Especially for those who are not familiar with the events of the last year in Ukraine - it is not possible to understand the nuclear accident at the Zaporozhia nuclear power plant outside the context of the brutal civil war being waged in the Ukraine as the result of a coup that was largely engineered by the State Department and Victoria Nuland.

It is hardly possible to imagine anything worse than a nuclear accident in a highly unstable government that is in economic, social and financial meltdown and ruled by a Junta that has unleashed nazi thugs to look after its nuclear installations - and where truth is the first victim.

NOTHING that comes from the Ukrainian government, or from its western backers can be belived.

The following is a timeline that I have hurriedly put together to bring some context.

Ukraine civil war and Zaporozhia nuclear accident – a timeline

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The present crisis in Ukraine began late last year but arose out of the history of Ukraine and the imbalances connected with the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Ukraine has always been an integral part of Russia and the two nations have been inseperable until after the Russian revolution of 1917 when Lenin gave Ukraine seperate status as a republic of the USSR.

The Soviet entity consisted of parts of the Ukraine that were Ukrainian-speaking and the industrial East which was the centre of the USSR's coal mining and metallurgical industries.

After World War 11 parts of what had been parts of Poland were integrated into the USSR. This was the birthplace of radical Ukrainian nationalism that looked back to nazis sympathisers, such as Stepan Bandura.

The main part of Ukraine, but in particular the east, actively took part in the Great Patriotic War against Nazism.

This has always remained a major point of difference. When the Soviet Union collapsed the new Ukraine inherited a nation with two parts that were incompatible.

Obama and the White House have become implacably opposed to Vladimir Putin, especially since the onset of the crisis in Syria and especially since Putin reached agreement with Bashar Assad to destroy Syria's chemical weapons, so removing a pretext for America to wage war on Syria.

American rhetoric against Putin increased through 2013 and reached a crescendo with the onset of the Euromaidan in Kiev and the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

The crisis started when the government of Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign a EU association agreement which did not provide the same the same economic benefits as joining a Eurasia Customs Union

Yanukovych tells West to stay out of Ukraine crisis

21 November 2013
- Public protests started on Maidan Nezalezhnosti ("Independence Square") in Kiev to oppose joining the Customs Union and in favour of the EU

These protests became more violent as there was more and more interference from the EU and from the United States.

The following is a pretty good background to the events of the Maidan and the role of the West in engineering a coup in Kiev

The following is a retrospective of events from both sides - made by RT

Events exploded again in February, right at the end of the Winter Games in Sochi

21 February

The coup which overthrows President Yanukovych, who signed a compromise deal with opposition leaders which would implement constitutional changes to hand powers back to parliament and early elections, to be held by December. He is forced by the actions of the crowd on the Maidan to flee.

Demonstrators are shot, in all probability by ultra-nationalist forces, rather than by police

March 16

Crimeans vote in a referendum to rejoin Russia or return to its status under the 1992 constitution

7–23 February 2014,

2 May

Massacre in Odessa at the Trade Union house in which at east 40 people were burned. The western media described this simply as the conflict between two sides, however the truth goes much further than this, as shown by the following video:

11 May
The people of Donbass hold a referendum in which Donetsk and Lugansk confirm the setting up of a People's Republic and express the desire not to live under the Kiev Junta

This is held to be illegal by Kiev and the western powers and the reponse by Kiev is an "anti-Terror operation" which used artillery and bombing against the people of Donbass, singling out civilian targets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donbass_status_referendums,_2014

The Donbass referendum - yet another abject failure of US foreign policy

18 May

Ukrainian police stopped a group of armed men (from the nazi Right Sector) from entering Europe's largest nuclear power plant, the Zaporozhia NPP, located in southeastern Ukraine

Reports that armed gunmen from the Right Sector attempted to enter the Zaporozhia NPP

http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2014/05/breaking-news-right-sector-attempt.html

2 June

Inna Kukurudza killed in an attack by Ukrainian airforce on Lugansk - with 8 killed and 28 wounded - this becomes an emblem of the outrage against Donbass civilians

Early June

American specialists in military uniform in early June arrived in in the second unit under conditions of increased secrecy entered, and that the plant's employees were sent on "temporary leave". Staff of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant reported that staff of the second unit were not allowed at work for several days, and that the purpose of of the American experts' actions unit 2 was kept hidden from plant personnel

17 July

The Malaysian airline, MH-17 is shot down over Donbass within a short period of time of Putin's plane flying over the same airspace.

The western media immediately rushes in to blame Putin for the incident although subsequently there is enough evidence (suppressed by western governments and media) to indicate that it was not brought down by a rebel BUK, but by a Ukrainian air force plane, shown sunsequently to have returned to base minus its missiles.

Here is an early (July) discussion of the events

Self-proclaimed republics’ forces practically encircle Mariupol — Novorossiya News Agency

14 August

Letter written from the President of the Ukrainian company SE NNEGC "Energoatom" (ГП НАЭК «Энергоатом) to leaders of the American company Westinghouse -

The President Of Westinghouse

in Europe, the Middle East

and Africa

Goodine The Willow Brush

August 14, 2014

Mr. Brush,

This letter in accordance with the requirements of the IAEA Nuclear Safety Standards is to infirm you that the IAEA working International Safety Advisory Group to Ukraine insists strongly that NNGEC Energiatom must immediately replace fuel assemblies in the following reactors

SS Rivne NPP (type of reactor WER-1000 units 3 and 4

SS Rivne Zaporizhye NPP (type of reactor WER-1000 )

SS South Ukraine NPP (WER-1000 )

Sincerely,

Yuriy Nedashkovsky

President

NNEG “Energoatom”

19 August

The government of Ukraine orders the guarding of all nuclear materials and nuclear facilities. This function is given to the National Guard, who are largely made up of nazi Right Sector.

"As surreal as it sounds Poroshenko’s government put the terrorists that tried to take nuclear plants by force in charge." -- George Eliason

31 August

:

Europe’s largest nuclear power plant is vulnerable to ‘direct bombardment’ in Ukraine if caught in the conflict, a Greenpeace nuclear energy expert told a German newspaper, claiming that its nuclear reactors are not protected from armor-piercing weapons.

http://rt.com/news/184004-greenpeace-zaporizhia-npp-danger/

21 September

The Minsk Protocols are signed by the OCSE, the Ukrainian government, Russia and representatives of the Lugansk and Donets People's Republics.

This is supposed to lead to a ceasfire and exchange of prisoners. This is immediately violated and since then there has been a pause in the most intense fighting and the authorities on the LPR and DPR have been able to consolidate their positons in areas they hold.

Here is an analysis of the agreement from the Saker ( a reliable commentator):

Saker report on the Ukrainian situation and the Minsk memorandu

31 October

As Ukraine moves into winter and has yet to settle its outstanding mult-billion dollar bill to Russia and is cut off from its traditional sources of coal in the Donbass there are severe doubts about how Ukraine is going to survivо through the winter.

After a lot of hard bargaining Russia bends over backward and agrees to supply gas to Ukraine which then repays a part of its debt

Russia,Ukraine agree on gas supplies until March 2015

Kiev authorities drive Ukraine into energy crisis as winter is about to set in

The Crisis at Zaporozhya nuclear

power plant

25 November

Local residents in Odessa start to notice problems with electricity

28 November -

Blackouts of electricity in Odessa due to "a minor accident"

28 November - 2 December

Discussions between personnel of the Zaporozhia NPP and Tishchenko of Emergency Services.

These Skype exchange are hacked and reavealed to the public

Locals are concerned by:

- a series of strange explosions on the territory of the power plant;

- the unusual activity by state services in the area of the nuclear power plant, iincluding the distribution to the local population of anti radiation drugs containing iodine ;

- glowing in the sky above the village;

- t he degree of water pollution in the Kakhovka reservoir;

- the strange behaviour of livestock;

- the flight of people from Enerhodar, situated next to the plant