Posted on 03/03/2022 4:28:03 PM PST by DFG
A fire has been seen at a nuclear power plant in Ukraine after tanks opened fire with heavy weapons at the facility, footage in the early hours of Friday morning showed.
A live feed from the Zaporizhzhia station showed flames at the site in the east of country, having earlier showed tanks firing at buildings - sparking fears of a radiation disaster in the nation currently being invaded by Russian forces.
Dmytro Orlov, the mayor of the nearby town of Energodar, confirmed the blaze in an online post. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is the largest of its kind in Europe.
'As a result of continuous enemy shelling of buildings and units of the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is on fire,' Orlov said on his Telegram channel, citing what he called a threat to world security.
Earlier, Ukrainian authorities reported Russian troops were stepping up efforts to seize the plant and had entered the town with tanks.
The shocking footage came after Ukrainian civilians defied Russian troops for a second day running in a bid to protect the nuclear plant. They were shown setting up make-shift road blocks in an attempt to block the road to the facility.
Both the Ukrainian state atomic energy company and Orlov said troops were nearing Zaporizhzhia. Officials said loud shots were heard in the city late Thursday.
'Many young men in athletic clothes and armed with Kalashnikov have come into the city. They are breaking down door and trying to get into the apartments of local residents,' the statement from Energoatom said.
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I remember that episode well..why is it that The Simpsons were right about EVERYTHING..EVERYTHING!
And the NGOs that Putin mentioned.
There’s absolutely no context given in that video. Anyone can say anything on the internet. Doesn’t mean it’s true.
lol +1
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1499575352426958848?cxt=HHwWgMC4tdD1x88pAAAA
Lindsey Graham
@LindseyGrahamSC
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Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?
The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out.
You would be doing your country - and the world - a great service.
Lindsey Graham
@LindseyGrahamSC
The only people who can fix this are the Russian people.
Easy to say, hard to do.
Unless you want to live in darkness for the rest of your life, be isolated from the rest of the world in abject poverty, and live in darkness you need to step up to the plate.
8:39 PM · Mar 3, 2022
That already happened. Yesterday at the UN the Russian Ambassador to the UN said Trump was the legitimate US President and he was "overthrown".
I don't believe you even watched the video. What more "context" do you need? Do you believe that the screaming is un-true?
and any downwind contamination will be a crime... right???
Ha, I just saw Lindsey openly call for the assassination of Putin too. I don’t like Putin, but US politicians (and some talk show hosts) need to show some restraint and not openly call for a world leader to be killed.
I can only imagine the frothing at the mouth if a politician in Russia called for Biden’s assassination.
“What would happen in the US if we released many thousands of felons from our prisons and gave them AK47s along with ammunition?”
You’d have Obama’s “Civilian Army, as equally well-armed as our US military”.
I watched it, which is why I can unequivocally state that there is no context given. Try posting something from a reputable news source that is actually part of a news story about this “bombing,” and not a snippet of a video from Reddit, FFS.
what kind of sociopath would bomb a nuke plant? There are only 3 explanations:
(1) Putin is crazy. In which case he needs to be neutralized ASAP.
(2) Putin wants the world to think he is crazy and will stop at nothing to achieve his objective. Not as bad as 1, but somebody needs to lay down some red lines before he crosses more.
(3) Putin sees disabling the nuke plant as a strategic objective (cut power to enemy). Again we need some red lines. There are obviously many safer ways to achieve these objectives.
At this point Putin is entering the terrorist zone, and endangering millions who live outside the war zone.
Of it actually happens its even more likely to go nuclear. They don’t think things through
What Graham just did is give the green light that in the future, ANY Republican who wins the White House..some commie lib can go on TV and call for someone to take the President out, literally, and someone will go ahead and give it a try..Im no fan of Putin but to openly call for someone to assassinate him is ridiculous
Please God, let somebody end this b*astard soon...
Putin’s Crusaders are doing what they have to do to eliminate graft and corruption in Ukraine. Bless their hearts.
I think the context you are missing is that the video was posted as a response to someone else's claims.
The video shows the toll on civilians of bombing and shelling non-military targets.
The thread you are reading is not about any "bombing" but it is about some stray fire near a nuclear power plant, in case you hadn't noticed.
As to the "reputable news source" you must be one of those people who wants to hear some talking head in a studio at some fake news outfit in New York City tell you what to think. You can learn much more by looking at actual video from inside Ukraine.
Trump said it best, we are led by very stupid people.
I’m starting to think that all that Russia, Russia, Russia stuff wasn’t such a great idea.
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