Kiev Drone Strikes Zaporozhzhye NPP; West IAEA Silent; Russia Orekhov Breakthrough; Konstantinovka (Alexander Mercouris)

Ukraine has launched a fiber optic drone directly into the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and yet Western governments and the IAEA have nothing to say about it. Alexander Mercouris on The Duran breaks down a day of alarming developments: the accelerating collapse of Ukrainian resistance in Konstantinovka, the rapid Russian encirclement of Orekhov, credible new intelligence on the Oreshnik missile's devastating submunition capability, and the deepening silence in Western media as the Ukrainian front approaches a genuine existential crisis. Is the West sleepwalking toward a moment it will not be able to paper over? 



The important point you can take from this latest Alexander Mercouris update on the conflict in Ukraine is that the Ukrainians have AGAIN attacked the Zaporozhzhye Nuclear Power Plant held by the Russians. The media constantly portrays the Ukrainians as the victims of Russian aggression but the reverse is true. The war began with the coup in Kiev where extremists took power who wanted to rid the country of Russians - when the country was a hybrid construction of areas that have been Russian for hundreds of years. Naturally the people in the Russian areas refused to go along with the coup government - in the Donbass and Crimean Peninsula - which led to the war.

Time Stamps:

00:00:00 Introduction and overview
00:01:24 Ukrainian drone attack on school in Zaporizhzhia region
00:04:28 AI targeting errors and Western silence on civilian strikes
00:06:24 Drone attack on Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
00:11:27 History of Ukrainian operations against the NPP
00:15:36 IAEA silence and Western media complicity
00:23:18 Escalation pattern and international law on NPP attacks
00:25:57 Hornet drones and the Mariupol to Crimea highway offensive
00:32:10 Konstantinovka collapses under Russian advance
00:37:53 Orekhov encirclement and Zaporizhzhia region crisis
00:41:17 Existential stakes if Slavyansk and Zaporizhzhia city fall
00:44:16 Oreshnik missile strike on Kiev bunkers imminent
00:50:40 Oreshnik submunition details and penetration capability
00:59:47 European diplomacy deadlock and Macron pressure
01:02:30 Russian economy resilient despite Western sanctions
01:12:52 Iran, Lebanon, Israel and the Beaufort Castle capture
01:15:54 Global oil crisis and Japan turning to Russia
01:17:42 Germany political instability and closing thoughts

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, June 2, 2026.]