[WonderMomma]

"The IAEA found anti-personnel mines at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which are located in the buffer zone between the inner and outer perimeter of the plant.

The occupiers told the experts that the presence of the mines was a military decision, and they were in an area controlled by the military. The IAEA stated that this does not meet safety standards."

#znpp


Source: https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pres...ion-in-ukraine

Update 175 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine
24 Jul 2023
Vienna, Austria



International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts have observed directional anti-personnel mines on the periphery of the site of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today.

During a walkdown on 23 July, the IAEA team saw some mines located in a buffer zone between the site’s internal and external perimeter barriers. The experts reported that they were situated in a restricted area that operating plant personnel cannot access and were facing away from the site. The team did not observe any within the inner site perimeter during the walkdown.

“As I have reported earlier, the IAEA has been aware of the previous placement of mines outside the site perimeter and also at particular places inside. Our team has raised this specific finding with the plant and they have been told that it is a military decision, and in an area controlled by military,” Director General Grossi said.

“But having such explosives on the site is inconsistent with the IAEA safety standards and nuclear security guidance and creates additional psychological pressure on plant staff – even if the IAEA’s initial assessment based on its own observations and the plant’s clarifications is that any detonation of these mines should not affect the site’s nuclear safety and security systems. The team will continue its interactions with the plant,” he added.

In recent days and weeks, the IAEA experts present at the ZNPP have carried out inspections and regular walkdowns across the site, without seeing any heavy military equipment. The IAEA is also continuing to request access to the roofs of the ZNPP’s reactors and their turbine halls, including units 3 and 4 which are of particular interest.

Earlier today, the experts visited the reactor unit 6 main control room, emergency control room, the rooms where electrical cabinets of the safety systems are located, and parts of the turbine hall where they saw the main feedwater pumps, main turbine oil tank and main condenser. While the team was not able to visit all areas in the turbine hall, they did not observe any mines or explosives.

In the evening of 22 July, the IAEA team heard several detonations some distance away from the plant.

Also over the weekend, the ZNPP temporarily lost its connection to the main 750 kilovolt (kV) power line and relied on a single 330 kV back-up line for off-site electricity for some eight hours on Saturday, without any consequences to nuclear safety and security on site. The cause was a technical failure in one of the switchyards some distance away from the site, the ZNPP informed the IAEA. The event once again highlighted the site’s fragile external power situation during the military conflict. Nuclear power plants need power for reactor cooling and other essential nuclear safety and security functions.

The plant has begun its planned transition of reactor unit 4 from cold to hot shutdown, informing the IAEA experts that the relevant tests were carried out and that the unit is heating up. Unit 4 is expected to reach hot shutdown status on 25 July. Once that is done, reactor unit 5 – now in hot shutdown – will be placed in cold shutdown in order to carry out preventive maintenance activities that are only possible in cold shutdown. The other units remain in cold shutdown. As reported previously the Ukraine national regulator – SNRIU – has issued regulatory orders to limit the operation of all six units to a cold shutdown state.

The IAEA experts are continuing to closely monitor the situation regarding the availability of water for cooling the ZNPP’s six reactors and other essential nuclear safety and security functions, following the destruction of the downstream Kakhovka dam in early June and the subsequent depletion of the huge reservoir near the plant. The IAEA team reported that the available water supply remains relatively stable, with the water level decreasing by around 1 centimetre per day due to usage and evaporation. The site continues to have sufficient water for some months.

A new team of IAEA experts arrived at the Rivne NPP today and new teams at the Khmelnitsky and South Ukraine sites will also arrive this week to replace the current IAEA teams there.

The IAEA Support and Assistance Mission on the Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources in Ukraine – ISAMRAD – arrived in Kyiv today as part of a mission to assess the radiation safety and nuclear security situation regarding radioactive sources in the country and also to identify equipment needs and other requirements. The team will also visit institutes and facilities in Kharkiv during the week to assess the nuclear safety and security situation there.

[kellyhound]

Today's ukr losses.

Today's russ losses.

[kellyhound]

latest developments.

[WonderMomma]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

latest developments.

From a Russian sources:

[WonderMomma]

"Kharkiv designers launched their own Sirko UAV into serial production.

✅The drone is capable of finding targets at a distance of 65 km and can transmit video from a distance of 25 km, and costs only a few thousand dollars.

✅The representative of the manufacturing company says that it was possible to establish relations with manufacturers of components - not only Chinese, but also with Israeli, Canadian, Taiwanese and other countries.

About a week ago, the commission from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine decided to grant access to the use of drones in the military.

✅While there is no question of state procurement, the complexes are purchased for the military with volunteer funds.

✅During June, almost a hundred such complexes were shipped for the military. At the same time, the capacity allows to make 800-1000 per month."



"The Rheinmetall company announced that it will deliver two more Skynex air defense systems to Ukraine by the end of the year

The Skynex systems will be installed on the new Rheinmetall HX 8x8 military trucks.

ℹ️ In April, it became known that two such systems are already on combat duty in Ukraine, which is currently the only Skynex operator in the world."

[WonderMomma]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

From a Russian sources:
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OK, so it seems this information from Russian sources was exaggerated a bit. Surprise surprise.

"Katsap media reports about the loss of Klishchiivka - this is not true

As of today, the enemy continues to send reserves to the northern part of the village and even attack.

Today, the statement of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine sounded: " During the conduct of offensive-assault actions by the defense forces , the enemy was forced to withdraw from their positions in the Andriivka area ." Due to the hypocrisy of some telegram channels, information about the liberation of the village spread, which is a distortion of information. As soon as the village is liberated, it will be announced on the same page of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine."

[WonderMomma]

Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ed-2023-07-25/

UN says Ukrainian POWs in Donetsk not killed by rocket, as Russia claimed
July 25, 20239:53 AM EDT | Updated 11 hours ago



GENEVA, July 25 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief on Tuesday called for accountability for the deaths of at least 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war last year in an explosion in a Donetsk region detention facility, rejecting Moscow's claim that they were killed by a rocket.

The prisoners being held in a Russian-controlled detention facility in Olenivka, in the eastern Donetsk region, were killed by an apparent explosion July 28-29 2022. Unverified Russia media video footage showed the burned out remains of the prison and charred bodies.

Russia's defence ministry said at the time that a missile strike by a U.S.-made HIMARS rocket was responsible. Kyiv, which frequently raises the incident, has maintained that Russia conducted the explosion at the Olenivka prison in order to hide mistreatment of the Ukrainian captives held inside.

Russia's defence ministry did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. Moscow has previously denied maltreating POWs.

"The prisoners of war who were injured or died at Olenivka, and their family members, deserve the truth to be known, and for those responsible for breaches of international law to be held accountable," said High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk in a statement sent to journalists.

The UN rights body, which said it has conducted extensive interviews with survivors and analysed additional information, added that the incident "was not caused by a HIMARS rocket".

It said that it has not identified the source of the explosion but would continue to follow up on the incident. Russia has not granted requests to access parts of Ukraine under temporary Russian control nor given the satisfactory safety assurances for a site visit, the statement added.

The U.N. rights office has previously said both Russia and Ukraine have abused prisoners of war during the conflict, although the former has done so on a bigger scale.

Reporting by Emma Farge; additional reporting by Max Hunder in Kyiv; editing by Jonathan Oatis




RT article blaming it on Ukraine. I'm not posting that garbage so if you want to see it click link: https://www.rt.com/russia/559831-ukr...issile-strike/

Related posts of this incident:
https://www.documentingreality.com/f...ml#post7574032 (starts here and there are several posts regarding it after)

https://www.documentingreality.com/f...ml#post7574371

https://www.documentingreality.com/f...ml#post7574384

https://www.documentingreality.com/f...ml#post7575152

https://www.documentingreality.com/f...ml#post7576368 (post from Faust about Russia inviting the UN and Red Cross to come investigate)

https://www.documentingreality.com/f...ml#post7788747 (Youtube video of someone who survived Azovstal and Olenivka, English Subs)

https://www.documentingreality.com/f...9/#post7738284 (Some of those surviving prisoners returning home)

[WonderMomma]

▩Archival footage compiled about the battle of the Hostomel/Antonov airport. This battle is another huge reason why Russia failed to take Kyiv. It's a lot of talking so I'm posting it in here.

"Not a single Russian plane was able to land, - a soldier-reconnaissance revealed unknown details of the battles for the Antonov airport

If the Russians had been able to implement their plan to seize the Gostomel airfield and land a large number of light armored troops there in the first days of the great invasion, Kyiv would have been occupied with a high probability.

A participant in the battles for the Antonov Airport in Gostomel, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, for the first time revealed the unknown details of the battle that was key to the freedom of the capital.

How 30 soldiers of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine gave battle to 300 Moscow paratroopers - see in the video."

#hostomel


▩"The Polish Border Guard has released a video of migrants throwing rocks at Polish police officers guarding the newly-constructed Polish border wall.

They write that the Belarusian Border Guard used to stop illegal migration, but is now facilitating it."

[WonderMomma]

"The United States accused a Russian Su-35S fighter jet of a dangerous close encounter with an MQ-9 Reaper drone in the skies over Syria and published a video of the incident.

The fighter jet flew too close to the Reaper and launched missiles at its target, being several meters higher than the drone. The US Air Force says that the launch of one of the missiles severely damaged the MQ-9's propeller.

A similar incident happened in early July. Back then, in northeastern Syria, Russian planes decided to intercept the MQ-9 and fired parachute missiles in front of the drone, and one of the pilots turned on the afterburner next to the UAV, which caused difficulties with its control."

Related posts:
https://www.documentingreality.com/f...ml#post7866288
https://www.documentingreality.com/f...ml#post7866722
https://www.documentingreality.com/f...ml#post7867078
https://www.documentingreality.com/f...ml#post7867974
https://www.documentingreality.com/f...ml#post7868170
https://www.documentingreality.com/f...ml#post7868514

[WonderMomma]

◍"The Defense Minister Shoigu, representing Putin, visited North Korea with a request for military support in the invasion of Ukraine. There are concerns that North Korea might agree to provide assistance."

◍""The wildest thing was a mined baby carriage. You lift up a pillow and everything explodes" -
Head of demining teams of the State Emergency Service of Kherson region, Oleksandr Dvoretskyi, tells how Russians mined everything: residential houses, dog houses, dead bodies, electric poles, cemeteries.

According to Washington Post, Ukraine is now the most mined country in the world. Some experts estimate that clearance would take approximately 500 demining teams in current operation 757 years to complete: "

757 years sounds really high. I know nothing of the process, however.