Buildings at Europe's biggest nuclear power plant are ON FIRE after being attacked by Russian tanks fire sparking fears of radiation disaster: Livestreamed footage shows explosions as heavy weapons target the facility in southern Ukraine

UK Daily Mail ^ | 03/03/2022 | Kaya Terry

[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.

[Drew68]

If Putin blows up a nuclear plant and irradiates half of Europe I have to assume that is an Article 5 violation and Russia get cooked.

And Europe gets cooked.

And we get cooked.

[SE Mom]

This should be in breaking news.

[epluribus_2]

and Mdms Merkel and Clinton sit in a bar in Arlington drinking straight Absolute both whining how this crisis could have been all theirs, and wouldn’t have let it go to waste.

[xp38]

or meltdown news

[WMarshal]

"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."

I think that was obvious sarcasm entropy12.

[gitmo]

Sounds like a good reason for coal-fired plants.

[lodi90]

Putin: “But the danger of nukes in Ukraine!”

also Putin: blows up a nuke in Ukraine

---

People will be along shortly to defend Putin. The Ukrainians should have surrendered blah, blah, blah.

[AmericanInTokyo]

“Putin is a genius”. / sarc

[alrea]

And this is what Putin does to a nuke plant less than a days drive from Moscow

It was interesting that Putin had the Red Army take Chernobyl which is closer to Russia. Maybe they planned to let this one burn and kill.

[NonValueAdded]

ARE THEY INSANE??? Is Pooty-Poot trying to goad us into WWIII? Never have I felt like a nuclear war was possible since the early 60’s.

[Williams]

So now the jackasses here think Russian conscription troops rampaging through Ukraine, because Putin is pissed and said to start destroying more infrastructure - are like little Einsteins who of course won’t do anything stupid.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Is this news even accurate, surely they aren’t that stupid.

[Vaden]

Is Vlad going to irradiate the entire country now to make sure no one gets out alive?

[Pilgrim's Progress]

MadPutin decided that if cancer is going to take him out, he is taking the rest of the world without him. What good is the world without him . . .

[alrea]

Is Pelosi shaking her fists with glee over what globalists and liberals have done in Ukraine?

[SE Mom]

https://mobile.twitter.com/marcorubio

Marco Rubio
@marcorubio
·
1m
Ukrainian TV is reporting that a reactor is on fire at #Zaporizhzhia but that it is not currently operating

But it does have nuclear fuel inside

[lodi90]

LOL The Ukrainians are fighting to save their country. Not make it a nuclear waste dump. Anyway, Putin already has track record on this. This is the second nuclear site he has attacked.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Technically this means that Putler went nuclear, so now we can start nuking Russia!!

[Houserino]

Reminding me a lot of the movie Tenet.

[mmichaels1970]

I agree with just about everything you said. I still blame the guy conducting the invasion, air assault, and advancing tank battalions.

But your logic is similar to the story of the guy who slaps his wife. Then says “NOW look what you made me do”. I will not blame the non-invading forces for “killing every Ukrainian or taking them prisoner”. I will blame the side that actually does it.

I will blame Russia. I will blame that scum-bag KGB pinko named Vladimir Putin.

I hope the Ukrainians humiliate him in an historical manner.