Screenshot from video released by Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant shows bright flaring object landing in grounds of the nuclear plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine. (Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant via AP)
Posted on 08/12/2022 8:24:14 PM PDT by AmericaFirst101
Screenshot from video released by Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant shows bright flaring object landing in grounds of the nuclear plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine. (Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant via AP)
Waiting for Godotsky.
Cool
Oh yeah, we know that’s the case
Interesting. Thanks for that.
I agree
Pretty much yeah
“Ex-President Medvedev Warns of ‘Possible’ Incidents at EU Nuclear Facilities”
TRUE
Top Russian Official THREATENS Nuclear Plant ‘INCIDENTS’ Beyond Ukraine: ‘NEW CHERNOBYL.’ Former Russian president and cavalier psychopath Dmitry Medvedev on Friday decided to up the nuclear ante with an unhinged screed on messaging app Telegram.
His intervention on the crisis at the Zaporizhzhia plant comes AFTER calls were made at an EMERGENCY UN SECURITY COUNCIL meeting Thursday for steps to be taken to deescalate the risk of potentially “catastrophic consequences” at the site on Thursday.
“This is a serious hour, a grave hour and the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] must be allowed to conduct its mission to Zaporizhzhia as soon as possible,” Rafael Grossi, the agency’s head, said.
Alarm about the situation has continued to grow after Energoatom, the plant’s Ukrainian state-run operator, reported five blasts at the site on Thursday. At least one of the strikes occurred near a site where radioactive materials are stored, the operator wrote on Telegram.”
ATTENTION: Russia threatens to sabotage European nuclear power plants
“What can one say,” former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Putin’s Security Council, wrote Friday. “DON’T FORGET that there are NUCLEAR SITES IN THE ERUROPEAN UNION, TOO. AND INCIDENTS ARE POSSIBLE THERE AS WELL.”
“Russian troops have been “using the plant as a military base to fire at Ukrainians, knowing that they can’t and won’t shoot back,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated during an Aug. 1 address to the U.N., although some Ukrainian officials have signaled that they would try to resolve that dilemma.”
More recently, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of setting a new low “in the world history of terrorism” through its conduct at the plant.
“Today, another shelling by Russia was recorded on the territory of the plant in the immediate vicinity of the NPP facilities,” Zelensky said Thursday. “No one else has used a nuclear plant so obviously to threaten the whole world and to put forward some conditions. And absolutely everyone in the world should react immediately to expel the occupiers from the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.”
A few conclusions:
1—With the liberation of the Severodonetsk urban agglomeration and the crushing of the Bakhmutka cauldron (both, in turn, consequences of the blooming of the Popasnaya tournesol), the Allied Forces had won significant tempo and were progressing rather rapidly in the direction of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), Soledar, and Seversk (from multiple directions). At the same time, the offensive on Slavyansk was also gathering pace, with breakthroughs at Dolgenkoye and in the Sherwood Forest and on the south bank of Seversky Donets across from Svyatogorsk. There was little forward movement in the Krasny Liman/Raigorodok direction, as the forces that had succeeded there earlier were split between the Svyatogorsk and Severodonetsk fronts. But no matter, success was palpable. One could almost taste Ukrainian collapse.
2—The first sign of the change in the pace came when the victorious Russian units that had liberated Lisichansk were sent for rotation and well-deserved rest. The Lugansk units were unable to develop the offensive at Seversk and, despite entering the city on many occasions, could not remove the entrenched Ukrainian positions on the commanding heights outside the city, could not retain the nearly-secured bridgehead in Seversk, and were forced to resort to positional battles, particularly as Slavyansk reinforcement came to rescue the Ukrainian units that were seriously considering retreat.
3—The second, and this time critical change of pace came from the Russian command reacting to the perceived threat of the Great Ukrainian Kherson Counter-re-offensive. The rested troops did not return to the Artyomovsk-Soledar-Seversk front en masse, but were largely routed to defend Kherson.
4—As I suspected at the time and as I repeatedly stated, the Ukrainian counter-offensive was either impossible, in view of lack of reserves and equipment, or a feint to distract from another offensive direction or from the Russian plans in Donbass, or, more likely, equal large doses of each. The Kherson counter-offensive was as impossible then, as it is now, as it has been since the beginning of the conflict, as it will continue to be for at least another year to a year and a half.
5a—Unfortunately—although entirely unintentionally—the Kherson counter-offensive indeed worked as an element of psychological warfare, as recently claimed by Mikhailo Podolyak. Beggars are not choosers, and the mortally wounded Ukrainian regime will take any success—even an accidental one like the above—as a sign of a major victory. In the end, the Ukrainian offensive became a figment of Arestovich’s imagination. Unfortunately, it also scrambled the immediate plans of the Russian command in Donbass.
5b—Do not listen to Strelkov. Do not listen to me. Look at the map, at the battles, at the strategic depth. Strelkov was wrong—Kherson was never in any real danger. I was wrong—but only to the extent that I thought that the Kherson counter-offensive was a real feint, when it turned out to be mostly an accidental one.
6—As troops now continue to be re-deployed, as the threat in Kherson is increasingly confirmed to be illusory, the front will start (has started) moving again. The operational pause of 2-3 weeks was a loss of tempo. I doubt Russia will make this mistake again.
That’s all from me. More later.
Intel Slava Z
🇷🇺🇺🇦 A source told the official that the largest air military operation in the last thirty years is being prepared in the next few weeks. This is the reason for the sabotage in Novofedorovka, the failed attack on Zyabrovka and the aggressive attempts of the Ukrainians to arrange a man-made disaster at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
The air operation will be carried out by massive aviation forces in close cooperation with formations and units of other branches of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
SOURCE:
Intel slava is a Russian News aggregator funded by Putin, Russian ministry of defense, FSB, GRU and SVR
“The HIMARS have given Ukraine the ability to out-distance the Russian artillery and attack the Dnieper bridges. That gives Ukraine a chance.”
You let me know when those ‘god tier’ ‘game changers’ can drop 6500 artillery rounds in 24 hours and then do it for 7 solid days in a row....
Ukraine has no artillery to even remotely give adequate counter-battery fire.
Ukraine has no tanks left and very little left in way of mech infantry.
Ukraine has little to no air to provide suppression or any thing resembling air superiority.
And Ukraine’s ability to muster and then adequately train manpower has devolved to force recruiting 70+ year olds.
It’s a matter of when, not if for Ukraine.....as to when it implodes.
Another issue against Putin is their rejection of him & his insane invasion:
Moscow.
https://www.facebook.com/100084135733150/videos/1244571526378913
There isn’t any stalemate in this picture. Russians are expending artillery shells which they have a 50 century supply of and the ukronazis are expending human lives. Russians don’t even need to buy/import anything in order to manufacture arty shells, just leave the switch in the ON position...
Are the results of this conflict going to change, RevMom?
Is Ukraine still winning, RevMom?
How many more internal assassination attempts will ZelenskyIdiot survive given we over 10+ attempts already?
And FYI, most in Russia support Putin’s action as well as hating the US and the West. Bet.
“…Ukraine’s Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi said that there is “no adequate control over operations at the plant.”…
…The situation there “has been deteriorating very rapidly,” he said. At least one nuclear reactor was forced to shut down last week after shelling and explosions at the plant shut down the electrical power transformer and two backup transformers.”
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And that “shelling and explosions at the plant” are coming from Ukrainian artillery. Instead of your CONSTANT propaganda drumbeat perhaps you could endeavor to convince your friends in the Victoria Nuland gang who are pulling the strings of their Ukrainian Project puppets to direct the shelling to cease?
I pretty much agree
Nice try with your attempt to mislead. That picture is from March 4, 2022 and is simply an image of a parachute flare used for illumination.
Quora
Alexander Finnegan
J.D. Law, Marxist-Leninist May 9
Originally Answered: What kind of person is Putin?
He is a very cautious and deliberate person.
Willing to take large risks but only if carefully calculated, first. Once he does, he goes all in.
Focused on keeping Russia together, protecting it from the West, and ensuring the people of Russia and those within its orbit are safe. He was very upset by the collapse of the Soviet Union because it caused people to be left without the Russian state. They were cut adrift.
Sees himself as a protector and father of the nation.
He is non-ideological and pragmatic.
Cares for his family.
A political moderate compared to Russian hardliners like Patrushev.
Prefers diplomacy to war.
Prefers to behave in a polite a gentleman like fashion unless the opposition responds in a bad faith manner, in which case he can be as ruthless as necessary.
No patience for disloyalty.
Fairly conventional Russian male.
Elder statesman at the top of his game.
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