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The Prime Minister said the reckless actions of President Putin could now directly threaten the safety of all of Europe
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@BorisJohnson
spoke with
@ZelenskyyUa
about the gravely concerning situation at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station.
The Brits say in a readout: The Prime Minister said the reckless actions of President Putin could now directly threaten the safety of all of Europe.
Link to tweet
In an update posted to Twitter, US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said:
We have seen no elevated radiation readings near the facility.
The plants reactors are protected by robust containment structures and reactors are being safely shut down.
Ukrainian emergency services have confirmed a fire in the training building of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant has been localised just before 6am local time.
Will NATO see this as a threat to NATO countries?
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)Enough already.
Karadeniz
(22,572 posts)58Sunliner
(4,398 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)a fire
14m ago
03:22
A fire is reportedly still burning in Europes largest nuclear power plant located in Zaporizhzhia.
Andriy Tuz, a spokesperson for the plant appeared on Telegram saying, There is a real threat of a nuclear danger at the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe. We demand that they stop the heavy weapons fire at the energy blocks of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Authorities at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant say the facility is secured and nuclear safety is now guaranteed after Russian military shelling starts fire, Agence France-Presse reports.
The agency said that one of the buildings of the plants training complex continues to burn, adding that the fire covered 3, 4, 5 floors of a five-storey building.
Ukrainian emergency services are saying Russian troops are preventing them from extinguishing a fire that continues to burn at a nuclear power plant after it was struck by shelling.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,649 posts)His recent actions, miscalculated or not, have brought discredit, dishonor, and impending financial ruin to Russia. If he doesn't see himself as the ruler of Russia, as the one recreating the Soviet Union's borders, then he has no use for the world and anyone in it.
He's a sociopath like Stewart Rhodes of the Oath keepers. They both see themselves as crucial figures in history, on a mission to recreate the past.
His goal as the new Czar or head of the Politburo is what matters. He's irrational and unpredictable. There are no safeguards on decisions that he might make, no command structure similar to ours in the US. He's a one man show.
A confrontation with NATO, even if it's the product of his actions, will give him the opportunity to avoid the humiliation that awaits him if the world doesn't bend to his will. He will destroy everything.
I'm sorry to be pessimistic. I hope some brave person puts Putin out of our misery soon so we can restart things from a reasonable starting point.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)LastDemocratInSC
(3,649 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)LastDemocratInSC
(3,649 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)being the newest I have owned.
radius777
(3,635 posts)It will hurt but we can ramp up production in the US and Canada as well as lift the Venezuelan sanctions. There are ways to make up at least some of the lost supply. Alternative energy. We must do whatever it takes, even if it means sacrifice, to destroy the Putin regime. We have entered wartime even if some fail to realize this.