Ken wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 8:45 pm
It seems that the Russians learned nothing from Chernobyl.
Prevailing winds blow to the east in Ukraine. So the fallout will drift right towards Russia if there is a reactor melt-down.
This seems pretty extremely high on the list of egregious actions by the Russians so far in this war.
Once again, this would appear to be pure Ukrainian propaganda. Russia has been
controlling the territory of the Zaporozhskaya nuclear power plant since February 28th. This does not appear to be disputed.
Meanwhile,
The spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, issued an official statement on Friday morning concerning the shootout and fire that had occurred at Ukraine’s Zaporozhskaya nuclear power plant earlier the same day.
“Last night, an attempt to carry out a horrible provocation was made by Kiev’s nationalist regime on the area surrounding the station,” he announced, claiming the Russian troops patrolling the territory had been attacked by a Ukrainian sabotage group.
According to the spokesman, the Ukrainian forces had attacked Russian soldiers at about 2am local time, opening heavy fire from the training facility next to the power station in order to “provoke a retaliatory strike on the building.”
The Russian patrol had neutralized the group’s firing points, but the saboteurs had then set fire to the training facility as they retreated, Konashenkov said. The blaze was put out by the Ukrainian State Emergency Service’s firefighters. “At the moment of provocation, no staff members were at the facility,” he noted.
In response to the Russian Ministry of Defense’s statement, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky denied the provocation claims and accused Russian forces of having staged the attack.
The mayor of the nearby town of Energodar had originally reported that the fire had been caused by Russian shelling, and that the blaze had engulfed the power plant itself, but the emergency services dismissed the latter claim.
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It was reported on Monday that the facility had been captured by Russian forces, and that staff were keeping operations going and monitoring radiation levels. The International Atomic Energy Agency has offered assurances that there has been no change in those levels in the wake of the incident.
Have to take what's coming out of Russia with a grain of salt obviously, but I was able to find corroboration of what the emergency services said about the situation.
Since Russia was in control of the area, and the power plant was operating normally, the scenario described in the Russian statement seems much more likely. Why would Russian troops suddenly attack a power plant in an area that they already had control of. Also, now that Russia has regained full control of the plant, the fire is out, and the plant remains fully operational.
Ken, I'll give you the same advice I gave Boot. When you see fake news like this, wait about 8 hours before you get your jingoist outrage engine fired up.
Not isolated to TV news: 
