Posted on 09/08/2022 4:38:13 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Heavy fighting erupted in areas near the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in Ukraine after Kyiv warned it might have to shut down the plant to avoid a radiation disaster.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in its daily update on Thursday that some villages near the plant were bombed over the past 24 hours by “tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery”.
Overnight, Russian forces fired rockets and heavy artillery into the nearby town of Nikopol four times, the area’s regional governor, Valentyn Reznichenko, wrote on Telegram, damaging at least 11 houses and other buildings.
On Wednesday, an official said the nuclear plant may have to be shut down and called on residents in areas near the embattled facility to evacuate for their own safety.
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Mykola Lukashuk, head of the Dnipropetrovsk region council, said on the Telegram channel that Russian forces were shelling Nikopol from the direction of Enerhodar – the main town serving the Zaporizhzhia plant.
“The occupiers are deliberately shelling civilian objects in order to terrorise the population,” Lukashuk said.
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On Thursday, the Russian state TASS news agency reported, citing a Moscow-installed head of the Enerhodar administration, Alexander Volga, that Ukraine forces have not been striking the plant with artillery.
"No cannon artillery strikes were observed at the (plant), but drones periodically fly in," TASS quoted Volga, as saying.
"Projectiles have been dropped from UAVs on the territory of the plant itself for the past two days."
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Poles are likely flying air support and intercept missions in Ukraine using MiG 29s and F-16s.
idiot Zelenski shelling the nuke plant has to be one of the stupidest things ever...
LOL. No lawn darts to support your theory.
Gee, I hope not since Poland is a NATO country and that would be a huge escalation. Do you have a source?
Same as their gas cut off to Europe, the Russians might cut off or divert the power from this nuclear plant. If only they can figure out how to rejigger the transmission lines.
Largest in nuke Europe, so I have read.
Zelesnky doing this to force Internation/NAto complete involvement in Ukraine war.
Zelesnky doing this to force Internation/NAto complete involvement in Ukraine war.
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