Interference..
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-union-slovakia-elections-russian-interference-disinformation/
These are released daily on Twitter and https://www.minusrus.com/en
The orange numbers are losses over the past 24 hours.
I heard it at lunchtime. Think it was mostly a pre-election appearance (imo), must be running again. I hadn't been following who the European parliament candidates are. I suppose we could hear a lot more than usual from herself and Wallace on the run up to June 🤢.
Not to go into too much detail, but she was not any more forceful in condemnation of the invasion (to extent they touched on it during the discussion).
Just the usual tired schtick about how she had always condemned Putin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and is a peace campaigner. She merely sought to place war in proper context of an expansionist NATO, people slur her unfairly (as pro Putin or Russia) and it is a deflection tactic. Maybe it'll still fool some people though.
This guy is a bit SHOUTY ( all caps ) ..
https://twitter.com/FirstSquawk/status/1777053277261082630
So here is the not shouty version:
IAEA chief Grossi on x:
IAEA staff at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant confirmed at least three direct hits against main reactor containment structures, this cannot happen.
IAEA on x:
IAEA experts confirmed impact of drone attacks at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, including at one of its six reactors, one casualty reported
In the past I find Grossi seems to be on the hysterical side of things. The pland has been hit before and the reactors as far as I know are built to withstand a hell of alot more than Iranian moped drones?
I'm not clued in on this war that much but who is in control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant?
@ToweringPerformance Russians control it. As per Wikipedia:
On 4 March 2022, the nuclear and thermal power stations were both captured by Russian forces during the Battle of Enerhodar of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. As of 12 March 2022 the plant was controlled by the Russian company Rosatom. Since its capture, the plant does not generate power and is mostly shut down.
As to this attack - "The plant remains close to the front lines, and both Ukraine and Russia have repeatedly accused the other of attacking the plant and so risking a possible nuclear disaster."
Can someone explain how something "mostly shut down" can also be a risk of nuclear disaster? I feel this is where we need someone knowledgeable in the mechanics of atomic energy to explain how those apparently contradictory aspects can work? Surely if the thing's mostly shut down the risk is low?
You'd imagine this sh it would be a red line in any war. I mean for christs sake it's a nuclear reactor closed or not im sure there is still extremely dangerous nuclear substances at play.
Mostly shut down is not shut down though, so there's always an inherent risk of a runaway reaction.
Aside from that, there's cooling ponds with thousands of tonnes of spend fuel rods. It wouldn't be ideal for them to be exposed to the air and/or explosives.
@pixelburp Answers for you in this article. In a word or two, threat is low as this NPP and its reactors are seriously built, not like Chernobyl. To sabotage it you would need to "blow it up right from the inside and guard it to make sure that no one can do anything about it for a couple of weeks and the fuel builds up and then explodes."
Like I said earlier I have noted the head of IAEA - Grossie - tends to be on the hysterical side, prone too.
I really dont think that plant is under threat active or not UNLESS serious bunker busting munitions are used to get through serious amounts of concrete.
If you want a HOWEVER .. here is another recent article which also involves that blown up dam and issues there in re cooling the ZNPP.
The plant doesn’t need the massive amount of water it otherwise would because its six reactors are in cold shutdown. But the plant still needs water for three purposes: to reduce the residual heat from the shutdown reactors, to cool the spent fuel, and to cool the emergency diesel generators if the plant loses off-site power.
Also in this article further down are sections that maybe of interest .. eg
What does it mean to have a nuclear reactor in cold shutdown? How does being in cold shutdown improve the plant’s safety?
This should be MASSIVE news .. Will it be?
@RepMikeTurner tells me it's "absolutely true" that Russian propaganda has "infected" a portion of the GOP base, calling out "anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia messages, some of which we even hear being uttered on the House floor."
Significant Russian armour losses around the village of Terny in the Donetsk region.
Nuclear fuel is not the same as nuclear weapon grade fissile material. It is not at a concentration enough to cause a nuclear explosion. Instead nuclear reactors go into a state of meltdown if they lose all control mechanisms. Meltdown does risk structural failure were highly radioactive material could enter the environment.
it feels like they have infinite tanks…,
Sorry for the Daily Mail link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13247077/Ukraine-destroys-rare-Russian-armoured-vehicle.html
You don't deploy a 1970's command vehicle if you have more modern vehicles.
They're getting less infinite as time goes by…
No expert of course, but (excluding deliberate sabotage) don't think it is that much of a problem unless:
It'd just be better if the Russian military would agree to stay away from it and it is kept out of the fighting as much as possible.
Instead afair (last year?) they were using it as a kind of immune from attack base of operations, but we know they are scumbags that use any tactical advantage they can.
The USSR is sad to have had about 40,000 modern tanks at the end of the Cold war. If you take about half belonged to countries other than Russia that leaves 20,000 then allowing for breakdowns/damage etc. perhaps more than half would still be serviceable or made serviceable? 12,000 left? Of course newer tanks have been made since then..
Not to mention the important factor that not all those remaining tanks can be deployed to the Ukrainian front-lines; Russia still needs to keep a significant number back for "use" across the interior of the country & its borders.
This is part of the fallacy from those who think that Russia can't possibly "run out": they can insofar as we count the reasonable volume of equipment needed to wage a war while also maintaining its own security.
More than 300 terabytes of data were destroyed, the sources said. This included 400 virtual and 42 physical servers that housed internal documents, backup copies, and other programs through which clients remotely managed production at their enterprises, according to the sources.
According to the sources, more than 10,000 entities involved in the Russian military industry stored their data in the targeted cloud service http://OwenCloud.ru.
Can't wait for Turner to march in lockstep with the Q Qlan in a couple of weeks and vote down another aid package for Ukraine. 😒
Warehouse
also not to forget 2 Chechen wars + Osetia/Georgia in before Ukraine war. Those wars also significantly decreased orc tank count.
Good. Keep hitting Russia on its weak points like oil, military infrastructure etc.
The Schweinfurt raids nearly knocked Germany out of the war early (Allies didn't realise how another few would have done this at the time - A Speer) or the attacks on the Radar stations during the battle of Britain (if they persisted the RAF would have been operating blind, the Luftwaffe incorrectly thought that they were easily repairable and not worth repeated attacks)
Russia can be brought down by such tactics..
the water was seen to be flowing in the direction of Ukraine 😂
Not even gonna click on this even to read the comments but I see one of Putin's consistent useful idiots in the West is at it again:
Big chunk of them probably only existed on paper for the last decade or two. Discretely shipped off to a conflict zone in Africa by an enterprising/underpaid Officer or two.
At the beginning of the war a Russian commander discovered that his tanks had no engines (stolen). He committed suicide.
You mean he fell out of a window!
Protestors in Orsk, Russia, chant "Putin is a prick".
Or something like that.
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