Posted on 08/09/2024 8:35:23 AM PDT by Alter Kaker
Having gained a foothold in Russia’s southwestern Kursk region in the past few days, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are now fast approaching the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Kurchatov, the city’s mayor Igor Korpunkov warned on Friday.
Reporting that fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops was taking place “a few dozen kilometres” from the city of Kurchatov, Korpunkov sought to assure residents that all services and business in the city were operating “normally” and urged them not to panic.
“The enemy is not only employing military weapons against us, but also so-called ‘psychological special forces’. Its goal is to sow panic among the population, to create an uncontrollable situation and chaos,” Korpunkov wrote.
Pro-Russian military Telegram channel Military Informant reported that an advanced detachment of the AFU had reached the village of Kromskie Byki, approximately 30 kilometres from the plant. The Kursk Nuclear Power Station is one of the largest atomic power facilities in Russia and supplies electricity to the entire federal district, which includes 18 regions.
According to Military Informant, Kromskie Byki is just 15 kilometres away from the Kursk-Lgov-Rylsk highway, control of which could enable the AFU to advance eastward towards Kurchatov.
On Wednesday, the Russian National Guard announced that additional security forces had been deployed to protect the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant from “sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the AFU in the Kursk and Belgorod regions.”
The is ZERO chance of Russia allowing Ukraine to hold any ground in the Kursk region, let alone take a nuclear power.
The Ukrainians are going to die.
That you're cheerleading for this is more proof of what delusional fool you are.
We're literally having Ukraine fight to the last Ukrainian in a proxy war they can't win.
Ultimately, all this will result in is Russia taking more of Ukraine and creating as buffer zone on its border.
“Didn’t Putin say the Ukrainians had been routed two days ago? oh well”
pooty lies. pooty is evil
Given the look on Pooty’s face at that briefing on the Ukies’ incursion, it may be that the Ukies have figured out a way to take out Russian generals without having to assassinate them deep in Russia...
Will the Israelis take note?
That plant powers a LOT of important Russian assets. If the Ukies could hold it, that’d be a significant problem for Russia.
However, the chances the Ukies can grab it are very low...
In that area, Russia can pound the crap out of the Ukies with air power. A few civilians lost will just be good propaganda.
If the Ukrainians get close to the Kursk II site, they can destroy it without any danger to the operating (or the one shutdown) Kursk reactors. They can alternatively place charges and hold the replacement site hostage. No need to use missiles on a site so close to the operating Kursk reactors which are going to be completely shutdown in the next several years anyway.
Depends on the wind. A lot closer to Kiev.
I don’t think anyone would do that on purpose.
Correction: Two of the four Kursk reactors have already been shut down, not just one. The second was shut down in January of this year.
Ukraine has proven superior in areana of psychological operations. The 4th POG is an excellent model used to train them. The public affairs, keyboard warrior operations, and other use of calling Russian civilians stating they were Russian authorities caused a massive civilian evacuation making it difficult for Russian reinforcements to arrive.
The use of scouts operating up to 40km in front of AFU mech inf helped to push out an extended enclave free from ambush for the first 48 hours.
Russia reinforced the nuke plant before an actual coordinated mass arrival of a superior force, which has now slowed the attack.
Speed was needed to reach the power plant. An excellent plan. A bridge too far, a battle of the buldge, and the charge of the lite brigade all come to mind. But this is Lee’s debacle, a Picketts’s Charge, that breaks the back of the AFU.
We will see more attacks on a scale more akin to terrorism as Ukraine slowly dies. Russia has prepared over 200,000 soldiers with “pacification” homeland training to deal with small nature incidents where a school, or amall town, or concert is taken over to embrass Moscow.
Unfortunately for Ukraine, the Russians remember the 2000s Chechnya style civilan attacks; they have lived it and they are preparring for more of it throughout Russia.
Ukraine cannot negotiate. They duped the Chinese at the very moment they staged this attack. They have NATO equip has never had a redline, or NATO governments will lie and are never to be trusted. There cannot be negotiations beyond staring one another down at the table.
Only the Pentagon and US President can negotiate for their NAZI Fanatical partners in Ukraine. We are seeing signs of issues more pressing than the Ukraine war for Washington.
The prisoner swap, Terhan/Jerusalem, and of course Russian natural resources, e.g., uranium, gas, oil, titanium, silver, etc.
Washington is who Moscow is fighting.
Moscow is repudiating Joe & Hunters corruption, and the globalist elite scourge in t/his wake.
Putin is delivering a victory for Trump, and removing the obligation of being owned by the West for a future Ukraine absolved of debt to the west.
That’s way we have nutron shells for tanks and artillery. Pinpoint radiation kills in 72-96 hours, and buildings can be reoccupied in as little as 6 weeks. The radiation passes thru everything and no much radiation life remains.
These shells would render combatants too sick within 36 hours to fight.
Its an option.
The Russians developed them, we stole it.
There is still the problem that, at present, the Ukrainian forces in Kursk are too dispersed to make nukes effective. Nukes are designed for concentrated forces.
Clicked this thread just to see if the usuals would give their accustomed stupid comments and images. Never fails.
You were very funny, but we all remember you were also the NAZI soldier, who always hid behind a potted plant.
When you are invaded, most take that personally.
Finland also had no chance to win the second winter war. Yet they survived. Bet that bothers your boss.
Still, I doubt the counter attack was about a “drive to Moscow”, no matter what the gamers are saying. It has disrupted the resources of the Russian forces and forced them to redeploy assets while dealing with a lot of refugees. So Ukraine has disrupted a current Russian offensive, scored a political “point”, and is most likely tearing up infrastructure like roads, rail, and gas lines.
If they are smart, you fade back over the border before the next hit.
In other words this looks like a classic raid if in larger scale. But we shall see.
Your narrative is laughable.
Our invasion of Afghanistan was totally justified.
Enough of the lies and ridiculous narratives.
If China or Russia fomented an illegal coup in Mexico, trained, funded and armed a 600,000 man Mexican army, what would we do? WE’D INVADE, justifiably so.
We stole the neutron bomb from Russia?
“The conception of neutron bombs is generally credited to Samuel T. Cohen of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who developed the concept in 1958. Initial development was carried out as part of projects Dove and Starling, and an early device was tested underground in early 1962. Designs for a “weaponized” version were developed in 1963.”
“ERWs were first operationally deployed for anti-ballistic missiles (ABMs). In this role, the burst of neutrons would cause nearby warheads to undergo partial fission, preventing them from exploding properly.”
An artillery round fired at a building may not kill them inside, but using a nutron shell will flash a radiation wave which incapacitates within 18 hours, and kills within 72-96 hours. Their best use is against bunkers or small targets. Fire a salvo along a tree line, and let the radiation do the rest.
It is a nasty weapon. My unit was was given a training mission where we jumped into Country Green and we had to reach a bridge. We were told our unit was shelled by neutron rounds. The war game guys attached to us randomly selected one or two guys to get sick, radiation burns, or started keeping a time sheet on us. Our unit kept moving o our objective, but the controllers kept removing people from our unit. They explained how the radiation affected individuals. By 72 hours we were told you are now too sick to continue and essentially are dying a horrible death from radiation. It was supposed to prepare us to understand how far people could last, and how far we are estimated to be combat effective. Depressing to know you have a certain amount of time between sickness and becoming immobilized before death. Given the information allowed those still effective to expedite the mission before it happens. Seeing pictures of animals with their death timeline showed how their bodies ability reduced one by one some faster, slower.
The real information value was friendly forces could repell a force and without any special clothing or protection, humans could reoccuply these buildings not destroyed but radiated. Works on tanks.
Russia could do this inside Russia with even getting the Climate clowns upset because it is only a couple month Chernoble effect.
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