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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no way to win friends and influence people
Fallout possible.
We’re not going to use anything, because our cities would be
toast also.
Reagan put in motion a plan to make our cities safe. It was
another Democrat success, that the plan was by and large
defeated, even though some benefits did come to fruition,
like those used in Israel.
Lindsey Graham inciting leaders of countries execution when we’re at DEFCON 2(EU) and 3(USA) with them. This idiot should be arrested.
“Looks like it’s office buildings on fire”
But the nuclear instructions are in there!
Turns out the fire was in an administration building, started by... someone. Whatever “news” is coming out of Ukraine is about 99.99% propaganda.
I just read about this reactor. Nothing will happen. Plus it was an admin building and fire is probably out by now.
And yes, fr is teeming with shills.
I’ve been noticing that too. Very strange, indeed.
Thanks. I hope that admin building didn’t have controls for
the reactors in it. Does sound better than they at first
reported it out as being like.
Just about anything coming out of that region is highly
suspect. The “Fog of War” is thick with this one.
People should note who are the ones most loudly siding with Ukraine.
I didn’t mean here on FR, but in public life.
Putin is responsible for the Ukraine invasion,, but the Biden gang enabled Putin by weakening the US, and is likely to use the war as an excuse to attack our rights and security.
You've got to be next level dumb to say something like that while the Russians are trying to "control Ukraine and pillage its sources and destroy it out of spite."
It’s really bad.
“not currently operating”
Don’t you dare bother us with any facts!
(Now, back to the Putin bashing orgy....)
I’m surprised you’re even still posting on this topic after boasting and ridiculing people for saying there would be an invasion. And you haven’t learned your lesson, as I understand your reference as it was recently stated by Russian propaganda. You’re still sucking that BS down like a chocolate shake!
“Fire at administrative offices.
Good, if it just paper that’s burning. So for now its just an HR problem.”
I worry that the critical diversity, equity and inclusion documents may have been lost.
;-)
There is a fourth explanation:
The nuclear plant is not operating....
I agree. Soros et al...
I think everyone knows my opinion of Soros. I think it’s a
damn shame he’s outrun the authorities in a number of nations.
By rights he should have spent some decent time in prison,
and his fortune liquidated to reimburse the nations he
tried to destroy.
The people of the Ukraine are behind their nation’s leadership. They are loyal to the nation.
It’s not for me to tell them they have a this or a that over
there, and I just don’t subscribe to the notion that Putin
had a right to invade the Ukraine, no matter the situation
on the ground.
Western nations, the people of the Ukraine, the Russian
speaking citizens of the Ukraine, the people of Russia,
and the civilian and military leaders don’t seem to be
to happy with Vlad.
The slow progress in the Ukraine seems to indicate they
aren’t trying their hardest. Some of the military
leaders are up against people they respect in the Ukraine.
I think the person who stated they were representing the
One World Government (or whatever her focus was) was
something she said because she thought it would be popular,
without her actually grasping the dynamics in play related
to that label.
You know my thoughts on the One World Odor.
Did those people install the current leader? I wouldn’t
doubt it. Has he mistreated the people of Ukraine? I see
no evidence of them thinking so.
It’s a mess.
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