Ukraine is expected to launch a large-scale attack on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) overnight, a senior Russian atomic energy industry official warned late on Tuesday. Kiev may also strike the plant with a missile stuffed with radioactive waste, he added.
The warning was voiced by Renat Karchaa, a senior aide to the head of Rosenergoatom, a subsidiary to Russia’s state-owned atomic energy giant Rosatom. The official cited intelligence data received by the industry.
“On July 5, literally overnight, while it’s still dark, Ukrainian forces will attempt an attack on the Zaporozhye plant with long-range high-precision munitions, as well as suicide drones,” he told Rossiya 24 TV channel.
Kiev is also expected to attempt a strike on the plant with a heavy, Soviet-made Tochka-U tactical ballistic missile, Karchaa went on. The munition has been filled with radioactive waste collected from the South-Ukrainian nuclear power plant, the official claimed.
While Karchaa did not elaborate, the apparent goal of the secondary attack is to cause an uptick in radioactivity readings in the region should the main launch fail to damage the facility enough to cause the release of hazardous materials into the air.
Christ almighty, these nutjobs might actually try and do it. If what Karchaa says is true, then they’ll send a dirty bomb inside a cruise missile, which would guarantee radioactive emissions (apparently since the fuel rods were long since cold, there was no real danger of a conventional attack causing an actual radioactive disaster). What do they want from this? Actual NATO intervention? Nothing good can come from such a disaster.
Huh. USA isn’t a reliable narrator on the subject but c’mon, Russia is reaaaaally not a truthful entity. When in history has something not been full of lies from thosw fascists? Yeltsin days?
Which is why I made sure to include:
In any case, when it comes specifically to this conflict, time and again Western sources have been shown to be utterly delusional, whereas Russian ones have been far more sober (sometimes to the point of becoming delusional again, such as when before the offensive some Russian telegrams were spelling doom and gloom, expecting the Ukrainians to roll into Moscow any day). Clearly this nuclear disaster hasn’t happened (as of yet anyway, and hopefully will remain so), but it was worth bringing it to attention so people could critically engage with it.
I thought this was the point of the World News community in this particular instance: to engage seriously with news, whatever their source, and thus be able to have a more complete look on world affairs (ironically far less biased than the one from those that obsess non-stop about “news bias”). If you don’t want to engage with Russian sources that are places who make a point of ignoring them.
If what they say is a good addition indeed.
I’m not criticizing you and I don’t see relevance with the point of the last paragraph. My comment was also engaging with this source. It’s just a comment. It doesn’t say that this shouldn’t be here.
Russia speaks like Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf during the invasion of Iraq. Tanks rolling in the background and denying what’s happening.
USA & Ukraine has a lot of bullshit of course. Their aim seems to be more on manipulating the morale and support.
(Although some of the comments seem to forget the healthy skepticism. Russia is as anti-communist as USA, so the bandwagoning is really weird)
Pardon me, I’m a bit overly touchy with people dismissing sources out of hand. You’re right, your comment was not at all out of place, though I disagree with it not on the grounds of “liking Russia” or “liking it’s government”, per se, which is clearly not at all communist, but on the grounds of “it is a gain for the Third World if the US loses”, as well as the simple fact of the reality on the ground showing that time and again US/Ukrainian claims have been proven false (not always, as in Kharkov), and not grounded in materialism (such as the shell amount disparity, which is insurmountable).
It’s fine for the US to lose although Russia can’t get away from its actions