Russia & Ukraine

Discussion in 'Politics' started by UsualName, Jan 18, 2022.

  1. virtusa

    virtusa

    Remake of famous Russian move with Loekasjenko, Lavrov, Yanukovich, Putin, Kirilly, Medvedev and other "actors".
     
    #6761     Aug 20, 2022
  2. UsualName

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    #6762     Aug 20, 2022
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  3. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    EDGE OF DISASTER
    Russia ‘moves military equipment into Europe’s biggest nuke power plant’ amid fears Putin will launch false flag attack
    https://www.the-sun.com/news/6040535/russia-military-equipment-nuke-power-plant/

    RUSSIA is believed to have moved military equipment into Europe's biggest nuclear station sparking fears of a false flag attack, according to Canadian intelligence.

    Authorities in Ukraine are preparing for a Chernobyl-like disaster at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia site as the station lies on a knife-edge.

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    Footage shows Russian trucks inside the plant

    According to analysis from Canadian Forces Intelligence Command, Moscow has pumped military equipment into the site, including close to reactor buildings and other key plots.

    It comes after separate video emerged online showing Russian military vehicles, including one marked up with the pro-war "Z" symbol, inside a turbine hall connected to a nuke reactor.

    A number of pallets could also be seen close to the trucks, though it is unclear when the footage, verified by CNN, was taken.

    But Russia previously insisted the only military equipment at the plant is related to guard duties.

    The world is now staring down the barrel of another radiation nightmare amid fears Putin will launch a false flag attempt.

    Ukraine has run nuclear accident drills in the bombed out city of Zaporizhzhia - the closest to the Russian occupied plant.

    A terrifying map has revealed leaks from the power station could spread hundreds of miles and affect 13 different countries.

    Russia's own Ministry of Defence warned this week of a potential accident which could send radioactive waste as far as Germany.

    It claimed that the plant's backup system was damaged, but blamed Ukrainian forces for nearby missile strikes.

    Ukraine has claimed a nuclear catastrophe could take place at Zaporizhzhia, with the country's president Volodymyr Zelensky saying his scientists are in "constant touch" with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

    The plant has been in the hands of Putin's forces since the early stages of the Ukraine war, but nuclear inspectors say they have not been permitted inside.

    In March, Ukraine warned of a nuclear disaster "ten times larger than Chernobyl" after Russian forces shelled the plant from the nearby city of Enerhodar.

    The Chernobyl nuclear leak in 1986 was the worst man-made disaster in history, contaminating 150,000 square kilometres of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.

    Radiation was detected as far away as the north of Scotland, with rain bringing the highest doses to Cumbria in northern England and the Welsh counties of Clwyd and Gwynedd.

    Fears are growing of a potential "provocation" attack on the Zaporizhzhia plant today after Russia reportedly ordered its staff not to show up for work on Friday.

    Around 500 Russian troops from the Rosgvardia, Putin's personal guard, are currently stationed at the plant, along with some 20 Kremlin nuclear specialists.


    Several hundred Ukrainian employees are also still working at the plant.

    Ukraine's military intelligence has warned of the added dangers posed by the huge amount of Russian weaponry currently being stored at the nuclear plant.

    Drone footage released by Ukraine shows Russian armoured fighting vehicles and ammunition trucks being moved into the reactor turbine halls, in an apparent attempt to use them as a shield.

    Russia has already threatened to shut down the plant - which provides electricity to Europe - putting millions in the surrounding area at risk of power cuts as it deploys heavy weapons to the site.
     
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  4. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    If the assigned tasks of the Russian Black Sea Fleet include Blowing Up and Sinking... then I guess the Russian fleet is being successful in completing its assigned tasks.

    Russia's Black Sea Fleet 'completing' its tasks, TASS quotes commander as saying
    https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...successfully-completing-its-tasks-2022-08-19/

    Russia's Black Sea Fleet is set to receive 12 new vessels alongside additional aviation and land-based vehicles in 2022, newly appointed commander Vice Admiral Viktor Sokolov said on Friday, state-owned TASS news agency reported.

    "The Black Sea Fleet is participating in the special military operation, and is successfully completing all the tasks set for it," TASS quote him as telling a group of young officers.

    State-owned news agency RIA said on Wednesday that Sokolov had been appointed head of the Black Sea Fleet. He replaced Igor Osipov, its head since 2019, after a series of setbacks. The week before, blasts at an airbase in Crimea destroyed much of one of the fleet's air regiments.

    In April, the fleet's flagship, the cruiser Moskva, was sunk in what Ukraine's Defence Ministry said was a missile strike. Two months later, the Black Sea Fleet withdrew from strategically vital Snake Island, near the Ukrainian port of Odesa.

    Russia refers to its military campaign in Ukraine as a "special military operation", aimed at demilitarising and "denazifying" Ukraine. Both Kyiv and Western governments say that is a pretext for an imperial-style war of conquest.
     
    #6764     Aug 20, 2022
  5. Putin and his cronies and Russian TV are having a lot of fun pointing out how that radiation is/will be a threat to western Europe.

    Let's see now. A threat to NATO countries. Might want to think that through. A case could be made for NATO taking control of a safety zone.

    I don't want to go there, so Vlad, you don't go there.
     
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  6. They have moved the best of their fleet off into the Sea of Azov, leaving "not much" at Sevastopol. So they are sending a fleet of shit-ships there to backfill. And the shit-ships will be used as cannon fodder if they try again for Odessa. The best of their fleet will stand further offshore to prevent re-occurrences of people smoking on board ship. Smoking is okay on the third tier ships.

    Their subs and high-end warships in the fleet are being equipped with hypersonic missiles and other zippy stuff for the attack on Odessa- which they had to retreat from. They cannot afford to lose those ships to some low level drone or old school missile from the shore. They are having trouble figuring out what the Ukrainians have. I think the Ukrainians are too. Stuff is coming in from so many different countries. Sometimes it takes the Ukrainians weeks to figure out how to use it. In other instances, they have been off training in the giving country for weeks before it is sent and hit the ground running on day one.
     
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    #6768     Aug 20, 2022
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  10. virtusa

    virtusa

    #6770     Aug 20, 2022