Posted on 07/17/2024 5:00:39 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Millions of Russians in the south of the country were left without electricity on Tuesday after a power unit at the Rostov nuclear power plant was shut down due to a malfunction.
The Rostov nuclear power plant supplies power to the Russia's entire Southern Federal District, and rolling power outages affected residents of Russia's Krasnodar Territory, Rostov region, Sevastopol, and Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula illegally annexed by President Vladimir Putin from Ukraine in 2014.
Russia's state-owned energy group Rosatom said one of the nuclear power plant's four power units was shut down due to a malfunction of the turbine generator.
"The reasons are being investigated; the radiation background is normal," a Rosatom representative told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Russia was also hit by widespread power outages earlier this month after a Ukrainian drone barrage struck the country's Kursk, Belgorod, and Bryansk regions.
Kyiv's drone attacks left 90 percent of the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, without electricity and water, Telegram channel Mash, which says it is linked to Russia's security services, reported on July 1.
Ukraine's Energy Ministry said at the time that about 90 percent of the Belgorod region, including the cities of Belgorod and Stary Oskol, was without electricity.
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Tell your Biden to tell your Elensky to withdraw what's left of the Ucrazian army from the future Russian Federation oblasts of Kharkov, Nikolaev and Odessa.
Finally, Californians can laugh at somebody else.
Your beloved Putin is scared of President Trump. And Kremlin whining this morning about Haley saying the same thing last night. Lol!
Trump and Vance are going to pull your money, Maxi. Does give you a warm feeling for them?
According to Russia, the reactor itself is fine, the turbine failed.
I do wonder why they shut down one reactor, and aren’t supplying power with the other three, even if only on a rotating blackout basis.
Maybe Rosatom isn’t quite being forthcoming?
Naaahhh...
Because it was competently executed?
Wow
“Because it was competently executed?”
Naa, because the Neocons have a history of shelling nukes in Ukraine.
...or a frying pan!
Meanwhile a large section of Ukraine has been without power for over 24 hours....
The Putinists are going to be very disappointed when they see that Trump/Vance won’t surrender Ukraine to Putin and his inbred Mongol invaders next year.
Another marcus-Isabel van Poutin clown car “news” drill fizzles out...
According to a podcast yesterday that whole region is having an awful heatwave. As if spilling guts wasn’t bad enough.
Temps reported as high as 44C or 111 degrees F.
He obviously has an assignment to track Russian news sites. But you notice he still hasn’t posted anything regarding the Russian reaction to the shooting. I wonder why? Perhaps the Russians reacted with a lot of class, unlike the party that controls him. That would be my guess.
Yes, you have a very good observation here.
You are toast, Maxi. Have a nice election countdown.
">Donald Trump’s selection of arch-isolationist JD Vance as his running mate has cemented Europe’s fears that a second Trump term would drastically reduce transatlantic security ties, increase tariffs and sever critical US support for Ukraine.
Vance has dismissed US security guarantees as a crutch that has allowed Europe “to ignore its own security” and argued that US aid for Ukraine is unnecessary."
https://www.ft.com/content/563c5005-c099-445f-b0f1-4077b8612de4
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