Russo-Ukrainian War - 2022 Edition - Part 7

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UN nuclear watchdog finds no military equipment stashed at Ukrainian plants​

An inspection of Ukrainian nuclear plants found no military equipment stashed at the sites, debunking a claim from Russia, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says.
Rafael Grossi made the remarks after Russia’s foreign intelligence service on Monday accused Ukraine of storing Western-supplied arms at nuclear power stations across the country.
Grossi told the European Parliament that the IAEA, the UN nuclear watchdog, had established a permanent presence at all Ukrainian nuclear facilities, and he had ordered inspections on Tuesday to ascertain whether any of them contained military equipment.
“The result of those inspections was negative,” he said.
 
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I notice a pattern of high ranking Russian officials coming to SA a day or two before USA officials

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Why South Africa continues to be neutral in Ukraine-Russia war

Pretoria has refused to condemn Moscow’s invasion but continues to call for dialogue.
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The United States has criticised South Africa’s decision to hold military exercises next month with Russia and China as the war in Ukraine rages on.

The exercises – called Mosi, which means “Smoke” in Tswana, one of South Africa’s 11 official languages – will see 350 of South Africa’s soldiers train alongside their Russian and Chinese counterparts.

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“The United States has concerns about any country … exercising with Russia as Russia wages a brutal war against Ukraine,” Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, said on Monday.

The comments from Washington came hours after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with his South African counterpart, Naledi Pandor, in Pretoria.

South Africa defended its decision to hold the drills.


“All countries conduct military exercises with friends worldwide,” Pandor told reporters. “There should be no compulsion on any country that it should conduct them with any other partners.”

She said the exercises were “part of a natural course of relations between countries”, adding that Pretoria should not be denied “the right to participate” in the drills.

Lavrov said there was no need for any country to be concerned about them.

“Our exercises are transparent,” he told reporters. “We, together with our South African and Chinese partners, have provided all the relevant information. We don’t want to provoke any scandals or confrontation. We just want every country to be able to have their own rights in the international systems as provided by the UN Charter.”
South African government officials described Lavrov’s visit, which came a day before US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was due to arrive in South Africa, as an ordinary visit.
 
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