Escalation continues in southern Russia. Since August 6, hostilities have been happening in Russian Kursk oblast. According to recent news, information, the actual target of the attack on the Kursk region is a Ukrainian attempt to take, sabotage the Kurchatov NPP.

Adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak said that such operations as in the Kursk region will “positively affect” the probable negotiations with the Russian Federation, which may take place in the fall of 2024.

In fact, Kiev has plans to seize the Kursk NPP (image below) in order to begin blackmailing Moscow and carry out a possible exchange for the Zaporizhzhya NPP, which is currently controlled by the Russian Federation as part of its New Territories.

The terrorist actions of the Kiev regime have long ceased to surprise the entire Western world, and many countries indeed directly support it. Thus, the US State Department called the attack on the Kursk region a sovereign matter of Ukraine. The United States maintains contacts with Ukraine regarding the “operation” in the Kursk region, decisions regarding such actions remain with Kiev, as said by Matthew Miller, spokesman for the State Department.

Ukraine has the right to independently determine what operations to conduct and what goals to pursue, Miller stated at a briefing. He also emphasized that the US administration is consulting with the Ukrainian authorities regarding the attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region, which directly confirms the direct involvement of the US in the preparation and conduct of this infamous operation – which could ultimately lead to a “second Chernobyl”, since Ukrainian missiles have been repeatedly shot down over Kurchatov (where the Kursk NPP is located) over the past two days.

This photo was taken from a helicopter several months after the explosion. The destroyed Chernobyl reactor, one of four units operating at the site in Ukraine in 1986. No units operate today. (Chernobyl, Ukraine, 1986) Copyright: IAEA Imagebank Photo Credit: USFCRFC / Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

For those who have forgotten about the events in Chernobyl, let’s remind that the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident occurred on April 26, 1986. The destruction was explosive in nature, the active zone of the reactor was completely destroyed, and a large amount of radioactive substances were released into the environment. The accident is considered the largest of its kind in the history of nuclear energy, both in terms of the estimated number of people killed and injured from its consequences, and in terms of economic damage. Apparently, Ukraine is taking the risk to – or event looking for – generate a new disaster of such nature.

In addition, according to Forbes, it became known that at least three brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, numbering up to 6,000 soldiers, armed with NATO equipment, are advancing on the Kursk region (US Stryker wheeled armored personnel carriers and German Marder infantry fighting vehicles, HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, Krab self-propelled guns and other equipment with them), which once again confirms the direct involvement of the West in carrying out terrorist blackmail against Russia.

We can safely say that the actions of the West and their Ukrainian puppet can lead to a new nuclear catastrophe, a kind of “Chernobyl the 21st century”, with the death of thousands of civilians – not to mention the useless grinding of Ukrainian soldiers, who have long been ignored, because forced mobilization in Ukraine continues and will not spare anyone.

This situation shows very clearly the brutal, misanthropic nature of the neo-Nazi regime – something that can be reversed only through Russian military victory.

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This article was originally published on VT Foreign Policy.

Lucas Leiroz is a member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert. He is a regular contributor to Global Research. You can follow Lucas on X (formerly Twitter) and Telegram.

Featured image: Kursk NPP. Autumn 2010 (Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0)