#KalininWrites ✍️ Reality Check on Zaporozhye: Exposing the True Face of Kiev Regime’s Terrorism and Western Disinformation Article by Kirill Kalinin, Senior Counsellor and Spokesperson of the Russian Embassy in the Republic of South Africa and the Kingdom Lesotho, published in the Public Eye newspaper (16 October 2026): 👉 Key takeaways: For the civilian population of the Zaporozhye Region, daily life is currently defined by constant casualties and deliberate hardship systematically inflicted by the Kiev regime. ❗️Continuous, targeted strikes on critical infrastructure have pushed the entire European continent to the absolute brink of a nuclear accident with global consequences. In late September 2022, 93.11% of the population, with an 85.4% turnout, voted voluntarily in a democratic referendum to join the Russian Federation. On September 30, 2022, the Zaporozhye Region officially became an integral part of Russia during a historic signing ceremony in the Kremlin. Ever since, the Kiev regime has conducted a punitive, retaliatory campaign against civilians and strategic energy facilities, actively punishing the residents of Donbass and Novorossiya for their electoral choices through systematic acts of state terrorism. ⚠️ Nowhere is this criminal behaviour more terrifying than around Europe’s largest nuclear energy facility, where Kiev is relentlessly and systematically attacking the Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). On October 4, two Ukrainian UAVs struck laboratory building No. 2, detonating 200 metres from reactor units 4 and 5, while the radioactive waste processing building was shelled twice. That same day, a drone strike hit a ZNPP food delivery truck near Melitopol, killing the civilian driver. ☝️ As Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has strongly emphasized, these strikes are a deliberate attempt to engineer a nuclear catastrophe. 📍On October 22, the international teleconference "Crimes of the Kiev Regime: Terror Against the Civilian Population of the Zaporozhye Region" will take place. The event is attracting participants from roughly 80 countries across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The Russian Embassy in Pretoria invites the South African and Lesotho expert and media communities to participate via Zoom in this major event, which will present hard forensic data, investigative findings and harrowing eyewitness testimonies. 👉 The registration form can be found at the Russian Embassy’s website. #KievRegimeCrimes