The Russian forces are planning to create a man-made disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and the occupiers will try to shift responsibility for it on Ukraine.” They added: “The nuclear power plant has now been completely disconnected from the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) monitoring systems... The occupants refused to grant access to the station to Ukrainian repairmen.”

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US envoy to the United Nations, said during a UN Security Council meeting called by Russia yesterday, that Moscow’s claims of US “biological activities” in the eastern European country were a potential “false flag” effort in action. Repeating Washington’s position that Ukraine does not have a biological weapons programme, she added it was Russia that could – and would – use such agents.