The Russians have decided to continue to play stupid games in the hope of winning a non-stupid prize at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. This is the imagery that the British Ministry of Defence published this morning:
Here is former NAVDEVGRU Squadron Leader Chuck Pfarrer’s most recent analysis of the situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant:
ZAPORIZHZHIA NUCLEAR PLANT //UPDATE// RU occupiers have disconnected the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant from the electrical grid. The plant now depends solely on backup emergency generators to provide electrical power to critical cooling systems. pic.twitter.com/fQ7cI6Ssgv
— Chuck Pfarrer (@ChuckPfarrer) August 25, 2022
Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. As I’m sure you anticipated, he addressed the situation at the nuclear power plant. Video below, English transcript after the jump (emphasis mine):
Ukrainians!
All Europeans!
Today, for the first time in history, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant stopped. The emergency protection of the power units worked – after the last working line of the plant’s power return to the Ukrainian power system was damaged by Russian shelling.
Diesel generators were immediately activated to provide energy to the plant itself, to support it after the shutdown. The world must understand what a threat this is: if the diesel generators hadn’t turned on, if the automation and our staff of the plant had not reacted after the blackout, then we would already be forced to overcome the consequences of the radiation accident. Russia has put Ukraine and all Europeans in a situation one step away from a radiation disaster.
The south of Ukraine – the occupied areas – is already in a state of humanitarian disaster. In addition to all the evil that the occupiers brought there, electricity, water and sewage were cut off. Russia has brought degradation to our land, which has never been seen here. All this was simply impossible before the occupation. But this is the essence and pride of the modern Russian state: it is capable of only one thing – making the worst possible.
I want to assure all Ukrainians: we are doing everything to prevent an emergency scenario. But it depends not only on our state. The key thing is that such international pressure is needed that will force the occupiers to immediately withdraw from the territory of the Zaporizhzhia NPP. The IAEA and other international organizations must act much faster than they’re acting now. Because every minute the Russian troops stay at the nuclear power plant is a risk of a global radiation disaster.
Of course, we are doing everything so that the world knows every detail of the situation at the Zaporizhzhia NPP. And, in particular, today I talked about it in detail with President of the United States of America Biden. I am grateful to him for understanding and fully supporting the need to return the plant under the Ukrainian control and provide for the IAEA access immediately. This can be done in a matter of days, before the occupiers bring the situation to an irreversible point. And it’s easier to do it now than later, if the wind starts blowing radiation pollution across Europe.
In general, our conversation with President Biden today was very constructive, positive, quite long and productive. We managed to discuss all issues that are of vital importance for the protection of Ukraine and freedom. I thanked Mr. President and all the people of the United States for the defense assistance and for the tangible leadership in the macro-financial support of our state.
Just yesterday, President Biden approved a $6 billion package: three for defense assistance, three for financial assistance through the World Bank system.
I expressed particular gratitude for the inclusion of air defense in this package. We can really achieve a situation when the Russian missile terror will be overcome after Ukraine receives NASAMS air defense systems.
Today, I also had a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy who was on a visit to Ukraine. I thanked the Italian people, the President of Italy and personally Prime Minister of Italy Draghi for his principles in the defense of a united Europe. Mr. Draghi became one of those European leaders whose determination and personal morality made it possible at a critical moment to strengthen Europe and protect normal life on our continent.
We discussed today the expansion of cooperation between our states and Italy’s experience in strengthening security, in particular energy security.
By the way, due to Russian gas blackmail, gas prices in Europe today have already exceeded the level of $3,300 per thousand cubic meters. And this Russian anti-European policy is truly destructive, but in a strategic perspective – for Russia itself. There will no longer be such a player on the European energy market as Russia.
Of course, now the situation is very dangerous, very acute. But most European countries have approached energy issues very responsibly and are doing everything to adapt, to protect themselves. If someone in Russia thinks that they will bring Europe as a whole or Ukraine or other individual countries to their knees this winter, then this is a miscalculation. I believe that Europe is strong enough to correct the mistakes of the past, to become independent from the Russian energy system, from Russian energy carriers and not to give in to the blackmail of energy terrorists from Gazprom.
Ukraine is closely coordinating actions with its partners in these issues as well – in energy issues. The Government of Ukraine, our state-owned companies are doing everything to ensure that we are ready to go through this winter season, which will indeed be the most difficult in our history.
And we are now in such circumstances, when it is already clear that the enemy will not achieve its goals, but it still takes time, efforts are still needed for the Russian calculation to fail, so that they lose in this direction as well. We have to endure this time and make all the necessary efforts together with our partners. And so it will be.
We will put pressure on terrorists on all fronts – on the frontline, on the political front, in economic matters, in the information sphere.
For every shelling, there will be a response to the occupiers. It will be for Orikhiv. It will be for Chaplyne. It will be for Shepetivka, for Myrhorod, for Kharkiv, for Mariupol and the cities of Donbas, for all others who are targeted by the Russian military.
Russia has prepared many problems, crises and catastrophes for our country, for Europe and for the world. But the greatest disaster will still be experienced by it itself, the terrorist state itself. This “Titanic” came to its iceberg on February 24, and no matter how hard they try to stay afloat, they won’t.
Eternal glory to all who fight for freedom!
Eternal glory to all our warriors!
Glory to Ukraine!
Here is the Ukrainian MOD’s operational assessment for today:
The operational update regarding the russian invasion on 18.00, on August 25, 2022
Glory to Ukraine! The one hundred eighty-third (183) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues.
The situation has not undergone significant changes in the Volyn and Polissya directions. The threat of the enemy launching missile and air strikes from the territory of the republic of belarus remains.
In the Siversky region, the enemy continues to hold separate units of the armed forces of the russian federation in the border areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions in order to demonstrate the presence and constrain the actions of units of the Defense Forces.
The enemy shelled civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Hai, Zalizniy Mist and Hirsk in the Chernihiv oblast and Bachivsk, Vilna Sloboda and Stukalivka in the Sumy oblast. Conducted aerial reconnaissance of the border regions of the UAVs.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy shelled the areas of Odnorobivka, Tsupivka, Prudyanka, Bazaliivka, Tsyrkuny, Petrivka, Velyki Prokhody, Pytomnyk, Ivanivka, Korobochkyne, Slobozhanske and Chepil settlements from tanks, barrel and rocket artillery. The districts of Pytomnyk, Pryshyb and Zalyman were hit by enemy aircraft.
The enemy made an unsuccessful offensive attempt near Petrivka, suffered losses and retreated. Supports the high intensity of UAV reconnaissance.
In the Slovyansk direction, the enemy used tanks, barrel artillery and MLRS for shelling in the vicinity of Velyka Komyshuvakha, Krasnopilla, Nova Dmytrivka, Dolyna and Dibrivne.
Defense forces of Ukraine repelled an attempted attack by enemy units near Dolyna and Dmytrivka.In the Kramatorsk direction, the areas of Spirne, Zvanivka, Siversk and Pryshyb were attacked by the enemy. The enemy made an attempt to improve the tactical position near Stariy Karavan, but was unsuccessful and retreated.
In the direction of Bakhmut, the enemy continued shelling the territories near Bakhmut, Veselaya Dolyna, Zaytseve, and Kodema. Areas of the settlements of Soledar, Zaitseve, Kodema and Yakovlivka were hit by enemy aircraft.
The occupiers tried to advance near Kodema and Bakhmutsky by offensive and assault actions, suffered losses and retreated.
In the Avdiyivka direction, the enemy, with airstrikes, tank fire, barrel artillery, and rocket salvo fire systems, tried to push back units of our troops, to hit important objects of military and civilian infrastructure in the areas of Avdiyivka, Maryinka, Krasnohorivka, Nevelske, Pervomaiske, Vodyane, Zalizne and Alexandropol.
The enemy tried to break through the defenses of our troops in the area of Pervomaiske settlement, received a strong repulse and retreated.
In the direction of Novopavlivka, shelling was recorded near Pavlivka, Elizavetivka and Novomykhailivka. The occupiers also carried out airstrikes near Volodymyrivka, Vuhledar and Pavlivka.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the enemy shelled the positions of our troops near Hulyaipilske, Orihiv, Zaliznychne, Shevchenko and Olhivske. Areas of the settlements of Orihiv, Hulyaipilske, Shcherbaky and Mali Shcherbaky were hit by air strikes.
In the South Buh direction, the enemy concentrated its efforts on holding the occupied positions and hitting our units with fire. Continued shelling from barrel, rocket artillery and tanks along the contact line. It carried out an airstrike near Bila Krynytsia.
Tried to carry out combat reconnaissance in the area of the settlement of Blahodatne, suffered losses and withdrew. The enemy’s attempted offensive in the Tavriysky district was choked under the fire of our soldiers and the invaders retreated.
We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Together we will win!
Glory to Ukraine!
Here is today’s assessment from the British MOD:
And here is their updated map for today:
Here is Chuck Pfarrer’s – same one as above – updated map and assessment regarding developments in Kherson:
KHERSON AXIS / 1630 UTC 25 AUG / UKR Partisans identified a RU troop concentration attempting a thrust at Tavriis’ke. UKR conventional forces were vectored to meet and defeat this force. UKR partisans and SOF active; electrical blackouts reported in Kherson and Nova Kakhovka. pic.twitter.com/ZOTgZE8hfK
— Chuck Pfarrer (@ChuckPfarrer) August 25, 2022
Chaplyno:
On #Ukraine️’s Independence Day #Russia has shelled 58 towns and villages of 🇺🇦. The most horrific shelling was at railway station Chaplyno, where rocket hit passenger train. 25 people died, incl.3 kids, and 31 were wounded. #RussiaIsATerroristState pic.twitter.com/SU9mK9X1k8
— Maria Zolkina (@Mariia_Zolkina) August 25, 2022
A 6yo girl burnt in the car. An 11yo boy was crushed by the rubble. Death toll of yesterday's russian missile strike on the train station in the Dnipropetrovsk region rose to 25. Now could be a good moment for everybody protesting against visa bans to protest against ru terrorism
— Olena Halushka (@OlenaHalushka) August 25, 2022
Zaporizhzzhia:
Video source: journalist Andriy Tsaplienko https://t.co/xKsbFoFHBW
— Olga Tokariuk (@olgatokariuk) August 25, 2022
Orikhiv:
Russian troops shelled residential areas of Orikhiv in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
They killed a 17-year-old boy and injured a woman, Oblast head Oleksandr Starukh informed https://t.co/j9LWRABFlA pic.twitter.com/uURISMK8ei
— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) August 25, 2022
Last night in comments, Jesse asked:
Adam, my understanding is that some (most?) of the supplies the US has been giving Ukraine come out of existing US stocks. I also understand that some of the aid is about equipment not in current stocks, and needs to be built & shipped overseas. In the latest defense budget, is there any provision, then, for renewing those depleted stocks? (In other words, is it a good time to be be a gun & ammunition manufacturer, because you can look forward to some giant orders?)
My understanding is that a lot of the most recent announcements are for material that has to produced. Basically the Defense of Ukraine Act established a funding mechanism that allows the US to send material from existing stock and establishes a fund that can be drawn down to pay for production of new stocks of material for Ukraine. I expect the National Defense Authorization Act will have funding to replenish US stocks. However, it is important to remember that some of what is being touted as the highest tech materials we’re supplying has been in use by the US for a long time and was scheduled to be phased out as newer weapons systems come on line. So I also expect this will just accelerate the transition to some of the newer systems that are in the procurement pipeline.
That’s enough for tonight.
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Open thread!
planetjanet
Thank you for all your work, Adam. The nuclear game the RU is playing is insane. Here is a little something nice that happened today in Latvia. Soviet monument torn down.
TaMara
I love Patron’s little shirts.
Fk Russia and their nuclear games and war crimes.
oldster
Russia will not win. Ukraine will win.
Thanks, Adam.
MomSense
Why the hell are they doing this at the nuclear power station?
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
My mother once got a temporary FB ban for calling russia a terrorist state in a comment. I’d love to ask Zuck what exactly he would call them if not that? What they’re doing at the plant is, indeed, terrifying, and that’s exactly how they want it. I am trying to imagine how the minds of russian soldiers and commanders and whatnot function, but then I realize they mostly don’t.
I was pleased that Biden had a long conversation with Zelenskyy and reaffirmed US support. I still don’t understand why he hasn’t gone to Kyiv, especially since he found time to go to Saudi Arabia. I get safety concerns (though…….it’s not like Saudi Arabia is the safest place on Earth), but if it was safe enough for Jill Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, etc…
Anyway. Thank you as always, Adam. (And I know she’s not the only one to use the line, but I’m choosing to believe that writing “play stupid games in the hope of winning a non-stupid prize” means you’re a Taylor Swift fan.)
Adam L Silverman
Everyone is most welcome.
Uncle Cosmo
That takes a fair dose of chutzpah – latest figures (2018) show over 1/4 of the Latvian population as Russian, and well over 1/3 of the population of Riga, the capital. (When I was there in 2001 the corresponding figures were 45% and 55% respectively. During the Soviet era, Riga, as a fairly Westernized city of ~750,000, was a favorite retirement locale for upper-level military who were not allowed to retire to Moskva, Leningrad or Kiev [Russian spelling].)
Spanky
European countries, particularly in the east, should consider any sabotage to the nuclear reactor as an act of war. I hope they are formulating responses.
Planetjanet
@Uncle Cosmo: That is such an odd tidbit. Why would the RU restrict where you could retire?
Origuy
@Planetjanet: Internal migration in the USSR was tightly controlled. It probably is still to some extent, in the Russian Federation. Everyone still has an internal passport. Everyone wanted to move to Moscow or Leningrad, so you needed permission.
Lyrebird
Yes. Chutzpah, a helicopter or a drone, and quite a bit of shot planning. They went all out to send the message.
The Moar You Know
@MomSense: they’d love nothing better than to be able to blame Ukraine for a radiation accident, and as a bonus it would cut off a lot of Ukraine’s electricity. That’s a best case scenario for Russia. The more likely upshot of this would be to force Ukraine to do a hot shutdown of the plant, which would not cause a radiation accident in the Chernobyl sense but would destroy the core of the plant and render it unusable.
featheredsprite
@Spanky: You have a point. I’m not sure what EU [or NATO] would do.
Thanks, Adam. We appreciate your efforts.
Grumpy Old Railroader
BJ Alumni Cheryl Rofer put up a good post on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant over at Lawyers, Guns & Money
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2022/08/russia-tries-to-steal-a-nuclear-power-plant
JanieM
@Origuy: There are restrictions like this in China too, if I understand correctly.
Marc
The massive footprint associated with traveling US Presidents likely prevents doing so in secrecy. I was at the Stanford campus when GWB came to visit one time. First arrival (by several hours) was a CV-22 tilt-rotor, which I assumed carried the Secret Service agents and advance team. The actual visit required a Sea Stallion heavy lift helicopter (no doubt for the limousines) and three Blackhawks, one of which was clearly GWBs ride as the Sea Stallion was always positioned just below and behind it. The odd part was that Air Force One landed at Moffett Field, basically a 15 minute drive from campus. I don’t see how they could pull off a trip to Kyiv without providing the Russians with a big fat tempting target.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@Marc: Right, I understand that. But there would also have had to be some–not the same, but some–level of security for the other US officials who have visited. It wouldn’t have to be in Kyiv, could be in Western Ukraine. I don’t know, Ze himself has said many times he’d like it if Biden came, and I think it would be nice. But if his team thinks there’s no way to do it safely, I suppose that wins out.
Marc
I’ve seen various senators and Nancy Pelosi herself wandering around on campus, usually with an aide or two and the university president and/or provost. Presidential security is apparently a whole different thing.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@Marc: Okay. It hasn’t been an issue for other presidents/PMs. I don’t think it’s completely infeasible. But I won’t belabor it any further.
Marc
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: Other countries have tightened their security somewhat after losing a few PMs and presidents, but still allow them out in public (and in war zones). We seem to be operating on the basic assumption that our democracy will not survive the loss of another president. I think that is an unfortunate choice, but we do have far too many nuts with high-powered weaponry.
Chetan Murthy
@Marc: Imagine if the RU AF attacked the Presidential delegation. Either
theythe delegation (Secret Service and military protection force) refrain from responding, and maybe a lotta people die, or they respond, in which case the US is firing shots at Russians, and …. who knows where that ends.In short, even *if* the US could guarantee Biden’s safety, it wouldn’t be a wise thing to do. Could start a hot war between us and the Russkies.
Carlo Graziani
While this is certainly true, there is a second effect at play. The war has exposed certain peacetime assumptions that underlie procurement schedules for weapons that have turned out to be alarmingly tight. Prominent examples are the M-31 missiles for the HIMARS systems, which are in such short supply that there may come a point where the US cannot afford to turn over any more to Ukraine without incurring unacceptable risk; and estimates that I’ve seen of the ATACMS 300 km range Unitary warhead missiles, also for HIMARS, indicate that the US Army has an inventory of only 290 of them worldwide, which is at least as likely an explanation for the Biden administration’s reluctance to furnish any to Ukraine as the official reason that they could be used to hit targets inside Russia.
A lot of peacetime procurement planning of this sort is getting thrown in the trash at the moment, because much of it was based on assumptions dating back to even before the 2014 invasion of Crimea, but even a year ago the world of threats looked rather different to DOD than it does today. There can be no doubt that a lot of new procurement contracts are under discussion as we speak, and that the next defense department budget submitted by the administration will make for some really interesting reading. OK, not really, but some parts will be interesting.
Andrya
When Bill Clinton visited San Jose, CA in 1996, the Secret Service shut down the highway he was going to travel on. I was working in an aerospace company in San Jose at the time, and one of the guys in my work group was an extreme RWNJ- with special emphasis on “nut”. He had apparently mailed a letter to the White House during the LBJ administration, including the sentence “The wrong man got shot in Dallas”. The Secret Service called our office several times during the day to verify that my colleague was safely parked at work, not out tracking the president.
@Marc: I agree that if the president is assassinated and is replaced by his/her same party vice president, democracy rolls on. That is not the case if both the president and vice president are somehow eliminated, and an opposite party Speaker of the House becomes president. That undoes a presidential election. With the rising tide of right-wing political violence, that is no longer unthinkable
ETA: Chetan Murthy’s comment gets to the heart of the matter. Even if we can risk the president being assassinated some random nut, we absolutely cannot risk assassination by ru military. And putin is probably crazy enough to try.
Lyrebird
Agreed. And the head of Poland or Czechia is not the same in ru military eyes as POTUS. Very different ball game.
imnsho back when Macron visited Russia, unless I got that wrong, same thinking. He’s a smaller fish with a different posture towards ru. No way should POTUS get within range.
@Chetan Murthy: I hope you haven’t seen the racist drunk video from Plano who was attacking S Asian Americans, but either way, I read about it and asked the FSM to look out for your mom. Who is hopefully somewhere nicer than Plano.
Chetan Murthy
@Lyrebird: Urrrgh. Oh great. Well, y’know, sadly, my mom lives in a *worse* place than Plano. Plano is a Dallas suburb, and Dallas County is pretty Blue. My mom lives in a Fort Worth suburb, and Fort Worth …. is not blue. Incidents have happened that scare the shit out of me, but …. well, mom wants what mom wants, and nobody’s gonna change her mind. She makes up rationalizations for why it’s not so bad there. But honestly, if I experienced what she had, I’d have either moved away already, or invested in heavy weaponry to take out the motherfucker and his entire family.
As it is, my mom has a pretty strict rule of not walking about alone. It’s that bad.
ETA: thank you for letting me know about this, and for keeping her in your thoughts. Sigh.
Marc
I’m no expert, but that tightness is likely by design. US military procurement policies favor purchasing dwindling numbers of brand new complex/expensive weapons systems over stockpiling more basic munitions. Without months of preparation (like the Iraq invasion), the US would pretty much have to achieve battlefield dominance in a near-peer conventional war within a week or two, after that shortages will likely kick in.
Geminid
The Iranian-drones-to-Russia story has cropped up again. Yesterday the AP reported that “western intelligence officials” said that Iran has shipped “hundreds” of drones to Russia. David Ignatius said the same thing in a column for the Washington Post. I guess we’ll know for sure if and when these drones show up on the battlefield.
rachel
@Planetjanet:
As I understand it, the USSR’s government didn’t want upper-level military officers retiring close to the men they’d commanded (AKA their personal power bases). I’d take that deal too if I were a retiring high-ranking Soviet officer, since Stalin’s way of heading off possible coups was much more… final.
The Pale Scot
@Origuy:
The same reason legions weren’t allowed into Rome.
Gvg
@Marc: can you imagine the blame gaming that would happen worldwide and with in the US, within the Democratic Party if something happened to the President? Do you trust Putin and all Russians within reach to make rational choices? Are you prepared for worse than a post 911 American freak out? Worse than post Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories that never end? The US is a lynch pin in a whole lot of world alliances that aren’t all treaties, but the Ukraine NATO situation is exactly the kind of tense time when that importance is really obvious.
And then there is the fact that we will always have imperfect understanding and intelligence about the minds of the Russians. So I think it would just be irresponsible and dumb to try to do some little moral booster trip risking the President but also risking oh starting a direct war between the US and Russia….or any number of other scenarios which we just don’t need. They can just use the phone. It’s been working great, better that past war time invaded countries Presidents managed.
MomSense
@Grumpy Old Railroader:
is it good though? She is such a cheerleader for nuclear everything and seems to minimize the risk of the plant being disconnected from the electrical grid and relying on diesel fired backup generators while the Russians are stealing that diesel for their tanks. All the experts I’ve heard are hair on fire.
I get that I’m in the minority here who didn’t care for CR but I still say that was a weak post from her.
YY_Sima Qian
@JanieM: The household registration (Hukou) system does not restrict travel or even settlement. However, people w/ non-local Hukou will limit access to public services such as education & healthcare, which historically has placed migrant workers at significant disadvantage & vulnerable to exploitation. There has been discussions to abolished the system for at least the past decade, & it has been loosened in fits & starts, unevenly across different jurisdictions, in the past few years. One hopes it will finally be abolished in the near future as a means to help revive the Chinese economy.
evodevo
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛:
So did I lol – the FB algorithm homed in on my comment I made right after the Bucha massacre about Russia being a terrorist state …I spent a week in FB jail. I noticed lately they have been pushing back less…
Another Scott
@MomSense: I don’t read Cheryl that way. She seems to me to be extremely level-headed about nuclear stuff – especially nuclear weapons stuff (she’s very skeptical about the need and feasibility of creating new plutonium “pits” for weapons, for example).
I think she’s right that VVP’s goal is to steal the Ukrainian nuclear plant and use it to power russia-controlled areas, to try to strangle Ukraine’s economy and as a giant FU! to Zelenskyy and the EU. He doesn’t want to damage the place, but he wants everyone else to think that if he can’t have it that he will so they better back off.
But nobody really knows with VVP, by design…
My $0.02. Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
way2blue
After the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, we had a briefing at work, in part, to instruct of us on what we could share with the press and what we couldn’t. Essentially a ‘stay in your lane’ reminder. As one link in the cascading disaster was the backup generators being swept away by the tsunami—I asked a numbskull question » Since the nuclear reactors generate electricity—couldn’t a thread of that power be used to ‘self-sustain’ the reactors—rather than depend on grid power or backup generators? The answer was ‘No’. But I didn’t & don’t have the background to understand why…
In any case—is this recent move by Russia to up the ante at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in fact cutting off the reactors’ ability to self power themselves? Thus now soley dependent on diesel generators requiring a steady supply of diesel fuel. I am not understanding why the IAEA doesn’t simply show up there (with UN Peacekeepers or something similar to secure the facility)…
MomSense
@Another Scott:
He wanted to steal the whole country and when that didn’t go according to plan he switched gears to massive destruction, genocide and ethnocide.