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#Ukraine: ZNPP is an unsolved threat; Starlink is a military weapon system. Henry Sokolski, NPEC

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🗓️ 3 June 2023

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#Ukraine: ZNPP is an unsolved threat; Starlink is a military weapon system. Henry Sokolski, NPEC
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1776663/russia-military-Zaporizhzhya-nuclear-power-plant
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/spacexs-starlink-awarded-pentagon-contract-supplying-satellites-ukraine

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelorette.

0:12.2

This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Bachelorette. Out of key, this report, situation at

0:18.3

separation nuclear power plant is deteriorating every day. This is date line within these

0:23.8

last hours. According to state nuclear regulatory inspector it. The London version of this

0:31.0

gives us more detail. Russian troops dismantling nuclear power station, sparking fears for safety

0:37.6

of plan. Subhead, Russian troops around this apparition nuclear power plant attack the

0:43.4

city of Nicopoul and surrounding villages on the bank of the Danepur River with drones

0:48.1

in heavy artillery, damaging several residents. The Russians are operating in a combat zone and

0:54.7

they're occupying a nuclear power plant that is fragile to say the least. Henry Sokolsky, the

1:01.0

executive director of the Non-Prooferation Policy Education Center, joins me now because

1:06.2

Henry has been helping me follow this story for months. We repeat ourselves each week because

1:12.3

it appears from the outside that the Russians have thought through what possession of this

1:18.8

zaparizia nuclear power plant means in terms of a potential battlefield disrupting any offensive

1:26.0

by the Ukrainians and creating a no-go zone in the Danepur River Valley. Henry, a very good

1:32.8

evening to you. I see nothing new here except for a restatement of the same alarm we've had for

1:37.8

some time. Your measure of all states not just Russia and Ukraine, all states are they showing

1:46.2

education in watching what's going on in Ukraine about their own nuclear power plants. Good evening

1:51.9

to you, Henry. Good evening. It's a mixed bag. I think in central or Eastern Europe there is

2:01.6

this standard saw being generated that well security and nuclear energy are synonymous because

2:08.8

there are substitute for Russian natural gas. So build baby build is there a refrain and by that I

2:16.5

mean let's see how many reactors we can get from the Koreans, South Koreans, the Americans, maybe

2:25.6

the French and there's a paper bidding war going on to build. Are you ready for this more than 40

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