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.
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