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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Don't be surprised if the Oligarch's make that happen soon, for the mess Putin's created.
The only question is: will whoever follows Putin be worse? I'm thinking they will and it's going to be even more brutal.
Russians blowing up nuclear plants upwind of Russia now? No reason to doubt this disinformation. Putin is also stashing yellow cake uranium under Ukrainian orphanages, or so I’ve heard it was reported.
Market was trying to recover and immediately dumped
Ukraine Foreign Minister: if it blows up it will be 10 times larger than Chernobyl
They might want to hurry up, because if it doesn't happen soon, it never will.
Enerhodar sounds like a location in Middle Earth.
Right now, only objective Russian military could have is to cut off electric power to large swaths of Ukraine. That makes it more difficult to resist the invaders.
Thank you, I needed a good laugh.
What have we been telling them in that case? No, absolutely not, and not a chance should have been the answers.
“Gentlemen, it has been a privilege playing with you tonight.”
“ What can go wrong??”
The libtards will demand that all US nuclear power plants will have to shutdown immediately.
I totally agree but you forgot to call out the eurotrash leaders like Macron, Boris Johnson, and SGT. Scholz.
“… ‘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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Hmmmm…. What would happen in the US if we released many thousands of felons from our prisons and gave them AK47s along with ammunition?
Hey I’ve got my N95 mask
I’m good to go, right?
Huns? Oh please stop with the atrocious WWI reference, bloodthirsty warmonger.
Athletic gear. They probably aren’t Russian regulars. All outlaws in the western hemisphere are probably headed to Ukraine for all the freebie weapons give away free for all going on thanks to the western world. Putin needs to be stopped but we are also complicit in this escalation.
F warmongers, go to hell where you belong
Belarus got hit pretty hard with the radiation from Chernobyl.
Don't be surprised if the Oligarch's make that happen soon, for the mess Putin's created.
You both sound like schoolgirls smoking in the bathroom.
Sometimes reality is so disconcerting that people can't even admit it is happening. You may be in that situation.
What do you think is fake about the videos presented by the Daily Mail? Have you even watched them?
Right. An imminent nuclear disaster is one way to get the world interested in Ukraine’s plight. Personally, I think if there was a chance that triggering a meltdown of their own plant and blaming it on the Russians would trigger international military intervention, Ukraine would take it.
"If it blows up, it will be 10 times larger than Chornobyl. Russians must immediately ceasefire, allow firefighters, and establish a security zone!" warns Ukraine's FM Kuleba, after Russian troops allegedly targeted Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia region pic.twitter.com/OlB1WUmTAg— TRT World Now (@TRTWorldNow) March 4, 2022
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