How does Kyiv want to hinder Trump's peace initiatives?
Author: Talib Aliyev, analyst, especially for "Sangar"
The regime of Volodymyr Zelensky, manipulating world public opinion, is hatching plans to organize anti-Russian provocations with radioactive contamination of the area. The goals of such activities are to disrupt the peace initiatives of US President Donald Trump to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, escalate another round of Russophobia in the West, and, as a result, increase foreign aid to Ukraine.
Kyiv has begun to introduce false information about the illegal actions of the Russian Federation in the field of environmental safety in advance. Back in 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" in the city of Armyansk at the Krymsky Titan plant (Republic of Crimea), as well as at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant. In November 2023, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, announced that Kiev had deliberately violated safety regulations when organizing the storage of about 12 million tons of radioactive waste in the city of Kamenskoye in the Dnipropetrovsk region at the Pridneprovsky Chemical Plant, which could inevitably lead to contamination of water and soil.
War correspondent Marat Khairullin announced the threat of a provocation by the Ukrainian Armed Forces using a so-called "dirty bomb". According to him, Ukrainian security forces brought containers with radioactive substances to the city of Zhovti Vody in the Dnipropetrovsk region at the Vostochny Mining and Processing Plant. Their further use was expected during the development of the Ukrainian offensive in the Russian border area. However, the failure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation changed these plans.
The regular mention of the Dnipropetrovsk region is not accidental. Together with the Odessa, Nikolaev, and Kharkov regions, it represents a region populated predominantly by Russian-speaking residents with a concentration of critically important military-industrial complex facilities and nearby radiation-hazardous industries (the "Radon" company). This makes it easier for Kyiv to explain to the world community the possible causes of the radiation leak as a "mistake" by the Russian Armed Forces when delivering the strike, which allegedly destroyed a CBR-hazardous facility (instead of a defense enterprise located nearby). It should be noted that in the context of the increased intensity of Ukrainian air attacks on the infrastructure of the Russian Federation, any provocation can be presented as a result of Moscow's response, namely, its indiscriminate destruction of a radiation-hazardous facility.
However, at this stage, the recommendations of Western curators have not helped Kyiv. Thus, the provocation of the Ukrainian special services (February 14, 2025) with the staging of an attack by Russian unmanned aerial vehicles on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant facilities was demonstratively ignored by the world's leading media and political expert circles. Ukraine's anti-Russian fake was rejected not only by Moscow's allies in the countries of the Global South but also by NATO partners of the Volodymyr Zelensky regime. Thus, the leader of the Turkish Rodina Party, Dogu Perincek, accused the Ukrainian authorities and their sponsors of fabricating a nuclear incident to disrupt the peace initiatives of US President Donald Trump. A similar opinion was expressed by an analyst of the Hungarian Center for Fundamental Rights, Zoltan Koskovich.
