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.
I’ll often scroll MSM thumbnails on youtube to get a gist of what media is actively talking about, media has been running hard the narrative that Russia was about to attack the plant. Knowing that media has lied about Russia attacking things they didn’t before (pipeline, the bridge, etc.) I made an assumption that Ukraine was about to attack it, and Russia was going to get the blame. This sells me on the idea.
Apparently Ukraine is saying they have Intel that Russia has planted explosives on the plant and they’re planning to bomb it themselves and then blame Ukraine.
Didn’t the US say that “Russia” attacking the plant (or using nukes) was the “red line” that they would consider to be an attack on NATO? It seems like this would be done by the Ukrainian hardliners (mainly neo-nazis) who find negotiation unacceptable but know that they can’t win without other countries joining in directly.
They say the radiation would be blown through Novorossiya and Russia since the wind’s blowing east rn.
How do you even retaliate against something like this? What kind of red line is being crossed by literally irradiating enemy territory? Is Kiev gonna be nuked or something?
Well it’s an act of radiological terror. A war crime.
How they retaliate would be up to them. They likely wouldn’t use nukes (America’s policy for a response to a radiological attack on US soil by contrast would likely be a nuclear weapon if done by a nation state) but could do anything.
The fucking ukronazis will start WW3 and kill us all and those fucking libs are like that.
Also lemmy works like complete shit ever since the reddshit flowed in it, i can’t even load a post 3/4th of the time.
It’s kind of absurd how easy this is for them, they telegraph their war crimes, loudly and proudly, but just say “Russia did it” and western public eats it up. Russia apparently loves blowing up their own stuff and territory they already control apparently, because they’re Voldemorts.
I said I hope the reactor doesn’t get blown up and I got downvoted lmao
Yeah i seen that, they are completely crazy.
Also i can’t even vote now, lemmy works so bad even the votes can’t load for me.
Jesus Christ, fucking yanquis and Ukronazis, this is something else completely, what’s worse is that this fucking liberals will think Russia did it. Yes, Russia is bombing a nuclear plant and letting all of their radioactive wind to to them because they’re stupid. I can’t wait for the fall of the empire.
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:
If what Karchaa says is true
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
I smell a large dose of misinformation.
I smell liberal brainrot.
