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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Do you really believe the media?
Who cares what he thinks?
Rubio is a stinking globalist and RINO
Look at post 206 as an example...
There WERE several meltdowns, but only on FR, lol.
The Biden group has been funding this invasion since the first day, when pipelines were shut down. Funding of $100,000,000 a day oil has enabled this onslaught.
The blood of innocents is on Biden’s hands...
No leakage from nuke plant. Probably trying just to disable it from being used
Probably taking out a command and control location in the near proximity of the plant. The Russians vividly remember Chernobyl. Does anyone really think Putin would have attacked if there was any chance he could have compromised the nuclear material. There is zero chance he would have done that. This entire BS hysteria from last night was another planted disinformation narrative. Try as they might to get this particular misinformation up and running, the wheels feel off when they were forced to admit there was no radiation released.
It is so sad to watch so many on FR believe this propaganda that Russia is firing on reactor buildings. They want a war with Russia and are easily manipulated and gullible into wanting such a thing by liberals.
By firing on those buildings, Russia maybe trying to attack Ukraine in a nuclear way without nuclear bombs while saying...accident of war ...”what a shame!”. I wonder if the attacks would stop if NATO threatened to target with conventional cruise missiles a nuclear facility in Russia proper.
That's a really sad and warped perspective you have. You don't want anyone to see the suffering of war - the dead children, the screaming women, the burnt corpses of men incinerated in their vehicles, or the words of a son as his father dies in the ditch after some Russians opened fire on a civilian vehicle.
It is OK not to care about suffering for some people. I am not in that category. I have always opposed the taking of innocent lives. You don't seem to care, and don't want people to be "hysterical". You are probably one of those people that don't care about what happens in abortion clinics either.
Yeah, yeah. Riiight. Maccabees must have lost against the Post-Alexandrine Greek empire, then. American colonies stayed under the thumb of the British. Israel was crushed by those self-same British, as was India. Vietnam, America? Afghanistan, Russia? Never happened. You got the troops, you got the weapons, you win. Impossible otherwise./s “Or something” happens a lot. It’s happening now in Ukraine.
“There is no indication Putin attacked this nuclear site.”
Of course not. He was nowhere near it. He was in Moscow, glaring at his trusted advisers from across a 10-meter-long table, wondering which one has betrayed him.
There is plenty of indication that Russian troops attacked it, and set fire to a building that fortunately was just an administrative office.
This is the same Graham idiot who set his cell phone on fire in an ad cuz he thought he could beat trump in the 2016 SC primary.
Graham is among the worst of RINO neocon globalists. Zalensky and Putin and Graham all need to be removed from power.
You know the truth is that an administrative building was attacked. That would be the truth and be sufficient. But someone had to make it even more terrible by announcing radiation was leaking all over the place. That was not true.
This is how WWIII will start. People spewing BS for some kind of propaganda war.
I don’t know but am sure it’s better than who would take over for Biden!
The Euromaidan snipers firing into their own protestors from the Ukrainia hotel. The utterly horrific Odessa massacre. The eight years of varying hot and cold war against the LPR and DPR republics. The children memorialised in the Alley of Angels.
If one were casting about for someone to blame for all this death and horror - my money would be on Obama. The same man that created & armed ISIS, and set it to ravage Syria.
He did this for the same reason that he backed the Ukrainean coup - to control who Europe buys its energy from.
That's the real war that humanity has been waging against itself. For decades.
Britain suffered ~186,000 casualities per year in WW1. We appropriately commemorate this with red poppies, tear-jerking stories such as "The Testament of Youth", and so on.
But now we (in Britain) inflict 200,000+ casualities a year to ourselves, and nobody even notices. No ground changes hands - just day after day of senseless murder, with no end in sight.
For someone who professes to care about suffering so much, you’re remarkably sanguine about the pain the Russian soldiers inside the 56 tanks must have felt when the Ukrainians destroyed them. To be burnt alive inside a tin coffin must have been excruciating. Yet you express absolutely no sympathy for those men, only for the Ukrainians, who obviously aren’t free of cruelty either judging by the way they dispatched their enemy and then gloated about it on social media.
I suggest you stop paying attention to the Ukrainian fairy tales the media is doling out daily and instead do your own research about what’s really happening in an area that’s 7000 miles away. You obviously are a person who is overly emotional and easily manipulated, and someone like that definitely shouldn’t be engaging in the sordid and ghoulish realities of war.
Agree. At this point, the Biden gang is hurting its citizens more harm than Putin is hurting us IMO, but Putin has some options, like taking actions that lead to a world war, that would be even worse.
Having the current admin, with Biden and Kamala, is like havng a "doctor" with a phony medical degree perform heart surgery.
These Putin trolls are laughable. Combat around a nuclear power plant with anything more than light arms is insanity. One malfunction and...
If the intent was to cut off power, take out the lines leading out from the plant. Could be done miles (or KM) away. Pick your spots - less risk to your own troops, too.
You’re comparing war fatalities with abortion?
In modern war civilians casualties are difficult to avoid.
People are murdering their own babies!
Do you see a difference?
I have no doubt that the abortion numbers, since this invasion started, far exceed the deaths of combatants and non-combatants in this war.
Read 2 Kings, and see how God allowed the power and greed of idolatrous nations to take down disobedient Israel, and then Judah.
But with Klaus Schwab, its basically, Let me show you how to rid the world of 6 1/2 billion ‘usless eaters’. That man, and others like Soroz are a huge reason our country (and otgers) are being systematically ‘attacked’.
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