Jack Posobiec of Human Events recently addressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s claim that Russia intends to destroy the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is currently under Russian control.
Despite Zelensky’s claim, Poso urged the Ukrainian leader to seek peace. This comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin said that a peace deal had been drawn up between Russia and Ukraine within a month of the conflict, but Zelensky eventually went back on it under Western influence. And since then, Ukraine has struggled to gain ground militarily.
Posobiec said that Zelensky, on July 4, “didn’t congratulate the United States on 247 years of American independence,” but that “he came out with a warning” claiming that “Russia was mining the Zaporizhzhia region nuclear power plant, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.”
The nuclear power plant is just one of four of Ukraine’s nuclear plants, but it is under Russian control. Posobiec asked, “Why would Russia mine their own nuclear power plant?” He went on to say that this information is still unclear, noting that “no one’s actually been able to see any information about these mines.”
Though Zelensky has claimed that Russia plans to destroy the power plant, the host added that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said they “don’t see any evidence of mining at this operation.”
Posobiec went on to say that July 4 marked one month since Ukraine began its counteroffensive, a mission that has fallen far short of its initial ambition, which Ukraine has admitted.
“They failed to take back meaningful territory,” Posobiec said. “They didn’t even make it through the initial defenses. They said they were going to go down all the way to Mariupol. They were going to break the land bridge, that we’re going to be at the sea of Azov by the Fourth of July. Instead, they called it off.”
This comes amid a NATO meeting that is set to take place next week, where the US and European members are going to be looking for Ukraine’s gains in the war. NATO is set to host a summit in Vilnius, Lithuania on July 11 and 12. Sweden has made strides to become part of the international organization since the Ukraine war, but Turkey, a member, has consistently pushed back against Sweden’s accession over a reported dispute with the Swedish government and the recent permitted burning of a Koran in Stockholm.
If Ukraine were to join NATO during the current conflict, it would trigger Article Five of the treaty, which would drag all NATO members into a war with Russia, one of the most dangerous nuclear powers in the world. Instead, Posobiec urged Zelensky to “find peace for your people, and this war.”
“Stop having to send Ukrainians home in body bags. Boys, men, women and children caught up in this. Stop this war. Stop it now and stand up for yourself and for your countrymen. This is how you can become a true leader, to go down throughout the ages, as the man who saved Ukraine.”
