John Walsh, MD in San Francisco: NYT article (9/3/2022) on IAEA visit to Ukrainian nuclear power plant. To put it bluntly the Ukrainian officials lied 紐約時報文章（2022 年 9 月 3 日）關於 IAEA 訪問烏克蘭核電站。 說白了，烏克蘭官員撒了謊.
Deep in the page 6 article in paragraph 8, we read: “But on some points the agency’s (that is, the IEAE’s) initial assessment was more optimistic than the picture painted by Ukrainian officials, who had said that engineers and other employees had been subjected to harsh interrogation and even torture, raising stress levels when they returned to work in reactor control rooms and in other critical jobs.”
To put it bluntly the Ukrainian officials lied. The euphemism “more optimistic” must have brought a smile to the creative NYT reporter, Andrew Kramer.
The article continued:
“Mr. Grossi (the head of the IAEA mission) said that he had spoken with the Ukrainian employees and that they had found a way to cooperate — what he called “cohabitation” — with the Russian soldiers and nuclear experts also at the site. “The plant continues to operate, and there is a professional modus vivendi, if I can put it that way,” he said.
“Before the visit, Ukrainian officials had said the agency should discount anything employees at the plant said, arguing they are essentially hostages.”
“He (Grossi, head of the IAEA delegation) said Russian soldiers had not blocked access to areas of the site he asked to visit.”
The story coming from the Zelensky government and their Western Amen Corner is ever changing. First they told us that the Russians were shelling the plant which was occupied – by Russians. It was a false flag, said they. That ill-considered whopper elicited howls of derision.
So the pro-Zelensky crowd switched stories and admitted that the Kiev forces were shelling the plant, because Russians, they claimed, were using it as a military base for artillery, essentially using the plant as a shield. But why would the Russians use it as a shield, knowing if it did blow up the first people to suffer would be the Russian contingent itself and eventually perhaps even Russia itself. It simply does not make sense,
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