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Ukraine nuclear power plant attacked by Russia, worker tells CBS News, as IAEA warns of "close call"
CBS News.com ^ | November 21, 2022 | CHRIS LIVESAY, ERIN LYALL, and TUCKER REALS

Posted on 11/21/2022 4:41:52 AM PST by Timber Rattler

More than a dozen explosions rattled Europe's largest nuclear power plant over the weekend, as renewed shelling around the Ukrainian facility rekindled fears of a possible accident β€” or even a deliberate strike β€” that could cause a catastrophic release of radiation. The shelling around Ukraine's sprawling, Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant came as the head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), warned in a "60 Minutes" interview that "urgent action" was needed to ease the "unprecedented" security threat posed by fighting around the facility.

In an exclusive interview, one of the workers held hostage by the Russian forces who've controlled the plant for months told CBS News the latest shelling had caused serious damage to the plant, and he said it appeared to have been a planned attack on the facility.

He said the angle and direction from which the shells came indicated they were fired from Russian military positions, not Ukrainian forces on the other side of the nearby front lines. The worker, who CBS News cannot identify due to the threat that he and his colleagues have worked under since Russia seized the plant early in its war on Ukraine, said he believed Russian forces had also detonated an explosive inside the facility.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
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The scorched earth strategy is all the war criminal Russians have left as they keep on retreating in Ukraine.
1 posted on 11/21/2022 4:41:52 AM PST by Timber Rattler
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They’re going to shell their own troops how stupid to you think most people are?!


2 posted on 11/21/2022 4:52:26 AM PST by navysealdad (http://drdavehouseoffun.com/)
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To: Timber Rattler

Sure they did Snake. The Ukrainians behind the coup against President Trump and sent a missile into Poland to trigger WW III would never shell their own nuclear power plant.

Deep State neocon hack.


3 posted on 11/21/2022 4:54:45 AM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.c)
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To: navysealdad
Yeah, the Russians are going to shell their own troops, and try to breach the radioactive spent fuel storage pools around one of Europe's biggest nuclear reactors.

The UkroNazis lie all the time, it's what they do, it's S.O.P.


4 posted on 11/21/2022 4:56:57 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Things like this are why I'm skeptical of depending on nuclear power in the U.S. I like nuclear power. But it's too easy for the left to create scare stories about nuclear power if they're so easily able to convince their cult followers about the "dangers" of fossil fuels.

Instead of trying to win the left's energy propaganda battle by picking a fuel they like, which for now is nuclear power but that will change as quickly as they turned on what they used to call "clean burning" natural gas. We should instead try to win the argument by saying their propaganda is hogwash no matter which fuel they're attacking.

5 posted on 11/21/2022 4:59:58 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Likely ukie shelling


6 posted on 11/21/2022 5:01:44 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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Sorry, the Ukes did it and they failed once again.

Such scum, trying to cause a nuke incident in their own country so they can get people from other countries killed.

Low lifes.


7 posted on 11/21/2022 5:02:34 AM PST by dforest
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To: WMarshal

Belligerants do false flag attacks because very often they work, often with spectacular results.

A prime example: The bloody 1995 market attack in Sarajevo, blamed on Serbs, but carried out by Bosnians themselves, led directly to a massive NATO bombing campaign against Serbia.

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/who-was-responsible-for-the-market-place-massacres-in-sarajevo/

“There were three attacks on the markets, all of which were blamed on them: the first on 27th May 1992, killed 16 people, the second on 5th February 1994 killed 68, and the third on 28th August 1995, killed 37. The last attack is the most significant, as it has been widely alleged, by members of the UN Mission in Bosnia, UN Commanding officers and of course, predictably, the Bosnian Serbs themselves, that this one in particular was staged by elements within the Bosnian government to provide the pretext for NATO military involvement in the war. In subsequent attacks, bombs and bullets used by the NATO jets used Depleted Uranium (DU) which is now estimated to have claimed the lives of some Serb 300 civilians who lived in the vicinity of the bases hit by NATO, according to reports that surfaced in 2001. What evidence is there for the claims that the Bosnian government carried out these attacks?”
much more at link.


8 posted on 11/21/2022 5:05:20 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: WMarshal

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https://youtu.be/HMHBsHtolCA


9 posted on 11/21/2022 5:09:09 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Termite Babbler, lol

So much bs


10 posted on 11/21/2022 5:11:47 AM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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11 posted on 11/21/2022 5:13:59 AM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Timber Rattler

12 posted on 11/21/2022 5:14:45 AM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: csvset

13 posted on 11/21/2022 5:15:03 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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war criminal Russians

Wasn't it Biden who waved Putin into the Ukraine when he ok'd a "minor incursion" by Russia?

14 posted on 11/21/2022 5:18:07 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: csvset

AK is sooooo stupid LOL πŸ˜‚πŸ˜†πŸ€£πŸ€£πŸ€£


15 posted on 11/21/2022 5:19:02 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: navysealdad

“They’re going to shell their own troops how stupid to you think most people are?!”

Have you seen any evidence in this war that Putin cares about the lives of his own troops? He will discard them for any victory, even a propaganda one.


16 posted on 11/21/2022 5:19:41 AM PST by Renfrew
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UkraineWar [ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 270 (20/11): Ukrainian counteroffensive in South Donetsk & Velyka Novosilka

At the 2 minute mark, he describes the Ukrainian attacks on the power plant.

17 posted on 11/21/2022 5:22:59 AM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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Another way to make a nuclear strike without using nuclear weapons. Russia gets some major damage with nuclear radiation and no one can say they used a nuclear bomb or rocket.


18 posted on 11/21/2022 5:24:46 AM PST by Flint
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To: WMarshal

Right? I suppose the reports of uke shelling the power plant are the true propaganda. /s

Not the first time the ukes have made stupid claims.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/07/ukraine-accused-nuclear-terror-russia-of-shelling-power-plant/


19 posted on 11/21/2022 5:25:12 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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He said the angle and direction from which the shells came indicated they were fired from Russian military positions

So one working's speculation is proof to 60 Minutes?

20 posted on 11/21/2022 5:27:01 AM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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