In the current situation nobody can rule anything out at the moment , including putin going nuclear or Nato getting involved ,they already said they and the US were providing the Ukrainian military with real time intelligence , despite Putins threats and NATO saying they will only defend Nato countries
Imagine if WW3 was started because the Russians knocked Pornhub offline.
Until someone more knowledgeable comes along I'll say it's not impossible, as the problem has happened before if only briefly:
[There might have been] an extraordinarily short burst of mutual wiping out of first-line equipment, leaving the armies dependent on quite simple weapons—a return to an earlier phase of warfare. We had that in 1914: all the sides had gone to war with stocks quite inadequate for the scale of the fighting that took place, and there was then the famous “winter pause” which was partly to lick their wounds. … and very much to gear up the shell factories. Because the inventory of weapons is so much larger [it would have been] a pause for the replacement of almost everything: tanks, aircraft, missiles, missile launchers, armoured vehicles of all sorts. … Sir John Keegan, military historian.
(WAR, Gwynne Dyer)
What difference sanctions make will, I suppose, depend on how much foreign currency is required and where the raw materials are.
Apparently the fire is in an administrative building. From the camera angle and reports on Twitter.
They got 200 of the Netherlands last week
Who in their right mind has live ammunition being fired at a huge nuclear power facility.
What the fcuk is going on with the Power plant. Things are getting lit up all over the place.
This is absolutely mad. Who is firing an auto Canon at a nuclear plant!!
Yes but is that where the AZ 5 button is housed
Just shows Putin really does not give a **** about any collateral damage having troops go in heavy near nuclear plants.
"It's a fire in the administrative building, the radiation levels are all within normal parameters. Perfectly normal."
The Ukrainians were making claims that the Russian maps are out of date. Maybe they don't realise it's there...or what it is.
They’re firing what looks like some kind missiles now - big flashes.
Correct, 2 absolutely abysmal choices.
Number 3 is that the west has some agents on the Russian side that get the wheels in motion to take him out quickly. That would be most preferable!
Tell me you're not talking about the nuclear power plant.
Why are the Russians going anywhere near those facilities? Surely of all places to give a wide berth unless and until the whole country is 'pacified'...
Been a couple of very large explosions.
Also, the parked cars are clearly not happy.
this is the first time in history a war has been fought over a nuclear power plant, and 75k people are watching, crazy, Darwin Award goes to those soldiers shooting missiles....
Anyone know if this is one of the more modern plants? If hit it should technically go into a shutdown mode rather than 1986 all over again.
Defainitly fired two tank shell or missile. When it hit all the car alarms went off.
This may not go well. The Russians don't care about the future.
To cripple infrastructure I'd imagine. Many of these reactors will be forced to go offline if combat continues in and around the plants and if staff are in danger.
Be grand.
These wars have been going on for years.
You have just been insulated until now.
Looks like it's getting shelled ,
Squeaky bum time
the Russians have made it there goal to destroy powerplants so far, id be surprised if they didnt f&c& it up and destroy a nuclear plant
Yup. There were several bright flashes in the sky on the camera feed and steam or smoke from both the left and right, then it died back.
Hard to make out what’s going on.
With what’s app and social media I find the excuse Russians don’t know what’s going on absolute BS.
in Putins mind- decommunization of Ukraine means de-nuclearization of Ukraine, means destroy their plants
All I know the is a huge convoy waiting to get in going by the headlights of the vehicles behind.
Its not the first time in History that one country has invaded another managed to hold it for awhile, ( plenty of examples in recent times) only to get kicked out again. Here we have one Country ( Russia ) who has been planning this invasion for years, and after a huge military build up, launched a massive attack, on a relatively unprepared Ukraine. now we have the situation where the Russians are getting the upper hand ( but still behind schedule ) It still has some time to run to end game, After that, the fight back and resistance begins. Correspondingly the economical assault on Russia will have ramped up, and be hitting hard. So them we will see how it goes.... a slow Afghanistan style grinding down of Russian forces, with the clock running against Putin. More repressive laws on his own people to control them, as their lives become increasingly more difficult.
Slava Ukraine !!!
Footage from other sources on twitter if you search Zaporizhzhia
They are literally shelling a nuclear power plant and a huge one at that. It has 6 x VVER pressurised water reactors and 6,000 Megawatts of power plant, as well as high risks of stored fuel and spent fuel on site.
This is absolute madness !
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