Posted on 08/17/2024 8:02:50 AM PDT by bitt
Ukrainian forces struck a nuclear power plant in the Zaporizhia region on Sunday, an area controlled by Russia.
The cooling systems at the nuclear plant caught fire, sending a dark cloud of smoke in the air above the plant.
According to Wikipedia, the Zaporizhia nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and among the ten largest in the world. It has been under Russian control since 2022. It was built by the Soviet Union near the city of Enerhodar, on the southern shore of the Kakhovka Reservoir on the Dnieper River.
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that a fire broke out at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. The cooling system was allegedly not working.
On Friday, Russia warned that Ukraine is plotting a dirty bomb attack at a Russian nuclear energy plant.
Via Russia Today news service:
RT: we’re hearing that Ukrainian armed forces are planning to detonate a dirty nuclear bomb, and the potential targets are storage sites at power plants. Well, to get a bit more on this, let’s cross live now to our tea correspondence, Igor Zhdanov. I mean, Igor, I know that this is something that’s literally emerged, well, really within the last half an hour, in five minutes. Very disturbing. What do we know at this stage?
Igor Zhdanov: Well, basically, we know that various reports in various media outlets have emerged, citing anonymous forces within the Russian security block, purporting that indeed, Kyiv could be planning a dirty bomb attack against nuclear waste facilities of the Zaporozhye and the Kursk nuclear power plants.
Indeed, some very Concerning developments and some very concerning and indeed alarming news. Apparently, according to these reports, the Russian security block even knows the direct location of the special warheads that Kyiv has prepared for this attack, and they do provide this location in the Dnipropytrovsk region of Ukraine.
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Why not? Ukraine and Zelensky have been trying to start WWIII for the last two years. Why have they rounded up thousands of Ukraine citizens to be killed, while refusing to let any of them cast a ballot in an election? Ukraine is getting good money from U.S. taxpayers to keep this thing going, and they aren't even required to show where any of that money has gone. Ukraine couldn't survive without that money, because like in this country, plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle, their family members and big donors are making money hand-over-fist through investments in the military industrial complex by keeping this latest proxy war with Russia going.
State run news source is sketchy, being copied and pasted by another sketchy "news" source and especially sketchy author.
The United States will be releasing the dirty nuke, not the Ukes.
You believe that America did Chernobyl?
if i had the option it would be the best move.
minimal risk.
minimal deaths.
high chance of collapsing the USSR.
In post 16 you said we did it, I guess that was a vague yes.
oh, sorry if my reasoning didn’t convey the obvious ‘Yes, of course’
the number of safety systems and back ups that had to fail at once was another indicator
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