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Russian forces 'fire rockets at SECOND nuclear facility': Warning of 'large-scale ecological disaster' as missiles hammer Kharkiv physics institute with atomic reactor inside... two days after attack on Zaporizhzhia power plant
UK Daily Mail ^ | March 06 2022 | CHAY QUINN

Posted on 03/06/2022 7:00:30 AM PST by knighthawk

Russian forces are firing rockets at a physics institute in the city of Kharkiv that contains nuclear material and a reactor which could lead to a 'large-scale ecological disaster' if hit, according to Ukraine's national security service.

The service said on Facebook on Sunday that the Russians were firing at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology from Grad launchers. Missiles fired from Grad launchers do not have precise targeting, raising concern that one could damage the reactor and release deadly radiation across Europe.

The science institute houses the Neutron Source nuclear research facility and contains 37 nuclear fuel cells in its core, according Ukrainian foreign minister Emine Dzheppar.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: again; kharkiv; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; russia; russianaggression; ukraine; zot; zottherussiantrolls
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To: knighthawk

My 2 cents. The Russians took fire from an office at the first nuclear plant and returned fire. This action may have started a small blaze inside the office building which never endangered the nuclear core or power generation facility. A similar event took place at the second plant. Both sides have reason to lie. I suspect that US spy sats and or spy plane overflights can or would detect higher than normal radiation levels if there was damage to either nuclear core.


21 posted on 03/06/2022 7:19:11 AM PST by The Louiswu (The times they are a changin. )
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To: BenLurkin
What wassn't true? Russia clearly attacked the nuclear facility. There was not a major leak. Only one of the nuclear reactors was functioning.

Gravitas LIVE with Palki | Nuclear disaster averted in Ukraine | Europe's biggest plant attacked

22 posted on 03/06/2022 7:21:48 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: knighthawk

This will turn out to be disinformation, once again, like the first one.

Watch.


23 posted on 03/06/2022 7:25:36 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally. The war is on Biden and Obama.)
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To: Westbrook

exactly

i dont get it


24 posted on 03/06/2022 7:25:47 AM PST by Hammerhead
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To: Wilhelm Tell
Putin must be at a Hitler level of craziness.

If he is, and I am not arguing that he is not... the entire world is in great peril. I wonder if defending this Soros installed corrupt regime has been worth the risk. It is strange that for decades no one lifted a finger as the Russians invaded and installed puppet regimes in former USSR satellites. Now to preserve the most corrupt of them all we are willing to push a possibly deraigned Putin to the point where he may unleash the largest nuclear arsenal in history. Why?

My wife and I live in community that has a lot of Russian and Ukrainian fairly recent arrivals. They are mostly very good people, and they are impossible for the unfamiliar to differentiate. Very few are fond of either Putin or the corrupt regime that our leaders are risking all of our lives for. Only their young who are easily swayed by MSM propaganda believe that this is a good idea.

25 posted on 03/06/2022 7:28:01 AM PST by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: The Louiswu

Hmmm. Fire in an office building.

Burning inconvenient documents?


26 posted on 03/06/2022 7:29:30 AM PST by Fresh Wind (We are living in 1984. We have always been living in 1984.)
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To: Sarcazmo

“But yeah, who would make a mess like this in their own back yard?”

Everybody thinks of war as precise. The Gulf War gave everyone the idea that war was a bunch of guys sitting at terminals directing Lazer bombs at targets as small as rain barrels. But the Russian military not only has conscripts, it also has convicts in it. Some of these people will have mental problems. You can drop them into a uniform and instruct them to follow orders, but what they do when there isn’t an officer standing in front of them is probably a deck of options where the options are all wild cards. Imagine you have a guy manning a howitzer who has a huge passive-aggressive problem. He gets a set of coordinates to fire on with specific instructions NOT to fire two degrees to the left of those coordinates. Nobody is going to tie a disaster down to him and here’s his chance to do something BIG that nobody can stop. You might say nobody in their right mind would do something like that, but convicts are not noted for making good decisions.

Even if everyone involved as the best of intentions for their side, once a war starts bad things will happen. There’s no stopping it.

Probably the best thing that could happen would be if Ukraine shut down all reactors. But that’s unlikely as the power outage would leave people freezing in the dark...aways a bad thing for politicians. Notice that the power appears to be on all over the country. Neither side wants people they will rule over after the war freezing in the dark.


27 posted on 03/06/2022 7:30:20 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry.)
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To: knighthawk

more wartime propaganda I’m sure.

Don’t be fooled, all this stuff is coming from those who brought us Russian Collusion, all the anti-Trump lies, and hoaxes, hundreds of “hate-crime” hoaxes, the Russian bounty on American GIs in Afghanistan hoax. What makes anyone think that they are telling anything approaching the truth now?


28 posted on 03/06/2022 7:31:05 AM PST by euram
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To: DannyTN
The Russians did indeed attack the facility, and did indeed set an office building on fire (which was being held by brave Ukrainian defenders.)

But the report that they shelled the power plant — as though seeking to damage the reactors — turned out to be incorrect.

29 posted on 03/06/2022 7:31:12 AM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: DannyTN

they did not...there wasn’t ANY leak. Trust me, you are not gonna damage a nuclear reactor firing small arms...there was a small fire at an office building that had NOTHING to do with the generating side of that plant. Geez..


30 posted on 03/06/2022 7:33:30 AM PST by basalt
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To: 2banana

Yeah - I’m going to wait for independent verification of this “story”.

The fact that they have to resort to inflammatory scary words “ECOLOGICAL NUCLEAR DISASTER” lends credence to a fake news story.


31 posted on 03/06/2022 7:34:25 AM PST by Skywise
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To: imabadboy99
Hopefully Russia has an ICBM targeted on wherever he is, at all times.
32 posted on 03/06/2022 7:34:40 AM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: DannyTN

Because the Ukrainians had snipers on the towers…


33 posted on 03/06/2022 7:35:35 AM PST by Skywise
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To: knighthawk

From 2014:

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Ukraine-unveils-new-nuclear-research-facility-8121401.html

Guess who’s involved with this and kicking in millions for it’s construction?

Yep. It’s the good ol’ USA.


34 posted on 03/06/2022 7:35:59 AM PST by Fresh Wind (We are living in 1984. We have always been living in 1984.)
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To: knighthawk

These are not Chernobyl style reactors. They have containment buildings which are like hardened bunkers, and most likely have already been safely shut down. The Russians are targeting these plants to cut off power to the country.


35 posted on 03/06/2022 7:36:43 AM PST by throwthebumsout
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To: throwthebumsout

This one is not a nuclear power plant.


36 posted on 03/06/2022 7:39:32 AM PST by Fresh Wind (We are living in 1984. We have always been living in 1984.)
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To: imabadboy99

Soros gives to all parties and governments. You would be hard pressed to find anyone that isn’t associated, in some manner with him.


37 posted on 03/06/2022 7:42:47 AM PST by M_Continuum
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To: knighthawk

daily mail is always good for a laugh.
that’s some fine globalist propaganda.
after Zelensky finishes consolidating his bank accts of ill-gotten gains, he should focus on saving the lives of Ukranians by negotiating some deal assuming he still has some chance of keeping something that resembles statehood.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-threatens-ukraine-loss-statehood


38 posted on 03/06/2022 7:50:59 AM PST by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: PGR88

Yes. My Ukrainian friend said last week that his biggest fear is friendly fire self sabotage to make it look like Russians did it, which would start ww3. These “nuclear facilities” seem very carefully hit if you know what I mean.


39 posted on 03/06/2022 7:54:20 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: janetjanet998

There was video showing the deadly S400 being brought into Ukraine, so good luck flying around soon enough. By announcing all these weapons supplied from outside, its carte blanche for Putin to bomb away…at least keep this stuff private


40 posted on 03/06/2022 7:54:42 AM PST by ALX
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